Archive for September, 2010

by Katherine Yasi, Public Relations Specialist/Intern 365 Degrees Consulting

Gunner the Weimaraner

These last couple months of summer I have been interning with Angela at 365 Degrees Consulting as Public Relations Specialist.   So far we’ve worked on a few projects and I’ve been able to attend a few of her seminars – which have been awesome for helping me come up with a personal brand and a vision for my future! The last project I worked on was editing and putting together a promotional video clip for the Women Business Owner’s Alliance for their annual Women’s Night of Comedy.

As editor of the video, I was able to choose, rearrange, add, and delete and I had full creative power to adjust the video however I saw fit.  I chose the music, added titles, and chose pictures that represented the event and would be appealing to the viewers.  As I sat there (with two adorable Weimaraners at my feet!) dragging pictures and video clips from folder to folder on the computer and then selecting the best pictures and cutting out the extraneous footage that would not be effective in the video an idea popped into my head. What if people could begin to see themselves as the Creative Directors or Editors in their own lives?  I know a lot of people who choose to see themselves as passengers in the journey of life and go on with their lives as such. They go to school for 12 years, go to college because they are told they should, get a boring but well-paying job, basically they choose to do things “by the book” so to speak.

My question to these people is: are you happy doing this? Read the rest of this entry »