Both 6VE1 1 & 2 required that the assignment submission “be viewable both on Windows and Macintosh systems in current versions of browsers”, meaning that the assignment would have to be created in a way that both platforms would need to be able to read the files. There were no tutorials on how Macintosh platforms and Windows platforms where different, how files could be created in order to be accessible on both platforms, how the design programs differed across platforms, or even how to use a Macintosh (as most of the students straight from high school had only ever used the common PC). Not only this, but for those who didn’t have Macintosh systems at home, Edit Plus was the PC program that had to be obtained and used instead of BBEdit which was the Macintosh program that was taught in tutorials.

Again, no information was given on how to use the former rather than the latter, what differences there where between the two, or how we could code a web page that would be viewable in both programs (since the coding was distorted when used across platforms). Not knowing this difference, meant that I was not aware that I should ask for help.

6VE1, G8 Parts , Business. Australia.

The topic you choose must be relevant to the content covered in this unit (in particular in the first section, weeks 1-5). This means that you cannot simply study a specific industry sector within the creative industries, or a specific 6VE1 / organisation / artist within that sector; rather, you must discuss them with reference to wider creative industries issues.

So, rather than focussing on a particular 6VE1 , for example, describe this 6VE1 ’s placement within a wider creative industries sector; rather than focussing on a particular creative industries sector, describe that sector’s tendency to cluster around specific local or global hotspots; rather than describing the work of a particular creative organisation in itself, examine how the nature of this work responds to specific problems facing the creative industries, etc.

The lectures in the first part of the unit will provide useful pointers here: key questions you might like to examine are how creative industry sectors respond to the emergence of the new knowledge economy, to questions of globalisation and local placement, to interdisciplinary, hybrid, or convergence-driven creative industries development opportunities, or to the increasing aestheticisation of everyday life and customisation of media and cultural content.

Business Type: Sole Trader

Sole trader, as the name suggests, is where an individual is the sole owner of a business. The business is often quite small in terms of size (as measured, for example, by sales generated, or number of staff employed) however the number of these businesses is very large indeed. Examples of these businesses can be found in most industrial sectors but particularly in most service sectors. Hence services such as electrical repair, picture framing, photography, diving instruction, retail shops, and hotels have a large proportion of sole trade business.