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Tuesday 23 April 2013

Reading Festival AGAIN this year!

Being year 13, I have a fair few things I should be doing right now, Such as:

- Revising
- Doing course work
- prepping myself for next year

But I don't give a damn about any of those things, because I'm GOING TO READING FESTIVAL AGAIN THIS YEAR

Reading made my 2012. I don't even care about the horrendous break up with my Ex-Girlfriend or the fact that I had to work Christmas day. Reading festival made me happy no matter what.

A lot of people are gonna think I'm high right now. (Well, the few people that actually read this blog.) But I'm really not, I'm just so excited!

Yeahyeahyeahyeahyeah, this has nothing to do with Tech but Oh well, makes me happy :3 

Thanks for Reading!

Ben :)

Thursday 18 April 2013

Possibly starting a HND in Media and Film....

Hello!

A few weeks back, I decided to apply for a course in Media Production (level 3 = Equivalent to A levels) And got on without an actual interview, because I had all of the necessary requirements. What the lecturer that interviewed me suggested was that I go for the HND, which is almost like a degree. The reason I got on to this course without any proper interview is because I already have an A level in Film Studies and got a respectable grade.

Because I wrote a far more sophisticated Paragraph than the average GCSE student, he recommended that I go for the HND because of how easily I would pick up the level 3. Because I was the last of the 3 other people to be interviewed, we went for a tour to see how I would feel about some of the facilities. 

He showed me the studios and the equipment. The equipments was fantastic, as some of the specialised cameras (which only students going for master degrees could use) were worth nearly 20k. They have the same camera that the Hobbit was filmed on, which has lenses worth about £700. These cameras were nicknamed 'Reds' because of the company that produced them.

The studios were a little less impressive than the average Uni studio, but none the less, good for the course content. Students were given full use of the studios for their projects. For example: A group of 2nd year HND students were in one of the studios for 5 weeks solid, just creating the sets and shooting scenes for their films, which sounds pretty amazing considering my school only offered us a camera and told us to shoot a film where ever (although this is good experience for finding suitable locations).

So I am waiting to be contacted about my interview, which should hopefully be sometime soon. I should have enough UCAS points to secure a place on the course, but HNDs tend to be flexible which works out pretty well. 

Thanks for reading!

Ben.