For the past four days, the fatBuzz team have been privileged to have Lex Moore, a fifteen year old pupil from Wellington School, in the office on work experience.
From social media marketing and video production, to web design and development, Lex has been involved in every aspect of the business.
But rather than us telling you what she’s been up to, we thought we would let Lex do the honour.
On the Tuesday when I arrived here, I spent the morning learning about what fatBuzz does and spent time delving further into social media.
After this, I began to write a blog post about a subject I personally like a lot called The Hunger Games. I wrote two separate articles, one about my favourite character, and the other about why I love The Hunger Games so much. (You can read Lex’s blog posts HERE).
It was interesting and I had fun testing myself on how to write in a way suited to the Internet. I enjoyed the writing aspect a lot.
On the Wednesday while I was here, I had the opportunity to go with Malcolm to film a piece of footage for a company and see how the system works. Later in the day, I set up my own blog using WordPress and was able to personalise it by choosing my own theme.
I also looked over coding using CodeAcademy which helped me learn about coding after I had only touched on it at school.
After lunch I also had a look at Photoshop and was able to edit a header for my blog with David. I learned how to use some simple aspects of Photoshop as I had never used it before.
On Thursday, I went over the blog posts I had written two days previously and edited them quickly to fit my blog.
After this I filmed a couple of videos, one being about my time here at fatBuzz, which you can view above. I edited the video after which was fun, and gave me a view on some editing skills and how to make a video look good.
After adding music and photos into the video we uploaded it to Vimeo. Later on in the day, Joanna and I put my previously written posts onto my blog and added hyperlinks for each post.
We certainly hope Lex will be continuing with her blog, because she is a terrific writer with undoubted ability. We have no doubt that she is well on her way to achieving her dreams of being a writer or journalist.
You never know, she might even end up working right here at fatBuzz…