Monday 10am. I woke up bright and early and got ready to make my way to work. After having my first Earl Grey cuppa of the day, I travelled over to my desk and logged in my new email address. For my first task I watched In the Shadow of Beirut, which is currently making the rounds on the festival circuit, and I wrote the copy for their ShareDoc donation page.

Two weeks passed and me and Microsoft Docs had become more than acquainted. I did lots of research, tracking down and note-taking. Also, tree branch-cutting and wattle-fence-building… (one of the in-person days happened to be a voluntary day out!)

By the end of my placement HiddenLight won an Emmy for one of their first projects, In Her Hands, a feature documentary about the first female mayor of Afghanistan. The first of many, I'm sure. I couldn’t have asked for a better place and team to start learning about documentary-making, different career paths, brainstorming and pitching to broadcasters and streamers, etc.

The scale and level of access that a company like HiddenLight has, made joining their weekly brainstorming meeting later on that much more exciting. It was my first experience of development and now I need to someday be at the level the team were bouncing ideas off each other and keeping across releases and different subject knowledge. It's a lot of fun!