The year ahead........

I've now been back for a whole week and already there is so much to do! Firstly I am going to talk about the Client Module. This has been seperated into two parts, the first being an assigned project which consists of a 30 second television advert advertising, informing and selling the product, insect repellent. I find this to be a very challenging subject topic and expect to have much fun completing it. I have already began working on ideas which I will pitch to my group on thursday and then hopefully come to a conclusion as to which one I am going to do.

The second part of the client module is a live project. Containing all the aspects of customer and client relations of which a brief will be met. I have found a client based in Harewood, North Yorkshire. It is a financial services company called Godfrey Pearson Limited (http://www.godfreypearson.com). They are currently looking for someone to create them a new identity and multimedia package including website, tv advert, radio advert and much more. More detail will be made in later posts.

Secondly the Personal Research Module. I have had a bit of a rocky start with this module. Finding a research topic really isn't that easy! My initial thoughts was to produce something which discussed the effects on film for different mediums and how the compression rate of that film effected its aesthetic value. I decided against this after discussions with deb and jools as producing artefacts for the research via practice side of the module could prove difficult as it would only be a case of changing a couple of settings when exporting the movie. Hardly a challenge and probably rubbish marks of origonality!

After listening to some of my peers and their ideas in a surgery meeting held by jools last week I now have a better idea of what is being asked of us. I've been looking at technology within education, more so on the mutimedia side of things, such as film and music. How this technology works within education? The advantages of being able to use a multimedia projector instead of a OHP? How the technology helps in different environments such as; in the office, schools (differnt age groups different levels of technology?), medical (children with downs syndrome for instance) and maybe the use of this technology for the rehabilitation of people who have suffered severe trauma from accidents such as a car crash.

There is much information out there on the internet and in the library about this area of research and how it may make a difference in education. I'm in the process of ironing out the finer details of this topic such as what artefacts I am going to produce and how they'll be tested. I'll post that up here once it's done.

Finally SPP3, I have already began looking a job roles and jobs available to see what I should be aiming to do when I finish in 2008. I have a verbal confirmation concerning a 2 week placement working a Sky Sports in London for the Easter break and I am aiming secure another week working with a couple of freelance cameramen nearer xmas/new year.

I have decided that I need to produce an individual online portfolio that is dettached from the Hub available at NTU. It is quite a competitive world out there and i'd rather that when prospective employers are looking at my portfolio they are only looking at my portfolio! So I am currently working on designs and ironing out what software I believe would be the best for me to use. I have only little experience in website design from college level almost 5 years ago. So I am giving myself up until the end of January to complete it as to ensure I don't fall behind in my other modules.

All in all I am glad to be in the 3rd year and I am looking forward to hopefully producing some high quality pieces of work.