End of Year 2

Ok, so I just wrote and handed in my PDP essay which means that I’ve officially finished the second year!

I put off, and put off, and put off my PDP essay. I’ve know about it for ages but just never bothered to actually sit down and write it. But it got to the point where I HAD to do it and today was that day. Having just worked the the last 5 days and I’m likely to work the next 6 it was a case of today was the only opportunity I had to write it. Once I started though, I found it went pretty quickly, I even went over the word count – which I don’t think has happened once this year! Plus I had to cut loads of stuff out from my essay plan (which didn’t really consist of a plan just a list and a few thoughts).

But hey, its done now!!

Also picked up my Professional Studies unit mark. We got 64 for the presentation which I’m quite pleased with. Mik really liked our virtual world idea for Cancer Research UK. And I got 74 for the peer assessment from the Thought Den week. I’m not quite as pleased with that but I can’t complain seeing as I wasn’t actually there for most of it and didn’t really contribute to the presentation as I had committed to specific shifts at work.

I found though that during the year I left a lot of the essay work, if not all of it, to the last minute which is definitely something I am NOT going to do next year, especially with my dissertation. But I don’t think that is possible as I’ll try and break it down into small sections and just complete one bit at a time. Also I’ve decided to try and be more positive about the work that I’m completing to try and help me get through it without difficult…well with less pain anyway!

Bring on Year 3, New House, New Me!

The Beginning of Time…

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!