This blog marks the start of my BA in Interactive Media Production at Bournemouth University. My understanding of the blog, along with the ‘Visual Diary’ is to document our thought process/ideas/emotions as well as our achievements a long the way – so here goes!
When asked by Joe, “What do you want to achieve from doing IM?” my inital reaction is, I haven’t got the foggest! When asked the same thing again by Mik today I managed to come up with “To get into an industry where I will get rich!” (or something to that effect).
But thinking about it, my ultimate goal is for a carrer in Advertising/Marketing, so I guess I want to learn how to use different computer programs in order to make a product(s) for future clients, whether this be a website, animation or even just a static image/advert. And after all, I’m told thats the industry where all the money is!!
To bring you up to speed on the progress of my course, I have offically started my visual diary today. I have been all around my flat collecting images, cuttings, stickers to go into it (whether my flatmates what the paper or not they don’t get a choice!). I will begin sticking these into my mini sketch book tomorrow, although I’m not really sure where it’s going to lead. I find I’m not one of these people that can plan out loads of different ideas and respond to them and bring them all to a conclusive point, but rather find one idea which seems to come from nowhere and stick with it and that would become my final idea. I’m also not very good with the whole experimenting with the idea as I’m going a long, so I suppose you could say that is something else I want to get from this course…to learn or rather to gain the ability to let ideas flow freely and become much more creative than I have been in the past (although once thing I can be sure about is that there will be NO artistic sketches or drawings going on – I mean just look at my Pictionary attempt earlier today!).
I think I’m going to call that the end of my first blog entry, its pretty late considering I haven’t been out or done anything other than playing Floorball for the very first time today which was certainly entertaining…think I was gradually getting the hang of it though so I might try it again!
Until next time – Byeee!
