Mook (live post)

Starting today for the next four weeks I will be doing four weeks work experience at Mook.



This post will be updated for the duration of my work experience so that my university tutors can see that im not watching Cash in the Attic and Loose Women all day on TV.



Monday 22nd October 2007

09:16
Arrived at the Mook studios a bit early.

09:30
Met Darren at reception who then showed me my desk space for the next four weeks. I have an iMac and today I also have my own PowerBook. Im hooked up to the WiFi so Web 2.0 is never far away.

09:44
Darren has walked me around the studio and introduced me to the various people that have managed to stumble in after another heavy weekend of booze and probably deadlines. I cant remember anyones names yet, except for one guy called Shane, the introduction was like, "Shane, Shaun, Shaun Shane", lol.

10:34
Got offered tea from a tea pot! I had to decline as im a coffee guy :-s

13:35
A group of us went to Boulevard Deli on the other side of Covent Garden which is a lovely medditerean sandwich shop. Unfortunately my wallet decided to stay in my bag back at Mook!

14:09
Drinking Red Bull

16:01
I now know where the toilets are.

16:17
Ive now got a job which is to source imagery and lay out some rough scenes for an alcohol awareness job.

18:03
That's day one completed! Im off to get the 18:18 train from Charing Cross.


Tuesday 23rd October

09:18
Arrive.

09:32
Launch Facebook.

09:34
Attended a board meeting.

10:44
Finished the meeting. Approximately 60% of the company was there, from the MD, to myself, the intern. It was a meeting which occurs each month where everyone reviews projects, accounts etc. It was well worth being in as I saw a visual structure of the company which helps to understand Mook.

13:16
Going for lunch!

15:35
Given a job to do. The Mars website has some cards, each card has a fact. There's tonnes of cards and tonnes of facts. I had to open the fact documents which the copywriters have created and copy and paste the information into the relevant card which exists as a movie clip inside of various flash files.

15:37
A photography company are showing off there work in the board room and have free tea and cakes from Pauls!

15:55
Finish laying out the copy into the flash documents.



17:42
Been given a task which is to look for an image on two CD's. Sort of like looking for a needle in a bowl of hay.

17:44
Found it. I just previewed the jpgs into a contact sheet in finder, no problem!

18:58
Time to depart the studio.


Wednesday 24th October

09:30
Arrive.

13:32
Enjoy a Chinese in Soho

14:56
Pick up a video camera from Figment editing in Greek Street

18:06
Finish


Thursday 25th October

09:30
Start

10:14
I have been asked to get all of the old Mook projects from the network archive and upload them all to the Mook blog.

13:20
Head down to Broad Court for a spot of lunch.

26th - 29th October
Trip to Bratislava

Wednesday 31st October
Updated the Mook blog.

Thursday 1st November
I put together an email newsletter which shows all of Mooks work up to date.

Friday 2nd November
Amended Mook email.
Batch resized 51 images to two different sizes for the development team.




Shaun