Since January I’ve been interning at Fierce as an assistant producer, but now my time here comes to an end. *pause for sounds of sorrow* Looking back at my time here; I’ve found that my experience has been eye-opening to the background life of running a festival. Even though I was taught so much at university about the business side of being an artist; it’s not until you’re actually doing it all the time that you realise how much work goes into it.
When I joined Fierce they were just coming back from not only Christmas but the 2017 festival at the end of the year. The festival had been a lot of work but the performance wasn’t over – it was time to work on the aftermath of the festival. SOCIAL NETWORKING! Even though the festival was over; there was still a need to hype up the festival as much as possible. This included all things social media. I was left in control of advertising on all social platforms about everything Fierce and anything related. It wasn’t until I took on this task that I understood how essential social media was in a career such as this.
This was just the icing on the cake though.
A lot of my time at Fierce has been spent gathering, organising and presenting all things documentation. I’ve had to collate all images and videos of artist’s performances at the festival together before arranging for them to be presented in some fashion. This task included getting permission from all artists for their documents to be used.
Over the following weeks, I was tasked with various research tasks for numerous funding opportunities; collating information together for already accepted applications and analysing audience information of the previous festival. All of this allowed me to fully appreciate the effort and commitment that each and every person put into the festival to make it such a success.
Part of my job was to create an upcoming page for the website from scratch. This took a lot of investigating into how to edit the website and scouring our archive for all of the appropriate information that was needed. Having created a website previously I went into this task with confidence; as even though Fierce used a different system to what I had previously used, the two were very similar. It didn’t take me long to understand the system and a page was created that gelled with the rest of the website ready to be published. Every task I have had as an assistant producer at Fierce has taught me something new about the way this role works – for which I am grateful. I have enjoyed every task and meeting I have been to in a variety of ways. It has allowed me to further develop and hone skills that I already had; whilst learning, even more, to take on into the future. Thanks to everyone in the team – stay FIERCE!
