Sidenote from My meeting with Duncan from Disney

After I had finished interviewing Duncan about his job, we discussed the kind of career path I wanted to take  and my interest in animation and illustraton and after being apologetic about not being able to offer me some shadowing time in the next few weeks Duncan suggested a few people he knows which may be good contacts for me and gave me his personal number so we can discuss further and maybe meet up with some of his contacts in film and animation in the coming months.

Design

After talking to my dad about my interest in design he told me that his friend Duncan worked in design for Disney, so with Duncan's permission my dad gave me his email. We have corresponded a few times and he has agreed to meet me for an informal interview. He is an online creative manager for Disney, I plan to ask him some questions about his role, what it entails and his career path etc. We are going to meet up for a drink instead of making a skype call as I feel it will feel more personal and I will be able to get more of a clear feel about how he feels about the job he has and I feel like I will be able to create more follow up questions.

Here are the Questions I have prepared for our interview.

1)    What key duties and tasks does your role involve

2)    Does your role require any qualifications? If so what?

3)    What path did you take to arrive at this role?

4)    Are there opportunities to move forward into a different role?

5)    Do you enjoy what you do?

6)    What advice would you give to someone wanting to get into branding

7)    What drew you to the role?

8)    What would you change about your profession?

9)    Would you consider your job to be fulfilling?

10) What main skills do you need in your role?

I have a recording device I plan to use when interviewing him and I will probably use it to type up a transcript of all the answers, missing out chatter and keeping it concise to the questions

Career paths: Branding/ design/advertising

Another possible career I am interested in is in some kind of branding, advertising and design. The artistic and creative side of this really attracts me and I am also very keen on the psychological theoretical side of this role, thinking about target audience in depth and using this to appeal specifically to social groups. My interests started from being interested in website and t-shirt design and also previously taking up some work experience with an design company called Tin Racer in 2013, where I created my own packaging and product for a company.

I have been in contact with someone who is involved in design and branding for disney and am in the middle of arranging to meet up with him to interview him about his profession. The original aim was to be able to visit his office to get some insight into his day to day schedule but because of his very busy profession, at the moment he is unable to do this. So an interview will suffice for now. I will continue to be consistent in trying to arrange a shadowing day or something to try and see up close the kinds of tasks he takes on a daily basis.