Time Strategies

Time management is a tricky thing, especially when you're working, or have commitments. It is especially hard to mange time when you are a procrastinator, like most young people today. They think about planning ahead and get put off when they realise the workload. My current time planner works well mostly, but could use some tweaking.
I read 3 Steps to Recapture Time and The Important Habit of Just Starting, both of which were eye opening about how to properly manage my time and getting started on assignments and beating procrastination.

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Having four submissions for just Multimedia a week is a struggle by itself, but adding four more modules to that and the stress just overwhelms you. Hopefully the time management skills will help with keeping up to date with the modules for the year.

New Technology

The technology or websites and software's that we will be using in this module, and probably for the rest of college and depending on the jobs we get, the rest of our lives, will be fun to use and interesting to see how these new technologies and software's will intertwine and pan out with the assignments.

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My thoughts on the Assignments

The upcoming assignments are certainly peaking my interest, but the only issue I see coming is the workload, but I'll deal with it as best as I can. The most intriguing assignment is the Building a Game one, which will allow me to do something I always wanted to do, build a game!

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Self Introduction

About myself,
I suppose my favourite module last year was either photography or Storytelling and Narrative, both modules provided me with a greater interest in the course overall. The photography gave me a chance to do something I always wanted to do, which was to actually use and learn about cameras. The storytelling gave me a chance to study scenes and scriptwriting. I loved watching and studying films when I was young, always wondering how they set up the scene or what went into achieving a certain scene, like with the Star Wars prequel films, I always wondered how they did the lightsabers and force moves, and even Quentin Tarantino films, like Kill Bill and Pulp Fiction, the story driven narrative always alluded me. With Storytelling and Narrative, I somewhat understand the process, but I still want to learn and know more.

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I like to playing games and pool, airsoft etc. My favourite game series would be Metal Gear Solid or Mortal Kombat. I don’t really have a particular artist or band that I like, or even a particular genre, I have a broad interest in all or most music. Post Malone, Metallica, Guns n Roses, AC/DC, Drake etc.

I didn’t really do much during the summer except work and pay for stuff for college, like a camera and a laptop. I hung out with friends a lot and spent time with my family. I enjoy Marvel movies and just Marvel in general, I watch WWE and UFC a lot. I also like great story driven video games, for example the new game God of War was a story about a son and his father on a journey to spread his mother’s ashes st the hightedt peak in all the nine realms. The game spends a lot of time with characters, and thus makes you care about them. It’s hard for a media to do that nowadays, with the like of the television show Game of Thrones, where characters are killed off left right and center. So for a game to have that effect on you really makes you think about what way the entertainment industry is going.

Workshop 01

The workshop in itself confused everyone. It was our first official new material lecture, and the question threw us a bit, also it was our first week back after four months off, so everyone wasn't focusing on the question, and just had a giggle or were on their phones. The workshop reminded me of studying for my theory test. The badly assembled look of the image and the confusing structure of the question was like something straight out of the theory test book.

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The feeling and struggle of getting a full licence

 

The delivery of the workshop was okay, it could have been better, more student interaction would have been better, the video format of having the images in a Vimeo video might have been a weakness, because waiting for the images to change in the video was hard to keep concentration with. The strength it had was having it in an easily accessible manner, whereby the students can do the workshop on one format, rather than switching between Moodle, Microsoft, Google etc. I worked on the question with other students, but we couldn't figure out the answer even with our combined knowledge of the rules of the road, it's probably a sign we shouldn't be driving on the road yet!!

Working in groups is handier than working by yourself anyway, as with any business, or marketing team, or graphic design team, if you are in a team, you can work better and more efficiently, as you can throw ideas out in the open, and brainstorm better, as many hands make easy work. This short experience is an insight to my assignment down the line, as I might want to work in a group rather than by myself. 

Writing in this blog format is a new experience for me, I find it interesting, as it fuels my creativity for my project. On the other hand it is a slight be intimidating, having my peers and lecture reading, essentially my thoughts on the module written down. However, this experience will have a positive effect on not only my college abilities, but also my writing abilities.

That is all I really have to say about the workshop. 

My favourite Game(s)

Mortal Kombat X (and 9)
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This is a game series that I have enjoyed for as long as I can remember, probably not very appropriate for a twelve year old kid to be playing!

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