Author: Emmanuel Johnson

Letter to Self III

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Dear Emmanuel,

I hope you are doing well.

I promised to write to you again after completing my undergraduate studies. I am glad to let you know that, despite all the difficulties you faced with your Final Project, you still managed to achieve a 2-1 overall, which was quite good. You also graduated with all of your friends, who were with you during all of the stressful periods of university. That was amazing!

2016 was a life-changing year for you. You finally experienced international research in Milan. This changed your outlook on life and furthermore deepened your desire for further international exposure.

You had some very low moments in the year due to frustrations faced with job seeking, and the depression that followed afterwards.

I’m glad to let you know it was a blessing in disguise, because you learnt to get out of your comfort zone and start to demand more out of life.

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Also, and very importantly, it encouraged you to pursue your Master’s degree in Communication, Culture and Media, with the help of a scholarship from Coventry University. This is a fantastic opportunity for you to construct your reality and mould whatever you desire into existence.

The only thing that matters at this moment is the present. It’s a new chapter with fresh experiences. I look forward to writing to you again next year!

Kind regards,

Emmanuel

 

Breaking out of the Box: My Job-Seeking Experience

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The beautiful illusion of university life clouded my assessment of the future. This led to my not taking job applications as seriously as I should have, from the start. Although I started sending out applications for Media roles in January 2016, I did not give it a lot of attention. This was due to the fact that, I was still studying and had to focus on coursework. Additionally, I felt I had more than enough time to secure a job after the completion of my degree.

Reality started to catch up with me in May 2016 after the completion of my final group presentation in class. I became very focused, all of a sudden, and my determination to secure a full-time Media job tripled! I made a number of applications and finally got a taste of the reality I never really understood. Unsurprisingly to many job seekers, I received no…

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Alienation and Affect in Milan

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Dream Team Takes Milan

As a team, we intended to discover the reality of Fashion and Counterfeit Culture in the city of Milan.

 

 

Check out the film below to find out what we discovered!

 

Directed by Emmanuel Johnson and Shamim Miah

Produced by Dream Team

Cinematography by Shamim Miah, Emmanuel Johnson, Jordan Kelman and Mandeep Sagoo

Edited by Emmanuel Johnson

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I am Emmanuel, and I am the Director and lead Producer of our documentary production. My role involves making sure that our aims are adhered to whilst producing, getting back to the group with ideas, and finally, ensuring that everything goes smoothly on set.

The final documentary shall reflect our research and discovery into desire and counterfeit culture, a visual and audio reflection of the city of Milan, our conversations with participants along the way, and highlights of our journey so far, as a team.

I have documented each production day we have had by writing posts for the documentary section of the blog.

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Milanese Diaries | Day 1

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Our adventure started very early in the morning, we got a cab at 4.15am to the airport, we arrived, checked in our bags and went straight through to departures to grab a bite to eat.

7.00am rolled around so quickly, and we were heading to the gate before we knew it,  we were thankful to be leaving the miserable rain of England behind us.

The plane was very small which was a new experience for some of us, and with a flight time of 1.45hr we barely had time to sleep on the plane. Those who were awake managed to get some great photos of the Alps.

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When we arrived at Milan airport we collected our luggage and faced our first challenge of locating the metro. Soon after we exited the terminal we saw electronic billboards displaying adverts against counterfit products , explaining that you could go to prison, if…

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Milanese Diaries | Day 2

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DSC_2405Day 2 here in Milan started with breakfast and a meeting with the whole team, we used this time to plan today’s agenda.

Alex had organised a friend of his Doris, to come to Milan and act as a translator so that the group could attain some interviews, from passers by in the street. Shay, Emmanuel, Alex , Shamz and Camille met Doris and started approaching people for interviews and attained 6! Including a focus group with fashion students from the local university. The questions involved discussing social media and fashion.

Kate, Jordan, Candy, Coco and Mandeep headed out towards a local market that was five minutes away from the hotel. This was worlds away from Milans main city streets. The streets were filled with stalls selling everything from detergent and clothes to meat and cheese. We noticed that the coats that were for sale were a similar style to…

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