18/09/13
Today I felt a little bit under prepared, because I haven't done a lot of research for this module yet, but I planned to go to the University Library to see if any books on the book lists for my current modules were available this afternoon.
I think that there was an expectation for us to have at least done some research by now, even though this is only our second week back at college since summer, as our first task was to split into groups and make a list of things required to write a good proposal. (there were only 4 of us and I'm the only second year New Media student at college right now. Ananda, the other second year New Media student should be coming back soon.) Because I hadn't done a great deal of research other than what's been mentioned in last week's lecture, I just had to use what I already knew to help write the list. Luckily, the person I was paired up with, a photography student who I think is called Michael, seemed to know what he was doing. He seems to be a bit quieter and more studious than the other photography students, but he seems nice enough. I actually found this task quite easy, and I'm happy that I could use my knowledge and imagination to think of good answers, and I felt that together, we managed to put together quite a decent list.
19/09/13
This Thursday was certainly a very weird and daunting day, as I was the only person from the course that actually attended college today! It also was a bit intimidating that all the attention from Neil and Lynda was focused on me as well, but I suppose this couldn't be helped. I also didn't really sleep well the night before, so that didn't help things either.
I suppose I did feel a little bit disappointed that I was alone at college all day as well.
This morning I discussed with Neil what project I'd like to work on for the next 6 weeks or so until half term.
Wednesday, 25 September 2013
Tuesday, 17 September 2013
New Media Week 1 Year 2
11/09/13
Ok, I shall be honest, I was feeling quite nervous coming back to college this year, especially because of some of the stresses of last year. I also feel that it might initially be quite hard to get back into the routine of college again, with waking up earlier, and getting used to the workload of college again. However, this year I do hope to learn from these stresses, and become a bit more open minded to suggestions and criticism from the lecturers.
I got to college on Wednesday, not really knowing what to expect, but for some reason I certainly didn't expect to see the Foundation Degree Photography students, and my college support, Lynda in my class. However, everybody seemed very happy to see me after a very long summer, which did make me feel very welcome to be back at college.
Today was mostly about discussing what our "big ambitions" are, and we were made to make and present a 5 minute PowerPoint presentation about this. To be honest I have already given this a lot of serious consideration before and over summer, because I really don't see myself working in a very competitive industry, and I did find the workload last year very stressful (and I am quite worried that I am going to be quite stressed out at times this year, but I'll try my best to not make it as bad this year as last year.)
I have actually arranged to start a voluntary work placement at Walton Hall Special School as an assistant art therapist which should start later this month, and will last for 12 weeks. I hope to bring the art and media skills I have learned at college on both my BTEC and my Foundation Degree courses to the placement. I'm actually looking forward to starting this placement, but I am quite nervous about it too. One of the main purposes of me doing this placement is to really find out what it is I really want to do as a career, and I felt that something similar to what I'll be doing on this placement could be quite ideal, as I feel I have quite a good deal of life experience I could use to relate to other people and difficulties in their lives and to make lives better, hence I shall be a HEROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
I did end up speaking to the photography students quite a lot today, arguably more than I did in the entire year last year combined! This made me feel that it might be easier to talk to people now it's a slightly smaller group, even though I got on with a lot of the Foundation Degree in Contemporary Art Practice students last year that aren't in our class this year. However, Lynda did mention that the Photography students might have been quite chatty because of nerves and not really knowing what they're doing.
12/09/13
Today was our first fully practical lesson, and I was feeling a bit nervous because, truth be told, I haven't done a lot of 3D modelling practice over summer. I did feel that because of the stresses last year I probably needed a break from 3D modelling work, and I also don't know anymore how relevant 3D modelling will come into my future career now. However, I did feel at certain parts of the summer that I probably should have practiced 3D modelling a bit more, but I feel I didn't have the motivation to do so either.
However, it surprised me about how much I could actually remember in the 3D modelling program Maya. Just to get us used to Maya again, Our first task was a mock one day brief to build parts for a household robot, which we then had to model and texture, after doing a bit of research into household robots. Luckily, I remember having some robotic toys when I was younger (I probably still do have some of them!) so I used them in my research for this task.
Building the robot in Maya was a little bit confusing, because Neil mentioned that he wanted all the parts of the robot to be built separately, and I've been so used to for the past 3 years building character models as one solid model. However, I quickly adapted to this, and this is only a one off, so I will be building future models the way I'm more used to.
This morning Neil also played this documentary about household robots in the background whilst I was doing my work. Even though I was mainly focusing on my work, I did take notice of the documentary at times, and I did find it a bit freaky that places in Japan had access to this technology. It still seems like this kind of technology is in it's early stages, but its apparent potential scares me a little, such as how they were talking about curing mental illness and replacing people's jobs, such as waiters. Another part of me thinks if this is totally necessary to have these household robots, and also if people did have them, they would probably cost a fortune!
This afternoon we were told that we could choose what we wanted to do for this module, Understanding the Media 2.
Ok, I shall be honest, I was feeling quite nervous coming back to college this year, especially because of some of the stresses of last year. I also feel that it might initially be quite hard to get back into the routine of college again, with waking up earlier, and getting used to the workload of college again. However, this year I do hope to learn from these stresses, and become a bit more open minded to suggestions and criticism from the lecturers.
I got to college on Wednesday, not really knowing what to expect, but for some reason I certainly didn't expect to see the Foundation Degree Photography students, and my college support, Lynda in my class. However, everybody seemed very happy to see me after a very long summer, which did make me feel very welcome to be back at college.
Today was mostly about discussing what our "big ambitions" are, and we were made to make and present a 5 minute PowerPoint presentation about this. To be honest I have already given this a lot of serious consideration before and over summer, because I really don't see myself working in a very competitive industry, and I did find the workload last year very stressful (and I am quite worried that I am going to be quite stressed out at times this year, but I'll try my best to not make it as bad this year as last year.)
I have actually arranged to start a voluntary work placement at Walton Hall Special School as an assistant art therapist which should start later this month, and will last for 12 weeks. I hope to bring the art and media skills I have learned at college on both my BTEC and my Foundation Degree courses to the placement. I'm actually looking forward to starting this placement, but I am quite nervous about it too. One of the main purposes of me doing this placement is to really find out what it is I really want to do as a career, and I felt that something similar to what I'll be doing on this placement could be quite ideal, as I feel I have quite a good deal of life experience I could use to relate to other people and difficulties in their lives and to make lives better, hence I shall be a HEROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
I did end up speaking to the photography students quite a lot today, arguably more than I did in the entire year last year combined! This made me feel that it might be easier to talk to people now it's a slightly smaller group, even though I got on with a lot of the Foundation Degree in Contemporary Art Practice students last year that aren't in our class this year. However, Lynda did mention that the Photography students might have been quite chatty because of nerves and not really knowing what they're doing.
12/09/13
Today was our first fully practical lesson, and I was feeling a bit nervous because, truth be told, I haven't done a lot of 3D modelling practice over summer. I did feel that because of the stresses last year I probably needed a break from 3D modelling work, and I also don't know anymore how relevant 3D modelling will come into my future career now. However, I did feel at certain parts of the summer that I probably should have practiced 3D modelling a bit more, but I feel I didn't have the motivation to do so either.
However, it surprised me about how much I could actually remember in the 3D modelling program Maya. Just to get us used to Maya again, Our first task was a mock one day brief to build parts for a household robot, which we then had to model and texture, after doing a bit of research into household robots. Luckily, I remember having some robotic toys when I was younger (I probably still do have some of them!) so I used them in my research for this task.
Building the robot in Maya was a little bit confusing, because Neil mentioned that he wanted all the parts of the robot to be built separately, and I've been so used to for the past 3 years building character models as one solid model. However, I quickly adapted to this, and this is only a one off, so I will be building future models the way I'm more used to.
This morning Neil also played this documentary about household robots in the background whilst I was doing my work. Even though I was mainly focusing on my work, I did take notice of the documentary at times, and I did find it a bit freaky that places in Japan had access to this technology. It still seems like this kind of technology is in it's early stages, but its apparent potential scares me a little, such as how they were talking about curing mental illness and replacing people's jobs, such as waiters. Another part of me thinks if this is totally necessary to have these household robots, and also if people did have them, they would probably cost a fortune!
This afternoon we were told that we could choose what we wanted to do for this module, Understanding the Media 2.
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