The Pursuit of Graphics A.K.A. The curse of media
So, a wee bit of an educational back story here. I left secondary school having failed most of my subjects, because, as I may have mentioned in an earlier blog, I’m an unmotivated chap. I did, however, get a pretty decent grade in Graphics, mainly because I enjoyed the subject. Went to college, not being able to get in to the subjects I was passionate about (art and graphics), and instead had to take GCSE Maths, English and compromise on a third lesson. Since the qualifications I had weren’t enough to get me in to A Level Graphics, I had to take BTECH Media, which they assured me would be just like graphics. This time, I dropped out, because, as I said, unmotivated chap. Left with no qualifications. Went to an adult education centre, left with qualifications for maths, english, IT and retail. Re-applied for college, this time I was sure I’d get in to graphics. Got a place for said lesson, I was chuffed, up until a month or so before beginning, when I learned the college I’d be attending wouldn’t be running any graphics classes, but it was okay, because they’d placed me in to an equally awesome class: MEDIA. I eventually passed that media class, barely (because unmotivated chap). But was it worth it? Kinda…
The perks of a cursed subject.
When I say it was kinda worth it, we should probably look at the points of view of other people. If you were to ask my tutors, they’d probably say “No, he was an unmotivated chap, and he never completed his assignments”. If you were to ask my classmates, they’d probably say “Wait, who was Alfie?”. I, on the other hand, found the experience enjoyable. Unlike the first media class I went to where we only ever learned about print media, we learned about script writing, directing, advertising, stuff like that. I met -well, sat quietly in a room near- some ‘interesting’ people. Found out about some interesting low budget movies, some books, some software, all pretty awesome stuff. And even though I never got around to actually making a movie, it’s something I’ve been wanting to do for almost a year now. I have about 10 scripts written, some short films, one for an episode of a friend’s web series (www.youtube.com/lordjerrington) and a few unfinished concepts. At some point, I plan on filming something, but I’m, as I said before, an unmotivated chap, and I lack confidence when it comes to my work. But yeah, cheers.
I AM ALFIE 