Talking to some people, you’d have thought that education was a university’s secondary function. Drinking, partying and ‘discovering yourself’ seem to be high up on people’s priority list for ‘the best three years of your life,’ and seeing as I am such a party animal, I thought that it would make sense for me to let the world know how I’ll be filling my time inbetween the nights out.
Providing I get enough UCAS points for my course which, though I don’t like to brag are relatively easy to get, I’ll be off to Canterbury, specifically the Broadstairs campus to study Video and Motion Graphics. That mainly entails stuff like green screen, adding some visual effects and general video editing. At least that’s the impression I’ve got of the course so far.
It’s interesting, for me at least, that despite playing music for most of my life, I’m not choosing it (at the moment) as a career path. I think this is down to several things, two to do with music and one with media.
Firstly, I treat music more as a hobby, and because I like to keep myself doing different things. Doing music as a job as well as listening to and playing it for fun would be a bit dry for me, so I’m throwing in something else as my main subject.
Secondly, and less of a good point, but I’ve found that in the last couple of years, Music Tech especially seems have some real wierdies in it. Not everyone, of course, but it can feel a bit cliquey, and desperate to avoid being one of them, I’ve opted for something different.
And then there’s media itself. A subject I’ve only been involved in for the last four years but has leapt out at me as something I think I can do. Learning new techniques, styles and genres of media has been fascinating, in video, audio and print. I’ve found that I can’t watch a film in the same way as I used to, and spend most of the time trying to work out how they did this, that and the other. I’m now desperate to just go out and make a film so I can try it out for myself, and also to encourage myself that my new laptop and video editing software was worth the price.
Bit early to say yet, but where do I go after Uni? Hopefully, the course will tell me a bit more about what my speciality is and what I most enjoy doing. The course works in a ‘blunt pyramid’ structure, which means that you start off doing lots of different things, but through the stages of the course you narrow yourself down to just a few key areas. Sounds great. So I can’t tell you where on the credits I’ll be for the next Bond film (should be being made when I leave uni at this rate) but hopefully I’ll be there somewhere.
