Uni Folio

http://www.flinders.edu.au/courses/undergrad/bca-digital-media/digital-media-entry-requirements.cfm

Due: 28 Nov 

DVD, Portfolio and other supporting material

Applicants who wish to apply for the Digital Media production program in the Bachelor of Creative Arts must submit examples of their original work. The entire application should be no more than 20 items.

This work may include:

• A DVD or CD copy of any screen-based work (no more than 15 items).
• Written work, short-scripts, storyboards or other examples of creative conceptual planning, including concept documents or works in development (no more than 10 pages).
• Examples of photography, original art work, graphic design or other visual material (a small portfolio, ie no more than 10 examples). Can be either printed, on-line or on disc.
• Evidence of an ability in the producing or production management of digital media products, including preparation of budgets and production planning/user documentation, grant proposals (no more than 10 pages).
• Other materials you feel would strengthen your application (no more than 10 pages).

Applicants must also submit a statement of no more than two pages (500 words) in length, explaining their reasons for wanting to study for a Bachelor of Creative Arts (Digital Media) and indicating their preparedness for this type of study.

In this Statement, the applicant should answer the following questions:

1. Why do you wish to undertake Digital Media at Flinders?
2. Where would you like to work on completion of your training? 

Folio options:

- walk cycles

- game cycle

- heavy vs light

- dance

- model

- model animation

- warehouse model

- title animation

- commissioned trailer?

Reflection

Where do I go from here?
My plans from here are mainly to finish my folio for Uni by the 28th. Look into my career options by finding people in the industry to talk to. I've come to terms with the fact that my passion is editing, but I'm also interested in the film and animation industry and would definitely want to build my skills there. I would like to contact someone who's in editing as a profession, and look into how they got there. And if they have any advice.

What's out there in terms of:

• Future employment (existing companies, industry sector)

My plan is to do internships for the hope that will help when looking for future employment. But at the moment because I don't know the exact job I wish to pursue I don't know what existing companies I would be looking into.

• How things are changing (eg. big companies, grass-roots indie, mobile media vs desktops, cloud services, 2d vs 3d, local vs national/internet)

There might be a change occurring in the industry but that won't effect me because I'll be learning along the way with the change. 

• Support for creating work (money: government and crowd source online)

In terms of money for projects, I would probably want to go to the online community because the people who would donate would also be interested in the final product.

• My strategy for moving forward

Develop a YouTube reputation with things such as B Team Animation
Find a small job related to the industry (even at EB games or Game Traders)

Editing/Screen Production Folio

I recently did a Marvel Cinematic Universe trailer on my channel and my sound editing has really improved since I've started this course. There are some points I was unhappy with but couldn't do anything about it because of the file, but I worked with what I had. I'm thinking of putting this video in my folio/showreel for the Screen Production course I want to go to. I did some research about what they look for in Film Folio's for Uni and it said they just want to see if you can show a story, which I think I have a few different videos that show that as well as some projects from this course. 

B Team Animation

I'm aware that the future business stuff is a very big project and for now, we've put it aside until we finish Year 12. The thing with the business is that there's a lot of stress for funding and program costs and finding an office etc.

But Katelin and I have other ideas and concepts that we're going to do, without that stress. We're planning on one short animation with a max of 3 minutes. We're not too fussed about when this gets done, but our first step is just coming up with an Art style with inspiriation images. 

One other little project is creating the logo for our name, B Team Animation and maybe even a short logo animation. We're planning to do a brainstorm of ideas before even deciding to work on the logo and animation.

Business Jobs

Skills I need for future business. We divided up jobs between us and chose what we prefer, as well as including the other things we know we'll be doing. These are my responsibilities:

• Manager of Accounting & Finance

Right now, I'm doing the budget for the Comission but also just to get estimates of how much money we'd need even if we don't get the Comission. I'll be looking into the possibility of a kickstarter/plausible and what people could get if they pledge a specific amount of money.

• Director and Co-Director

I wouldn't be the Director for our main production, The Last Exorcist, but we plan to do other short series. Especially if we don't get the comission, the plan is to do short animations instead of our large project first. These would be the projects I would oversee, produce and direct. 

• Animator

I'd be doing 3D and 2D animation. 3D for The Last Exorcist, 2D for the shorts we plan to create.

• Voice Actor

I'm starting to look at tutorials and videos, notable Jonah Scott's videos so far. And I'm looking into getting the same Microphone and equipment as him. I'm thinking that I'll open a blog for voice acting attempts of characters from shows and movies. Probably orphan black characters because theirs a large amount of characters and different voices. 

• Editor

Maddie has said that she definitly wants me to edit the trailers together, I've done a few trailers in the past but recently I made one that shows my improvement in editing. This is a trailer I did for an RPG on tumblr. I'd like to edit the animations together too, but since I haven't done that yet but I've done trailers, I only know for sure that I could do the trailer edits.

• Manager of Content

This is managing our scheduling, as well as what content we're doing and when we'll be working on it. Mainly I got this because I'm already scheduling things that we're meant to have done if my mates want to have the trailer done by next year.

• Manager of Podcasts

This is a way in the future thing I'll be doing when we start to do Podcasts. Which might be long down the track, or earlier as a way to get our audio skills up.

• Manager of Merchandise

One of the main ways productions get money is through merch and marketing and this is something I have a little bit of experience with. I'm thinking that we could also sell fan designs using the same concept that DFTBA uses. They have a royalty agreement that really like the fan gets half the profit and so do we, but this is once things are out there and we have a community.

• Producer

I don't know enough of what a producer does to be sure that this is a responsibility of mine but it's definetly a job I need to look into. Producing and managing is something I'd like to do but I need to understand more about it first.

Editing

Although I enjoy animation, I think my true passion is definitely film editing. I've been editing clips together since I was 10. From what I've read here, this would be my focus but I'd still want to get a generalisation of skills. I don't think I would get to film editing and stay there, I'd want to move between a lot of things, from animating, directing etc. I will enjoy editing the most, but I couldn't do it forever. I'd love to go between a lot of different jobs, which is a good thing in this industry.

My Future

UNIVERSITY OPTIONS:

• Bachelor of Screen Production

Full Time

25 people get each year

4th Year is a proposal project for Honors

To get in, (20 minutes) Portfolio/show-reel, interview, written statement, curriculum vitate and referee details.

ATAR: 60+

• Bachelor of Digital Media

Full time

25 people each year

To get in, Portfolio, written statement, curriculum vitae and referee details also required.  Short-listed applicants may be required to attend an interview.

ATAR: 60+

CAREER, Start company, partnership with two other people.

Skills needed to be a: 

• Producer
• Manager of Accounting & Finance
• Director and Co-Director
• Animator
• Voice Actor
• Editor
• Manager of Content
• Manager of Podcasts
• Manager of Merchandise

Eventually I would like to go into other directing and internships in America but there's a lot I'd like to do before I get there. Including starting the company. 



WORK EXPERIENCE:

• 3rd Year of Bachelor of Screen Production they can organise work experience with successful companies.
• Rooster Teeth (a company a lot like what we hope to achieve) has internships. 
• http://www.bbc.co.uk/careers/work-experience/
• Have worked for the Marketing team at herbalife for a week (Year 10 work experience)