Two young journalist interviewed me a week ago:
· Introducing herself, position, graduation year, field, and working period:
Her media concentration is Spanish, and she works with Spanish celebrities for 4 years now: Mexicans, Venezuelan, Argentina, and Dubai, she goes by her professional name ARROYO.
-she is 22 years old.
-she Majored in Visual communication that was known as “Film and Broadcast” from Zayed University in Dubai City.
-She has her own Blog that includes everything she did and accomplished, and website created for Telenovela world.
TELENOVELA web: http://telenovelas100.wordpress.com
-She owns her own business as a film editor, director, montage maker, general writer, photographer, interviewer and promoter.
· What are the most important tasks of your job position?
-To be creative
-Think outside the box
-To love what you are doing
· Why did you choose this major?
-I didn’t choose it, the major chose me.
-I liked the media field since I was 12, I got so passionate for this field, and by the time I reached Zayed University everything was like training to me, as I was working in this field while I was a student in that major.
· What are the required skills to be successful in this field?
-First thing is that you should really like this field and enjoy what you are doing.
-you should always be yourself, be unique at what you do and present, never try to copy anyone in the way he/she work, especially if you write a script or an article, because that person can drag you to court for that.
- You can never be successful if you are not enjoying what you are doing and you will be miserable.
· What skills/strengths have you gain from your job/major?
-Running my own business.
-well I was doing a lot of things by myself when I started, things that didn’t include “photographing “ because it was just a hobby to me and then the skill just developed into a part of my career and business.
· How did you find your current job? What are the most satisfying and frustrating aspects at your job or major?
-I decided to start by running my own business instead of working under someone else’s supervision, so technically am the boss of myself, but it doesn’t mean that I don’t work in a company or so, because I do work in a TV station, i started recently, someone recommended me to them.
-the fact that I get to decide everything is very important to me, so am glad that I can do that.
-To me there is nothing frustrating about this career, and the most important thing is that I was and still am satisfied with all my accomplishments.
-"Since she tends to be different and unique in everything; Arroyo entered this field in a very unique concentration here which is “Spanish Media”, she didn’t work with a lot of Arabs, she mainly worked with Spanish celebrities and she made a lot of interviews with the best of the best, such as the Venezuelan singer /actress “Kiara” www.kiara.com.ve "
-She wrote a true story called “A True Hero”.
-She wrote many articles, some of them are published in ESCAPADE MAGAZINE.
-she wrote many interviews, movie script, scenes for short plays, short stories, many movie reviews, directed many videos and filming, filmed documentaries.
-she made around 100 montages that include promotions such as child abuse, music CDs such as Kiara’s new album “Como La Primera Vez”.
-She does promotions for celebrities.
-Now she is writing a TV series of 30 episodes, each episode talks about a different story that is not related to the rest of the episodes, most of the stories are true stories.
· What are the difficulties that students face in this major?
-The difficulties are that some students are obligated by the parents to enter a field that they don’t like it or they don’t want it, so they won’t be doing it right because once you don’t like something you just can’t give a 100% which is unacceptable at all in any kind of job or career path.
-Some of them enter with no basic information or background about media which makes them struggle.
-If they entered a university that has lack of opportunities in something like this field or area, they will have no experience and it will not help them with finding a job.
-with no skills or low abilities it wont be easy for them to find a job with a good salary.
· What kind of activities that the students do in this major?
-The University can help students to meet people and interview them this can help them develop their skills as TV presenters or interviewers.
- To go to photo shooting sessions with professionals this way they get to learn everything they need to be a professional photographer.
-To give them experience working outside the university, meeting directors, producers and writers, because this major cannot be completely learned inside the university.
· Do you have an advice for graduates who will be working in this field?
-Build up your skill.
-To be confidence and work by yourself and by your style and ideas.
-If you fail you should try again and again till you accomplish what you want.
-Never listen to people because they just bring you down, just go for what you want to do.
-You can always seek for advice from professionals.
-Being an interviewer means being very strong and absolutely sure of yourself to interview a person.
-Don’t let anybody affect you in a bad way.
-Never stop at one point and try to seek higher goals.
-if you struggle to find a job in a company or so, then try Creating your own business like working online, because we are developing and online business is a success to a lot of people these day.
