Students at Buckinghamshire New University have been given a taster of working in the creative industries over the past few weeks with a new work placement project opportunity at Fourninety’s Milton Keynes photographic studios.

The students, who are undergraduates on the Film and Television Production course, have been working hard on an exciting new digital e-commerce project, giving them the opportunity to showcase their creative, editing and project management skills whilst learning more about life at a busy retail communications agency.

Paul McManus, Executive Creative Director at Fourninety said:

“With recent reports suggesting graduates are now facing record levels of unemployment, the creative sector is a notoriously hard industry to enter after leaving university. We are pleased to be able to give young talent the chance to experience our business, whilst hopefully giving them the opportunity to contribute ideas and practice the skills they have learnt during their time at university in a ‘real’ setting. We see the work placement very much as a mutual opportunity for both sides to grow through collaboration, hopefully going some way to help undergraduates begin their climb up the career ladder upon graduation.”

24 year old placement student, Chris Conway, had this to say about working with Fourninety:

“This opportunity will no doubt prove to be extremely helpful when we graduate. Working to a professional standard in this setting has given us so much that would be hard to gain from merely being taught, and we feel that what we produce after will be better for this experience.”