{"id":14832,"date":"2018-09-27T12:45:15","date_gmt":"2018-09-27T11:45:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/postgraduate\/?p=6811"},"modified":"2021-11-10T17:28:04","modified_gmt":"2021-11-10T16:28:04","slug":"kiratsinhs-graduate-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/2018\/09\/27\/kiratsinhs-graduate-story\/","title":{"rendered":"Kiratsinh&#8217;s graduate story"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/postgraduate\/files\/2018\/09\/Kiratsinh-Jadeja-web.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-6814 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/postgraduate\/files\/2018\/09\/Kiratsinh-Jadeja-web.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"215\" height=\"323\" \/><\/a>When Kiratsinh (Kirat) Jadeja decided he wanted to pursue a career in digital effects, there was only ever one choice for where he would study.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBU&#8217;s Digital Effects course is renowned worldwide,\u201d he said. \u201cFrom recruitment heads of premier studios on LinkedIn to CG Forums, everyone recommended Bournemouth.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI still remember asking a technical director at Double Negative back in 2012 if he could recommend a good course anywhere in the world and he said he\u2019d put Bournemouth first.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat is when I was convinced that I had to be at BU. In fact, BU was the only university I applied to. I was truly blinded by their student reels, curriculum and alumni who are today on the forefront of the VFX industry.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Kirat travelled from his home in Ahmedabad, India to study for an MA in Digital Effects at BU in 2013 and says his time here was \u201csome of the best days in 25 years of my life.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI would go to Bournemouth University 1000 times in 1000 lifetimes,\u201d he said. \u201cI will always cherish the memories, the wonderful campus, community and beautiful friends that I made during my time there.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur educators were very supportive and always looked to nurture our talents in any way they could. They gave personal attention and advice to each and every student &#8211; which made us feel cared for.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey believed in us, and their faith and encouragement has brought results and will continue to do so.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s certainly the case for Kirat, who is now back in India working as a freelance digital compositor for companies around the world, as well as a house photographer with Getty Images.<\/p>\n<p>His work has been licensed by the likes of Microsoft, Penguin Publishers, and Turkish Airlines among others.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www1.bournemouth.ac.uk\/why-bu\/graduate-student-stories\/graduate-stories\/kiratsinhs-story\">Read more of\u00a0Kiratsinh&#8217;s story.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Kiratsinh (Kirat) Jadeja decided he wanted to pursue a career in digital effects, there was only ever one choice for where he would study. \u201cBU&#8217;s Digital Effects course is renowned worldwide,\u201d he said. \u201cFrom recruitment heads of premier studios on LinkedIn to CG Forums, everyone recommended Bournemouth. \u201cI still remember asking a technical director&#8230;  <a class=\"excerpt-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/2018\/09\/27\/kiratsinhs-graduate-story\/\">Read more &raquo;<span class=\"sr-only\"> about Kiratsinh&#8217;s graduate story<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1268,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1658,336],"tags":[357,358,1921],"class_list":["post-14832","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog-archive","category-blogs-archive","tag-careers","tag-employability","tag-graduate-story"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14832","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\/1268"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14832"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14832\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15334,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14832\/revisions\/15334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}