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Mentors: Mentors are people too. They have schedules and projects they are working on at the same time as helping you, and they still want to give you the best advice and opinions you most desperately need and want. And sometimes, you may not get the mentor you specifically wanted; but that doesn’t mean they won’t guide you to different opportunities if they work alongside them. So, the best start would be researching your mentor, learn about them, and the connections they work with to get the best experience from your mentor. It might not be something you want to focus on; but there’s no harm in getting work experience.  Make sure to always be persistent with them, and don’t be afraid to inform them what sort of career and pathway you want to focus on. And don’t be afraid to find your own connections. Don’t exclude yourself just because you have a mentor, because a mentor won’t always find you a job right away or find the perfect experience you are looking for; always give yourself more options and locate them. If you really want that career, you need to trust yourself to make the right decisions and put yourself out there. Starting your new job: The atmosphere will be ten times different to what you will be used to from work experience or in media courses. And then nervousness and worrying if you’re right for the job, will affect you at times. But stay confident. It’s a good thing you are feeling worried, and actually nervous and excited are exactly the same, you just need to turn that negatively into positively and there’s a lot of ways how.  It’s best to realise that the company has chosen you, over all those hundreds of people who applied as well, and you start to realise the company is confident in you and your skills and it’s about time you start to believe in yourself as well. It never hurts to ask questions and it’s a lot better to ask them now, rather than it causing you problems in the future. But it also shows how much you want to learn and improve. You are always learning, and can bring those new skills and new ways of thinking to your career. Do not take things personally when people may push down ideas or shout at you. The real world is scary, and you need to take what they say literally. It’s just business. You can always comunnicate with them to work situations out and understand them better. Communication: Communication is a highly important factor in the media and film business. So to make things work well in the industry, you need to always question things. Be persistant if things aren’t working out as planned, do not take no for an answer and try adn work things out so you have exhausted all your opinions to make something work. It shows how much you have tried and how you think outside the box so things can go to plan smoothly. 

This is my cultrual tribe video~ It was fun working on this, from filming to editing it. Though, the editing websites did prove to be irritating and challenging to edit my sound and film together, so I did have to get a friend to help me a little bit.