{"id":14543,"date":"2016-12-07T15:55:45","date_gmt":"2016-12-07T15:55:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/postgraduate\/?p=4604"},"modified":"2016-12-07T15:55:45","modified_gmt":"2016-12-07T15:55:45","slug":"my-unexpected-journey-to-bournemouth-university","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/2016\/12\/07\/my-unexpected-journey-to-bournemouth-university\/","title":{"rendered":"My Unexpected Journey to Bournemouth University"},"content":{"rendered":"\"first\"\n

My pathway is a very diverging and complex one. I discovered my talent of drawing at a very young age and I refined it throughout the years as I got older. However most of the time growing up I really had\u00a0no idea what I wanted to do. I was letting the school education system push me in whatever direction it took me. Observing the same thing\u00a0happening to my friends, it was a freeing but restraining period with a solidified structure of waking up, going to school, coming back and letting the parents take care of the rest for more than a decade and a half. I just assumed I would use my drawing\/painting skills to produce art in later life since I was proud of that. I was one of the very few people who had this talent so I kept this quality quite close to me. Not to mention, being in an academic institute didn\u2019t exactly give me\u00a0an advantage with this particular\u00a0skill but I still held that talent as high as I could among others. I seemed set on doing fine arts.<\/p>\n

After A Levels I went to study at the Camberwell College of Art to do an Art Foundation for a year with the intention of going into the Fine Arts division. There were three divisions the other two belonging to Illustration and Digital Media.<\/p>\n

Although at this point my doubts started to grow. Producing nice paintings and drawings was fun and all but I started to lose my passion (I\u2019m not even sure if I actually had true passion for it to begin with). The process of it all was becoming stale and I felt almost an outsider among other fine art students. I began noticing differences between my interests and others.<\/p>\n

From then I quickly changed my direction into Illustration. This is where I sensed I could express my enthusiasm for storytelling by representing a series of visual pieces for written work. I stuck with that interest for a month or two only to see it crumble again, and then suddenly my mind was directed toward Studio Ghibli and Hayao Miyazaki\u2019s vivid animation movies. I had an epiphany\u2026 that could be the thing I wanted to do (And still could be). There had never been a moment in my life where I felt so strongly absorbed and excited about something I could do as a career. This led me to produce my first hand drawn animation that lasted four minutes for my final project in Illustration. It was amateur but I was proud of my result since I jumped into the medium without any knowledge whatsoever.<\/p>\n

\"third\"<\/a>From there I went to study BA Animation at the London College of Communication for three years, and throughout those three years I had improved vastly. I storyboarded, I scripted, designed, illustrated, I was naive, I was careless at times and I learnt a lot. However it\u2019s intensive, tedious, and snail paced work nature took its toll on me and I started to have doubts about animation too. I worked insanely hard on producing the best animation I could at the time to the point that it even effected my health, I wondered if all the hard work was worth it.<\/p>\n

Towards the end of the course, I considered what it would be like to transfer the skills I have developed from making animation films into actual film making. BU was already a recommended place for MA 3D Digital Animation<\/a>, but I was looking at the MA Directing Film<\/a> course instead. I knew it wasn\u2019t going to be the same, and I knew there were new skills to be developed. This was a \u201cLet\u2019s give it a shot\u201d type of deal for me. Who knows where I\u2019ll end up next, I like to call it life, fate, and that\u2019s my journey to BU.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My pathway is a very diverging and complex one. I discovered my talent of drawing at a very young age and I refined it throughout the years as I got older. However most of the time growing up I really had\u00a0no idea what I wanted to do. I was letting the school education system push… Read more » about My Unexpected Journey to Bournemouth University<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1795,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1658,1663],"tags":[130,785,2024,2186],"class_list":["post-14543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog-archive","category-postgraduate","tag-bournemouth-university","tag-international-student","tag-ma-directing-film-television","tag-postgraduate-study"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14543","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1795"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14543"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14543\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}