Why I want to do my third year
I’ve thought a lot about why I want to do my third year and which direction I would like to take. I feel that from all that I’ve learnt on my two year foundation degree is the third year would give me the opportunity to study an area which I am more interested in and believe would help me in the future and that is 3d graphics. I want to study this not just because of the satisfaction you get from creating something visually appealing but because I feel that it would be the most useful and applicable in a working environment. This is because the professional skills developed in the third year would give me clear guidance and more transferable skills in software’s that can be used in many different areas in the creative industry.
I would like to advance my skills in after effects and typography because they will be incredibly helpful skills in the industry that I enjoy doing and will be appealing to an employer/client. For my specialist project, I want to incorporate all elements of effects and other programs for post production, mainly looking at areas of work that I haven’t focused on before, whether it’s been planning or the post-production itself. My aim is to create something that I can be happy about putting my name on and start of my portfolio with.
In addition to these things I have really enjoyed the course so far and felt that I have met some interesting people and learnt a lot of new skills. Also with the experiences that I have had in my first and second years I am still eager to learn more about the digital world and hopefully be given a truly in depth insight in the third year and the digitally working world. I hope that in my third year I will get to meet many more industry professionals and get to hear and learn what they have to say also the opportunity to work with some of these people would be brilliant and get the chance to build up my name as a reliable, helpful and creative digital media ‘professional’.
In order to help me develop my career path when the course is over, I want to travel to make myself more aware of the world around me. Creative digital imagery is influenced by culture and setting and I am keen to develop my appreciation of different cultural imagery internationally. Through doing this I believe I will become more appreciative of the ideas that others have and hopefully get to experience a variety of cultures and get round to seeing some interesting digital media related things along the way. So the plan that I have for my third year is to extend my skills in post production and editing and create a portfolio that I will be proud of and employers will find interesting and innovative.
