Since I updated the Term 1 Tutorial post quite recently, this one will be much smaller as there aren’t any major differences or updates. I recently had my tutorial for Term 2 however and I want to document what was discussed.
With Nicky, we talked about my plans for after university and if I had put any thought into the more long-term aspects of my career path. I’m not certain but I do have somewhat of an idea so I explained that I am planning on working in lots of different places such as small animation studios or big companies like Disney in order to gain as much experience as I can and learn about how it is to work in the industry as part of a team. I think that this will be greatly beneficial because animation is more often than not, a group process and I would love to be a part of some big projects! This will also help much later down the line for my second plan, which is to start a company/business of my own (for animation of course) and maybe run a studio one day – hence why the experience would be needed. This is a very far-fetched dream at the moment and I would need to work myself up to animation director somehow for it to happen, but if it is still my goal at that point, I believe that I can do it.
We also talked about the course currently and how I’m handling it. Like last time, I said that I am very focused on the project and that there is a lot of work to do but it’s going well. I am proud to be up-to-date with the lesson blogs and I am getting on with things for the CP. I had to make some changes to the schedule to account for upcoming travels but I explained this in the Term 1 post and the Production Management post as well. In terms of qualification and career, I am looking to Staffordshire and Teeside as my top two uni choices and am on track for a DMM to get in, so here are the SMART targets.
Career: Continue developing the skills needed for the animation courses I am aiming for, through the Creative Project.
Character: To make changes to my scheduling and final product plans to accommodate the current time delegation in different areas of my life.
Qualification: To pause rebranding work and focus on the project in order to achieve a DMM (minimum entry requirement for uni).