And so it begins!

So I was ill during the 1st two introduction days hence I am only starting my blog now, a week after I should of done. oops. Anyway I am going to pretend it is a week ago and talk about intial impressions, how I think the course will develop, projects etc.

My initial impressions of university life are quite different from what I expected. After taking a art foundation course at Bucks New Uni last year I had this expectation that that it would be exactly the same at NTU, being in the studio 9-4, always having a project to work on, always being around and working with other people on my course. However, it seems that this is not how it works in Nottingham. 5 hours of teaching a WEEK! just told to go and get on with projects without any guidance and at the moment I hardly know anyone on my course. It does make me question what im paying my 3500 pounds for. I understand that this is not a school education or even a college education but 5 hours a week, just doesnt seem like enough to me. I may have to talk to a tutor at some point. Give it a few weeks see how the course develops then we'll see. Hopefully I will just get used to the change in pace.

The assignments. I have been given all my assignments for the next couple of weeks. The essay seems quite short but tricky at the same time. There could be a lot of research to do before writing this essay. Design techniques? I dont even know where to start. What the hell are design techniques?
The animation project seems much more exciting. I have got a few ideas on how to incorperate the sequences we took as a group and my own ideas aswell. I was thinking something along the lines of having a cross between hand drawn animation and the photos we took. Im not sure how feasable that is as i think it will take ages to hand draw lots of frames. Also swapping from hand drawn to photos, it may get out of sync. we'll wait and see if it works out.

Im going to do a bit of animation research and post my results on here later.

Adios