Work Experience - Studios Contacted

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KesselsKramer

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From the branding and the identity of the agency as a whole, it was evident that they had a theme of horses running through, I utilised this to be able to make myself stand out against the crowd, of e-mails they are more than likely to be receiving every day regarding placements. 
Through using horse specific language and even quoting the laws of riding horses in the area of the office, claiming that that may have been a better way to introduce myself, I was able to make a unique email. 
Unfortunately, the company did not reply, I followed up with a phone call but no one would speak to me regarding placement, overall the gamble did not pay off. 

Foundry Studio 

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Once again I attempted to use a point of difference to make myself stand out, the studio I was contacting specialised in design for retail industry purposes, something which I have a lot of experience in and thought would make me stand in out in terms of having a great knowledge of both ends of the industry of his business. 
I began the e-mail with hey neighbour due to the fact that my partner lives on the same road as the studio in London, therefore I thought this would also highlight the e-mail as something different. Unfortunately, I did not recieve a reply, and I followed up the e-mail with a phone call, to which the senior director abruptly answered and told me he had seen the e-mail and would get back to me if he had a chance. This put me off instantly due to the fact that he was rude in his mannerisms with the way he was speaking to me on the phone, and also hung up at the end, making me question whether or not I even wanted to continue talking with the studio.
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Playground Studio

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This studio I contacted before to be able to get some feedback on some work I had completed in a previous year, due to the fact that I felt the studio would be able to relate to because of the style of the work. I never received a reply, although had been followed by the studio on my Instagram, therefore I decided to try again. 

In the e-mail, I decided to make reference to the contact I had previously tried to have with them in hope of them seeing I was persistent in making contact and want to reply. 

Unfortunately, I did not recieve a reply. 

Agency Deep

Due to the fact that I had not had any luck with e-mails being sent out, I decided to call this agency to be able to speak to someone regarding placement. Through directly asking about placements it allowed the company less of an opportunity to be able to avoid the direct question.

I was able to speak to someone regarding placements although she was not part of the creative team, she gave me the email address of the person who would be relevant to therefore a central email regarding the placement of can be similar. Unfortunately, once again I did not receive a reply I rang up to be able to follow up but was told there was no room unfortunately and that's why did not receive a reply.

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Objektiv

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Due to the fact that I have slightly more success through calling the previous agency I decided to also ring up objecktiv as it was quite a small agency was able to actually speak to one of the directors. On the phone explained that they didn't really do work experience placements but liked the sound of my portfolio and therefore as me to send out my portfolio with the CV as can be seen above.

I did get a reply although I was declined from the opportunity of an internship partially because of the commitments outside the studio they would not be that actually guide me with my work.

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Magpie Studio

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Magpie studio was the one which I was most nervous about contacting due to the fact that it was the largest studio and also the most famous out of all of the ones I reached out to. Therefore, I decided to title the tighter the subject as if I was just saying hello, and then follow want actually as replacement directly. The email was actually replied to telling me that they did not have any opportunity at the moment but really enjoyed some of the recent work I had done, and therefore would keep my portfolio on file in case anything crops up.

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