Videography - Almohalla 51:

I am pleased to provide a reference for Dan McNeice. 

Dan applied to undertake remote and onsite work experience in video, short reel and social media, at our small boutique hotel, Almohalla 51, in Spain. At the time he was completing his degree in Multimedia & Journalism B.A. at the University of Salford. 

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He took the initiative to contact us the next day with an introduction email and request to have the opportunity to experience working for 10 days for us. We interviewed him via video call, and were immediately impressed with his maturity, enthusiasm and keenness to put into practice and further his course skills in a live project. He also was a fluent Spanish speaker as he originally came from Gibraltar.

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He spent 6 days working remotely and undertook the following brief, researching the business and existing social media strategy and then gave us a well-written in-depth report with many interesting ideas and suggestions to improve our model: 

• Social Media Strategy. We would like you to look at the existing social media strategy and develop additional critical components with ideas and improvements for a digital marketing strategy. Create a plan to implement content with objectives to create a more effective digital presence, with ideas for timeline, release and storytelling.  

• Writing content. Effective writing for relevant social media for us, a strategy of planned content and timeline for best use of time for future release, use of relevant storytelling, themes for successful engagement to an appropriate target audience and conversion to bookings.

Part 2 onsite as a videographer, focusing on; 

• Video/short film content for various social media channels, Reels, Stories, YouTube etc. Themes could vary from speciality walking, cycling and yoga breaks to hotel stories or discovering local Andalucia. Create a recognised brand feel, developed from our existing brand and a series of edited completed footage. Consider audio and styling for the appropriate target audience.

• Entrepreneurial business opportunity for digital social media strategy to market, promote and develop businesses, transferable to any business sector. Opportunity to undertake in-depth research case study project. 

• Spanish language skills, the opportunity to expand and prove their ability to work in a Spanish-speaking country or business. 

Dan’s work assignment with us was in two parts. 

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This is the area where Dan absolutely excelled. Completely at ease from the first moment we met him, after an initial meeting to discuss what we both wanted to achieve and what was possible within the time limit, he embraced every opportunity to take photos, videos or interview people. He was incredibly enthusiastic, even shadowing myself and my husband to learn about the day-to-day work of running a hotel, in order to create a back story, from serving meals to customer service. 

Dan interacted with everyone, he was completely comfortable going off to explore and interview local restauranteurs.  Both ourselves and our guests appreciated his pleasant, chatty and sunny nature, his professionalism, his maturity and his excellent interpersonal skills.  

 

During his 5 days with us, he even managed to find time to organise the huge amount of footage, photographs and content and produced short edits for discussion. Dan is intuitive, has excellent common sense, listening skills and an ability to adapt to different circumstances. He is incredibly hard-working, has good teamwork skills and can take on board information and act on instruction with appropriate questions. 

 

Since then he has produced five short reels which are excellent and we were genuinely surprised at the high level of professionalism, talent and skill, particularly as a new graduate.

 

We were very pleased to have the opportunity to work with Dan. His evident skills are to be applauded, his short reels are incredibly professional, well-paced, and edited and communicate our brand very effectively. We would genuinely recommend him for a job within his chosen field and feel he deserves to be offered an opportunity in a career that he would undoubtedly work hard to constantly improve his skills. 

 

We would not hesitate to recommend him and wish him well in his future career.

 

Joanne Greenhalgh and Ken Barnsley

Almohalla 51, Boutique Hotel.

Calle  Almohalla 51

Archidona 

29300

Mobile:+34 657 84 28 50 

 

Website https://www.almohalla51.com/

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