Networking

The room I work is hired by multiple companies;  my manager mentioned that one of the companies were hosting an creative event with music and free wine, to promote their services. I believed that this was my chance to go and network with people in the creative industry. Luckily my flatmates wanted to come so I wasn't alone; even though we arrived an 1 hour late we where early (Spanish timing). Observing the event the layout was beautiful, they used their all white studio that had a beautiful view of the streets. The DJ in the back of the room had a projector displaying black and white moving images behind, looked really cool. We were given free wine, I guess to set the relaxed mood as well as 2 dogs playful around. They were spoiled because everyone was stroking them and they were friends. I love dogs, also I thought this would never happen in England.

My friend suggested we go into a room showing short videos. That's when I know I had to met the person in charge; I did my research before hand to which I discovered it was film production company named Minded Factory. But after the short videos I want to see if I could gain some experience with them, because I want to go into the film production industry. I was talking to a girl who was watching the dogs and she told me that she was friends with one of CEOs, so I asked if she could introduce me. Putting my networking skills to work, she gave me her details and said I should forward her my portfolio. That was the first time I had ever networking on a professional level, I was so proud of myself. Gaining more confidence I started to network with the other people in the event, interestingly there's a lot of Swedish people in Barcelona.

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