Adorable Anon · 3mo
Re: Internship interview.
I'm rooting for you Ale! ʕっ•ᴥ•ʔっ
Do you know what software they use, so that you can familiarise yourself somewhat with it beforehand? Or, at the very least. Say that you are aware of it. (͠≖ ͜ʖ͠≖)
Even if (and i hope this won't be the case! (≧︿≦) ) They can't find a suitable position for you, don't give up or get demoralised!
And if you get a spot. ( ﾟヮﾟ)/
Be prepared for long hours and hard work, on things you may not feel all that passionate about. = _ =
Like drawing foliage until your wrists hurt. Or animating a wheel on a car that passes by in the background for a couple of seconds and spending days on that! ☉ ‿ ⚆
And some words of advice:
Don't get sad if you end up feeling like no one is willing to sit down with you, and show you their technique. A lot of people are intimidated when it comes to teaching, and it's not you that are a problem! ♥
I've been at internships myself, and had to chase people to get them to teach me things! Or ask them if i could observe. (╯°□°)╯
Sorry if i'm a debbie downer in this post, I do wish you well! ♥
P.s. If you are going to be dealing with HR, look up some common italian HR questions.
So you know what to expect.
Or better yet, look into whether your university has a HR department.
And tell them (Uni HR) about yourself (about anxiety or difficulties with strong emotions.)
And ask if they could find some time (15 minutes or so.)
To do a mock interview, and give you some pointers on what you can improve.
Or what they would be looking for (to figure out about you.) When asking you certain questions.
And if the studio doesn't find a spot for you, and if you dealt with HR there.
You can email them, and ask for feedback on what you could think of in future interviews. Some are happy to help!
P.p.s. This turned into a whole paragraph of it's own. (°^°)/
And i just realised, Friday is upon us already! And you won't have time for uni HR help!
Well .. it's staying in.. (ಥ﹏ಥ)
Sorry for not replying before, I forgot, then I felt too tired, but I made the interview last week and... I GOT ACCEPTED, YES!!!
It isn't about animation specifically, even if the company also works with cartoons, but it's about post-editing and post-production. I used Sony Vegas in the past, but they use DaVinci, but they told me the internship will be mostly theoric and that they'll teach me all the stuff ^^
Also they'll make me join some film festival and they talked about an Italian Pixar animator I could possibly meet, that's SOOOO COOL!!!
Now I'm waiting to receive the schedule, I'll mostly have internship in the morning, I admit I'm very excited about what they'll teach me!! ^^
And, I thank you deeply for all the advices and suggestions, I'll make sure to keep that in mind! I just... hope to not make huge messes there XDDD
Also, I doubt there is a Uni HR department, or at least I've never heard of that. Maybe I should search...
Oooh, also, talking about other news, this week I started lessons! I started following a course about Ancient Greek threatre and specifically Medea by Euripides, a tragedy I wrote a small thesis about as high school finale and that I feel very deeply to me and... OOOOOHHH, I LOVE ANCIENT GREEK LITERATURE SOOO MUCH!!!! I missed it, so I feel a huge joy studying it again! It's mostly a repetition of stuff I know, but there is also some new stuff, it's just so SOOO damn interesting...
And next week I'll start a French language course too, I studied a bit French in middle school and Bachelor, but I wouldn't be able to talk it much XDD
And on Monday I'll have my therapist appointment, I haven't talked with my therapist in a while but I want to talk about all the stuff that happened lately, I'm extremely happy things are turning for the best!!
Extremely sorry for the delay, but don't worry about the paragraph you wrote, I appreciated very very deeply, I wish you an extremely EXTREMELY wonderful and splendid day!!! ^^
