Work Experience hit Camper&Bus

As part of a long term training program VolksWorld (and IPC Media) have commited to helping a team of students once a year to get into magazine design

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Catia's blog: Year 11 student work placement at VolksWorld and Camper&Bus Magazine

First day at VolksWorld scary!!
Everyone is busy concentrating, everything is new, the people, the place but especially the people, well lucky me I still got Yav and I'm not all alone on this big building full of busy people in busy offices with busy key boards and mouses clicking and typing away.
Neil comes and pick us up at the reception looks friendly, then we get set into our desks (for a week) and crack on with a double page spread- easy peasy. Its all a bit different than what I expected, I thought it would be very loud and with lots of grumpy busy people but actually it was'nt like that at all - By the end of the day feeling a bit more confident.

My volksWorld cover

Second day: Now know where to go and sort of know the people, we get on with making herbie [the car] move, now that's a challenge, cutting out the curvy back window. Then with the final piece done, we got set to do 6 cover pages with the same picture to try out different designs.

Then they told us that today we would be making our blog, and a blog needs pictures, so they gave us a camera BIG MISTAKE!!
Well, at the start we took decent pictures from our work but then we couldn't find anything else, so we decided to take pictures of the people working around us, and when someone didn't volunteer I would seek behind him, poke him and make a scary face [well I tried] while Yav would be in the other side taking the picture!

New volkswagen Ponchos 

And no that's not what we wore for work experience, they asked if we wanted to model it for a product shoot. Naturally we were not sure about it.

 Big boss man

That's Neil, he always helped us with our work.

 MiniWorld office

And that's serious Harry (foreground), he also helped us with what to do.

Bye, and Thanks for the fun time VolksWorld;

Catia Alexandre :-)

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