Most of this week has been spent either in Steves office or thinking over where I would like to go from here. I seriously thought I could crack this course and also put the hours in my spare time to study more but that just hasn't been the case. I have found it difficult coming back into full time education, always having something on the back of your mind and always looking into books to learn new things as well as go over things learnt. Where as from a work point of view you do your shift then thats it! I'm not thinking one bit about quiting the course but more on changing to the part time course, all I would be missing is 6 units then the rest which isn't that much on paper but the amount of work sounds something which could hassle me if I keep going the way I am.
I've just got settled into a new job where the hours are on evenings so i'm looking at seeing if my college work improves with me doing work during the day then when coming back from work nackered on a night. I'm hoping it should work out fine and with me coming in for 2 extra days next week to catch up even more I should be fine.
Only bad side of the new job is that its in a beer shop! Just when i'm trying to cut down too! I just can't win lately!
Anyhow, to the work side.
I knew I had a lot of work to do and with me still not fully completed my contents for the back to basics assignment I have been working on getting that finished during my spare time. I have been finding it hard as i'm learning words for the first time and rather then just type various things from websites I am trying to understand them so I can put them in my own words. I did a lot of work on various computing languages at a college course I studied a few year ago (and wished I haven't had chucked the work away now) but my memory isn't the sharpest and can't think at all what I put for any of them.
Over the weekend I am just planning to work entirely on back to basics, NO drinking, NO outside distractions. I am just turning my phone off and just concentrating fully on what needs to be done.
I missed John's extra lesson on Tuesday due to work, I just took too much things on and I ended up forgetting important things like this. John helped me a lot last time and some of the things he had said for me to do has happended. I will definatly not miss the next one.
On Wednesday I was just hoping we crack on with our assignment in which we did. I had a few sketches of how I wanted my website designing but the colours was all wrong. After reading the colour index book I found a lot of good colour schemes, I was only wanting to use 2 colours and found them quite easy from the book. After a bit of feedback from James in the afternoon just really about how I was going to put my text (I was going to use darkish red background with black text) in which James suggested I should just use a white background with the red around the edges and his feedback was very helpfull.
I got a lot of work done on Wednesday both screen designs are nearly finished now and with a couple more hours work I feel I can finish them.
Thursday we came in to a rather intresting task, we had to draw 3 "Skyscraper Banners" and 3 "Square Banners" freehand and Steve gave us a picture on the board and a bit of text and in 2 1/2 minutes we had to design banners with the information given. Then we got another picture and had to do the same again but this time in 2 minutes, then it went down to 1 1/2 mins, then 1 min then down to 30 seconds.
In 3 minutes I felt I had more time to think and plan what I was going to design which can be a bad thing at times as you get to be neater with the work. Then at 1 1/2 mins I thought this was just right and the ideas came to really fast and I just noted them down as quick as possible. In 30 seconds I couldn't hardly tell what I had put down! And struggled when we had to design neat versions of them later. When we got around to the neat versions I knew which ones to chose straight away and thought they looked good sketched out and am looking forward to designing them in Photoshop.
Just before dinner Steve gave me the image restoration assignment which I missed last week and got straight to work on it in the afternoon. I have done a lot of work already on this and you can see the difference so after a good few more hours on it I should have this sorted too. Really enjoyed Thursday as I am really keen on learning Photshop.
Hopefully by the next time I publish my blog a lot of work will have completed all ready for hand in to Steve on our next feedback meeting.
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If you decide to do HNC there is always that option that Steve mentioned if things change in the future.
It is difficult to get through all the work when you have a job, your spare time is usually for relaxing ans socialising. I do wish I had done something like this when I was your age as I would be sorted.
If you do join Drew and I on HNC you would be most welcome in our feedback group, however we would want cheap booze.
Whichever decision you make I'm sure it will be the right one.
Cheers Dean,
Steve told me to have a chat about it with you or Drew and we've had a chat about it a few week ago, but its all down to me now. I ain't rushing any decisions as i've now learnt to put my college work first now and am fully motivated for it, just wish I could have sorted this out a few week/month ago.
Cheers again tho Dean.
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