WORK EXPERIENCE: CREATIVE STIRLING

WHY I CHOSE TO DO MY WORK EXPERIENCE HERE

When I was looking for places to do work experience, I was prioritising creative outlets to further my skills for school and personal life. At first I wasn’t sure about what Creative Stirling was about but after researching more about it I knew I had to ask about their work experience opportunities.

I was over the moon when they said I could do my work experience for the 3 months, which worked out perfectly for me. One of the first things I did when coming here was helping Sam come up with ideas for a community website: coming up with mockups, logos, etc. It really helped my design skills as I had to learn what makes a good website, like: what should be the colour palette for the website, what should be included and the best layout. It did take me a while to get things going but now things are progressing at a good rate! 

The website that I've been making will be a project that will be youth led, by youths for youths (Creative Youth Assembly.) The first session is going to be about film and media which I'm looking forward to. I will be making more things for the website to give it its own style/individuality. Hopefully if this project goes well I wish to incorporate community works into the website as well to show what CYA is doing. 

I have also been doing other things while here as well, helping out with installing two exhibitions: “The World Made Me Dotty” exhibition, where I helped make the giant beach balls for it, and the “The Stirling Pioneers: Filmmakers Who Changed the World” exhibition where I helped to do the lettering on the wall for it, along with cleaning! 

One of the other things that I have done is learnt how to screenprint with Sam to test the quality of the materials which turned out amazingly! I’ve also been researching different social media so they can choose the right one for them, and helping them learn about discord.

- Dream Hutchison