A bullet journal is both a day planner, diary, and a written meditation. Bullet journalling turns the chaos of coordinating your life into a streamlined system that helps you be more productive and reach your personal and proffessional goals. With sections to log your daily activities, monthly calendar, notes, long-term wants and more, your bullet journal is customized to your life. It is a next-level diary for not only writing, but drawing. Instead of blank, lined pages, a bullet journal contains sections to log daily to-dos, keep a monthly or weekly calendar, jot down notes, track both physiological and mental health, plus record both short and long term goals, significant events and milestones.
Bullet journals can be used for chores lists, about me’s, supply lists, weekly grocery lists, snack lists, movies to watch, books to read, and places to go etc.
I could use this system for future projects like the fantasy brief and other work because this can help me keep track of time and know when I need to be doing things. I can see how much time is left until the deadline and plan out what to do like finish character designs, finish poster, finish animation, etc. I can also, log my feelings and mood and mention if I am getting stressed about finishing on time, so that I can refer to the journal later to see what I need to do differently next time. I can use the planner to put ideas in for my work, shedule when to watch a movie or series for inspiration for my brief.
Here I have an example of a week in term time
Week commencing November 10th
Monday – Watch a movie for inspiration for an annimation project, research animation artists
Tuesday – College, try to answer questions, at least one, talk to other students, complete reshape effect blog
Wednesday – Online class, try to join in on chat and even have michrophone on, complete tasks, work on lego tutorials
Thursday -Finish other blogs, check discord for any chats, do research on careers in animation
Friday – Check for any outstanding work that needs completing, look at blog checklist, practice animation tecniques.
Saturday – Free day
Sunday – Free day if nothing to complete for college
Term 1 personal targets:
| Stay on track with lesson work and deadlines. 1. Make notes or personal reminders. 2. Making personal schedule / deadline planner 3. Blog checklist |
| Engaging with others and speaking out more in class. 1. Aim to answers more questions in class, 2. Adding to others answers, 3. Reach to others in discord |
| Research skills required for Lead Animator. 1. Accessing software, 2. Looking job profiles at ILM, 3. Build a show reel. |