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Hippfest - Main Skills I Gained/Developed! - Coggle Diagram

- - - - Nevertheless, I do enjoy the process of researching and then creating different content for online platforms - especially for Hippfest, as it was such a unique festival to be a part of and the community spirit that is a main component of the festival created an environment that I wanted to help share - As such, as the festival went on I learned that building the confidence to just continuously practice creative thinking in my approach to content, removing some of the pressure around whether it would work or not, really helped me to begin gathering some better content. Or being a part of designing and brainstorming ideas, even if I was personally not always able to complete them entirely myself.
    - - In order to achieve this I have set myself some informal aims: To spend more time brainstorming creative ideas, to make videos and content for my own social media which I enjoy with minimal pressure, to ensure that I am taking the time to regularly attend and engage with creative events in order to experience and see what others are doing - My aim in doing all of these is to hopefully help myself gain better confidence in my own creative abilities and how I am able to utilise them within my career development.
  - - - I looked into the idea whilst working on other priorities and then checked in with the festival team to ensure the plan was suitable for them before giving it the go-ahead.
- - - - Formal: Meeting and greeting guest performers and speakers - helping to look after them throughout their stay by accompanying them to different venues, getting them tea/coffee/food, organising and then providing them with their personalised guest schedule, pass and gift bag. Greeting and mingling with guests at the various events, welcoming them to the festival, giving advice, running the festival hub Being a point of contact for volunteers - welcoming them to the festival hub at the beginning of their shift. Speaking with guests/volunteers post screenings/events to encourage them to be part of the festival's press coverage and media content, and leasing with local business owners for their contribution to the festival/being part of content (whilst this was not necessarily a specific requirement, the less formal situations that I networked and socialised within really helped to build relationships and trust with many of these elements, making it easier to encourage people to be comfortable when contributing to the festival's online content and press)
        
        This is an element of networking/socialising that I had not previously considered would be an outcome, and it is a piece of knowledge and experience I will as a result be carrying on to future opportunities
        
        Informal: Getting to know the different members of the festival team I was working with - this allowed me to ask for their advice regarding different opportunities and methods of advancing my career and skillset, as well as, providing me the opportunity to make an impression and gain new opportunities to work with them again in the future. Meeting with guests and audience members at the hotel during breakfast and drinks after the festival allowed me to learn much about the industry and specifically the silent film festival circuit from those who are currently the main drivers of it; it allowed me to make connections and get to know people, again providing multiple opportunities for my own career advancement - most notably that of a reccommendation that I apply for the Collegium Programme at the Italian Silent Film Festival, Pordenoe
        
        I have come away from Hippfest far more confident in my ability to network and socialise as part of my career progression than I ever was going into it. And it has helped me to learn that it is important (for me at least) to approach it as a skill which needs to be maintained in practice to allow that confidence to remain steady throughout various future opportunities.
- - - - Without this boost of confidence and self-reassurance, I know in myself that I would struggle with the stresses and hurdles which will inevitably arise from pursuing future opportunities within the film exhibition sector, and without that the other skills which I have developed throughout my work placement would not be as impactful as they could be.