Thursday 12 March 2009

I see the tears from binocualrs, third year tutor mops them up

Went to a BA Hons Graphic Design today this afternoon.


Honest scared the shit out of me......


He said about it being very much you, and your own thinking, 'we are the facilitators', and its student centered. He talked about that you are given the brief, and you just do it, for example last year they were given a brief with a title called 90 minutes and they had to think about how they could graphically represent this, they say come back in a week with some ideas/ research, I know this is like our course but they seem to really be quite strict about this.

Something about dates for tutorials and they don't give fuck about if you come or not, present research etc. Dates are there and thats it., and if you say what do I do next they go fuck off or dumbstruck.

They showed us live brief work that just looked so proffessional- I have to really make my fmp like this.  I feel that if I want to feel happy and achieve getting into the third year I really have to prove to myself that I can produce the level of standard they seem to be at.


A lot of the work is where you have to find your own problem and you just research etc. The major point he said was about research being very strong and is what leads us to our ideas. He was really emphasising this and seemed to be the main point of the talk. 


He also went through the outline of the course ...  which I'm not going to bore you with.


He said about the projects individually, about it just being 'very very very very self projected' ... this is what I want, I do but at the end it just made me think am I really good enough? Am I really at that level where I think that I can work like this, like they are?
Everything made sense, absoloutly everything! Its just there to build ourselves up for the future, for our career, a lot of it seemed to be written work , but the good thing he said was that at the last project you can either major or minor in the written aspect/ or major or minor in the practical side... sorted, handwritten work has never been my thing.. the work just looked really good. many people seem to be concerned about the fact as being branded as FDA people?  As I write this I'm writing this I'm trying to convince myself that I can... just thinking.........................

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