The document outlines a personal development plan template that can be used to identify learning needs and goals. It provides an example of a goal to gain more experience in the film industry and get work on film sets. Specific learning needs are identified such as gaining work experience, becoming more confident with software like Adobe XD and Illustrator, improving communication skills, and learning how to better market themselves in interviews. Timeframes ranging from a few months to over a year are set for working towards these goals. Help from tutors, mentors, and careers advisors is identified.

1. PERSONAL / PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT PLAN TEMPLATE
You can utilise this PDP template to specify your self-identified development needs for forthcoming year, but this can also be used for longer-term plans
too. Try to identify as many learning or development needs, as required, to achieve your future objective(s) and consider creating multiple individual PDPs if
you have more than one current goal. Don’t forget to ensure that your goals are SMART!
Goal or Objective:
To get my foot under the door in the industry and experience more days on set.
Learning and
Development Need
Type of development Timescales Who is can help? Further comments
Provide a specific description of
the desired changes (e.g. skills
gained, knowledge acquired,
topics/content covered)
E.g. Work experience, short course,
conference, further research, mentor,
job shadowing, volunteering
E.g. End of April? Over next 6
months? Over next 1-2 years?
E.g. Tutor, friend, family,
employer, careers advisor,
mentor
E.g. Resource
requirements, Additional
notes
To graduate in a year’s time
with a clear understanding of
where I want to go from there.
I want to move over to London
more towards the city center as
from previous years of
searching there are loads of
jobs there.
Look for relevant work experience now
it will help me in the long run when it
comes to my graduation. Building up
my cv with enough camera-based work
so that it takes the pressure of me
when relocating to somewhere more
higher paid.
1 year and 2 months. For when I
graduate in 2024
Myself whilst there will be
people to help guide me along
the way with relevant
information. Piecing it all
together to make the next step
is a move that I have to embrace
for independence reasons
To become more confident
with the lesser known
softwares which I have
struggled with over the years.
Adobe XD, Adobe illustrator
etc.
Spending more time practising any
experiment on said apps. The more
confident I become on them. The more
chance it opens up to finding a job in
that particular field. Watching more
tips and tricks from various users for
these softwares is something I’ve
never had the patient for before but
having realised the importance of it
I’m that over the course of this
next year I will be come more
confident in these softwares. I
am 100% confident in using
everything on apps such as
photoshop and premiere pro
but I really struggle with the two
listed on the left. By becoming
more confident on these I hope
to use them through the span of
Tutorial from various videos on
YouTube. My way of learning is I
can’t be told once. I have to pick
it up over a pattern of doing it.
So, techs/lecturers can give me
some tips on how I can improve
a piece of work on the site but
any private exercising I am doing
on there will require more rinse
and repeat step by step work in
Adobe XD and Adobe
illustrator tutorials

2. PERSONAL / PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT PLAN TEMPLATE
now older. I will spend more time on
these.
my corresponding career until I
take a step up to amore
advanced software
order for those skills to transfer
over.
Improving my communication
skills and conveying the right
language in short snappy
sentences.
Adapting more into a social
environment and learning to stick with
vital decisions that are able to
negotiate around other people’s. I find
myself having the inability to say no
even if it’s a particular idea that I’m not
too sure about due to confidence. This
can cause a project to diminish and
become wrecked in pre-production
process.
This is something which is
essential for this time period as
group projects is giving out
insight what it’s like to work as a
production crew and why
communication essential
This would be usually for my
careers advisor to direct me.
How to sell my demeanour in an
interviewer. However I think
refreshing on the basic terms
with my tutors and definitions
would remind me of my vocal
importance within the media
terminology in a film.
Convincing the person offering
the job that I am the right
person for the role. My skills
come out in my work, but my
downfall is in selling myself.
Listing out my attributes and why they
would benefit that company is
something I need to work on. exercise
of looking at job requirement on
various websites and seeing what they
are looking for is an important thing to
do. Making notes of theses points and
explaining further down the line what I
can add that would benefit to the said
skill even further down the line
Ideally for when I graduate but
start working on it now. Really
start doing more shadowing on
set and runner work. Applying
to these jobs and sending cover
letters over listing why I think I
would be this perfect for this
particular said role.
Again this would come down to
my careers advisors by talking
through the attributes that the
job is is looking for and the skills
that I have. They can direct me
to the most important qualities
and what I need to work on.
Film more. Film and edit my
own side projects. Constantly
exercise new and creative
methods with the camera that
will sell my image a lot better
and encourage me to test out
different shots.
Whilst this is something that I do now.
it’s not consistent and I need to keep
up on it. It’s not me not knowing what
to create. I have more scripts than I
have films that I have made but it’s just
about finding the time to keep up
exercising what it is I enjoy and hope
to take forward as a profession.
This is something which I
already have started and have
been trying to keep up with
more consistently for three
years now but it’s more
important than ever, coming
towards my graduation year to
be filming more side projects.
Of course, I come under this,
but I know from filming stuff by
myself in the past how difficult
this can be. Using friends and
family as actors is always
something I like to do. That way
you have more of team behind
the structure and more different
ideas from around the room are
being implemented

3. PERSONAL / PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT PLAN TEMPLATE
SMART goals – Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant and Time-bound.