For the past 8 weeks, I have been an intern with Upbeat Productions at their London offices. As an intern at Upbeat, I have had the opportunity to assist on press junkets, observe on the set of branded promotional videos, develop my video editing skills in Adobe Premiere, conduct research for clients, and attend video and marketing conferences to learn more about the industries of video production and content creation.
Earlier this month, we headed to Marketing Week Live at Olympia Conference Centre, to attend a range of seminars about content marketing, brand strategy and influencer marketing.
This week we headed to Excel London to visit The Broadcast Video Expo, which is the UK’s largest broadcast, media, and tech convention. Industry professionals from the worlds of media technology, broadcast television, and entertainment business all gathered to see the newest innovations in media production.
We’ve had a busy month with new websites launching, new video content and a new starter - January has been a bit of blur! Time really does fly when you’re having fun!
Saturday 3rd November, saw the 2018 edition of the North West Drupal User Group's (NWDUG) Unconference (https://uncon.nwdrupal.org.uk/), the third since the Unconference started in 2016.
It’s been a busy few months over the summer for team Upbeat, with our annual company away days, new recruits joining the team and the launch of our new website.
We can’t believe it has been a whole year since we released Hyper Jump into the world.
Our UX designer Stephen Dudley attended the North West Drupal User Group Unconference last month. Drupal events always welcome non-developers, but is there a benefit to attending? We asked Steve for his thoughts on the experience and which session that he gained most from.
Along with others in the Upbeat Dev team I attended the NWDUG unconference in Manchester earlier this month and a talk by @Paul_Gregory which addressed a subject I’ve asked myself the best way to solve when using Drupal 8 in a development, staging and live environment.
At the end of September 2017 one of our Drupal development team, Alejandro attended the 10th and (what sadly turned out to be the last for the foreseeable future) PHP North West Conference. The event combined a full day of active learning and lesson based sessions on a range of subjects, followed by a 1.5 day conference with 3 tracks of talks and best practice knowledge for over 500 delegates. Here are a few of Alejandro's tips and highlights.
This week we welcomed a trio of aspiring web developers to our year long apprenticeship programme. They will undertake technical training as part of a national peer group, alongside on-the-job learning and support from our team. They are joined by Matthew Proudman who started on the same day as a Junior Developer.
There are a number of ways to build an app. At one end of the spectrum, there’s a website that feels like an app. At the other, there’s a true ‘native’ app - the ‘native’ bit means it’s joined at the hip to the device, so the user interface (UI) of both the app and device’s operating system (OS) feel identical, and the hardware capability of the device can be fully utilised. Following on from "you need a mobile app, now what?" - this second article on mobile explores the options available.
