3A my network

through this course i have become more awear of my network and allot of it does involve Web 2.O. when we first started blogging about Web 2.0 i blogged Do our lives evolve around the web to much. But coming to the end of this term i reflected on that blogg and wrote a short reflection about it.

i didn't relies what my network actually consisted of in till i sat down and drew it out



After looking at the diagram i had produced i drew another one up of how i would like to expand my network.



i feel that twitter is a good way to expand as i can then follow casting directors and choreographers as they my tweet about auditions i may not know about.

i feel that no ones network is ever complete you can always widen your horizons.

3B..... Affiliation

After reading the course read several time to try and understand it I finally clicked about one principle .
what I understood about affiliation was that:
Affiliation is the state of being associated. Its an agreement between two inderpentants inderviduals that diffines how they will relate to one another.
The reader explores how us as human beings benift from affiliation and how in a network we gain relationships.

In the performing world you can't have a dance company that doesn't get on collectively. It doesn't matter weather you don't get on personally but with out affiliation there won't be a satisfactory end product or show. You have to work in a team what ever profession you are in. If we didn't co-operate with each other there wouldn't be affiliation.
Co- operation is a big part in a network. Axelrod's explain included the thought of its Tit fot Tat. Which I find very true. Why should you co-operate with someone who doesn't co-operate back. This is a view a director can take as there are plenty of other people who would love the job you may have so you have to co-operate even if you don't gett on personally you have to have affiliation.
I found the principles co-opperation and affiliation the easiest to understand as the go hand in hand.

Intended pathway...

It wasn't until after my phone call with Paula Nottingham that I relished I had never posted about what my ambitions are. I had only ever posted about when I'm older what I want to do.
I would love to travel the world and dance so the best way is a cruise ship. I would love to work on the cruise ship. I think it would be an amazing experience and great learning curve.

task 3C the importance of the source.

information souses play a HUGH part not only in our profession but in everyone's life's.
if we didn't have sources we wouldn't learn facts it would all just be knowledge from what people have said, and how would you know if any of it was true. it could just end up as one big Chinese whispers. before starting the course if someone had asked my what were my 5 main sources of information i would of said i don't know. since starting the course i have learnt so much about i i use the web and other sources. i had been using them all along but never had acknowledged it.

my 5 main sources are: Google, Books, People, my ipad and ipod, and also facebook.

Google
i would say google is my main source, a bit of an addiction in a way. i use google every day to update myself and calender of auditions that are upcoming. i also use google to update my image. in other words online shopping, i like to see whats in fashion.
 i also use google to research things that i query in the day. or if i want to learn about something i didn't understand. i use it allot for my BAPP course. I'm not the cleverest person so i use it to research about the subject.

Books
Even though there is information available on google i still like to go to the library and borrow a book. as i find there is more in depth information in a book.

People
even though you cant rely on what people say all the time, i find that they hold some us full information. for example: old friends from college may know about auditions you don't and you get informed by them.... job opportunity.
also its about who you know in this indersty , so knowing the right people will get you the right information.

Ipad/Ipod
like on liam's blogg i also use my ipad and ipod. i use it to download free music, books ect
i use them to access google and facebook etc. my main app i use is "The Stage" which cost me £1.99 and i think its amazing. i get all the auditions on my ipad which i use every day.

Facebook
facebook is probably my second main source of information. i don't go on facebook as much as i used to i feel i don't use it for social reasons as much any more i use it for following casting groups such as, spotlight, Debbie O'Brian and dance cast. i feel i need to widen my horizons and open a twitter account to follow casting directors and choreographers.

i think my 5 main sources are import in my life and carear path as they open up opotunies to gain jobs.
other souses i use: calander, my phone (my contacts), my dairy and journal.