Back to uni, Third Year begins now!

Today our year returned to NUA for our project brief, as Year 3's. It feels like a very long journey in a short space of time! Who would have thought 2 years would pass so quickly!

On Tuesday we, along with the Year 2's had a Welcome Back speech which brought everything snap back into reality, it's all going to end next year and in a way I don't want to leave! A lot has changed with our course projects, I was preparing for BA 7 and 8, the projects are now labelled BA3a (which is Research and Development) and BA3b (Resolution and Innovation). This is the brief for BA3a.

We are going to be furthering our speciality this year, for me, as last time I spent so much time trying 3D I think its going to be a bit hard as I have to re-learn all the 2D tricks I learnt last time and then keep progressing from there, I will be going down the concept art route as I feel this is where my strength is (I will also talk more to my tutors about this and see if they can see something I am missing with my current path)

During today's lecture Mark and Marie-Claire took us through what would be expected of us during this time, and had a look through our timetables, we would also be getting mini briefs as working on a project for months would probably get us all in a creative slump, so to keep us active and to give us some experience in working to a specific time, we will be doing 5 tasks

• Task One [Week 01 – 02] 
• Task Two [Week 03 – 04] 
• Task Three [Week 06 – 08] 
• Task Four [Week 10 – 13] 
• Task Five [Week 14 – 15] 

We were given the word 'INSECT' for our first task, as I am going down the concept art route I feel I will be creating some form of character within this word.

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To get me going after taking in all this information I downloaded the timetables and like last year I have sectioned off different times for different activities. Because we have to hand our dissertation by the beginning of January I will be devoting more time than I normally do to CS as I really want to do well on it this time, we were advised to do 500 words a week to get the backbone of the work written down as a draft piece which will help when we need advice from the CS lectures.

Overall I am slightly overwhelmed by the prospect of this year, but I am rather excited as well. I have a fair idea of what I would like to research for both my studio work and my CS work.