Future Publishing Day 1

For our first day at Future Publishing, we would only be spending the morning with Wendy, because we had an important guest lecturer in University during the afternoon. I was very excited and eager when i arrived and was really looking forward to exploring the offices.

Myself and Reuben began by meeting Wendy at their Monmouth Street building reception, where she told us that we would be spending the morning in her multimedia studio and surrounding offices, which was in a building a couple of minutes down the road having introductions to her team and the equipment and software they use.

We were introduced to the studio that she uses, which was equipped with a large green screen area, with 4 or 5 professional microphones fro recording pod casts and also 3 Adobe Premiere Pro editing suites. We were then given introductions to her team. First up, we met a few guys that were working on the Official Playstation Magazine, editing previously unreleased material for the free demo disk that comes attached to the magazine. We also met a couple of programmers who design most of the flash for the DVD's and also the relevant websites. We were shown a new fully downloadable magazine, which would be on the Playstation 3 online network. I cannot be specific about details because then I'd have to kill you, but it was exciting stuff to see and really interesting to see how it was being put together.

It was a lot different to what i imagined, because the team didn't really work as a team. They all had their individual tasks and deadlines and seemed to just get on with it, asking one another for help when needed.

Wendy told us about some of the work that Future were currently doing, one of which was a commission for an Italian bicycle company called Colnago for 4 videos, in which herself and someone from her team would be flying over to Italy to film.