Proposal Pack Submission. CHECK.

My proposal pack in terms of submission for the Practice and Placement Module is finished.. and submitted.  (Insert happy noises of your choice here)

This has been a challenging exercise in terms of presentation.  Actually planning out a proposal before having a conversation with my placement contact has been really useful because now I'm prepared for the next stage of arrangements.  The arrangements that I'm actually working towards are much more tangible now.  I have expectations of what I'd be doing with my time and what outcomes there will be at the end of the placement, and having a CV and Mini-folio feels like I have the right tools in my kit.

It was a little strange because you're basing the proposal on an outcome that you're hopeful will materialise but aware that a conversation could change the proposal.  I guess this is the real world, in the same way that you plan to curate work in exhibition that you're still developing.  

But ..back to the presentation.  It feels like I spent more time formatting the pack than working on it.  That can't be the case, but I definitely underestimated how long it would take to merge PDF's and keep the structure of my documents intact.  Pointer:  If you have Creative Cloud, Adobe will merge your PDF's as will lots of other software available online. I'm really appreciative of the amazing people on my course for pointing this out -  after I had a moment where I thought I was going to have to recreate some content.  All of my documents except the mini folio were portrait on Word, but the mini folio was landscape on Powerpoint. This module has defiantly brought us students on the degree together in terms of support.  I've extended help to people around how to reframe what the have in their mind into a proposal, and honestly, they've kept me sane with new software and formatting that you just don't have to do all the time, so is less familiar.

General troubleshooting like adding page numbers that rolled in the right order across separate documents before merging tested me on this module.  I think this was compounded by the type of laptop that I use and working between cloud hosted and downloaded documents.  Mental note; make time for the little things,  Sometimes, they're not that small. 

Images below: 

1. Cover Letter
2. Mini-folio slides
3. Artist CV
4. Proposal letter

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