Work Experience Day 3

For this day of experience, I once again ran the Marjon university’s Snapchat account for the day. It was International Women’s Day, and the university hosted a conference full of speakers and discussions. As well as attending, I took pictures of speakers throughout the day with captions, and I also did short video snippets of various talks.

To avoid interruptingĀ  the speakers, I sat right in the middle of the room to get a good camera shot. This was also so I could see everything without having to move or get up and walk around. This would give the students viewing the snaps a better view.
Because of the audience – Marketing have explained that the main audience of the Snapchat is mainly current students – I tried to keep the captions relevant and interesting, using some of the filters Snapchat offers and coloured writing instead of black. Because it is student centred, tried to keep it informal. My usual writing style is naturally very informal anyway, so this was easy.

There was a part of the day where a political candidate for the Labour party came in to talk about women in politics. I was nervous when putting this on Snapchat, because I was aware that I was running an official account for the university and you have to be careful about things like that. Though, since there was no one from another party there, I had to put it up anyway. I wouldn’t say it affected how I described her talk, I was just aware that it was something I probably should be careful of.

While I did upload to the Snapchat account for the day, in terms of what I got out of it, there wasn’t much. The talks throughout the day distracted me a bit, so the social media stuff was more of an afterthought, something I was doing because I was already there. Looking back, I could have gotten a quick one minute interview with some of the speakers, or asked them to pose for photos or something extra, to make the Snapchat more interesting, but also to use other skills that aren’t just taking photos on an iPod.