Well into the new term, and I've been feeling quite awash with new, difficult, technical stuff that I'm having to manfully grapple with.  To begin with... good old photoshop!  Will I ever get the hang?

The Digital Graphic Design module has so far been a real pleasure.

I've chosen to focus on my own home-made cake company (which doesn't actually exist).  By asking myself a number of questions using a design brief sheet, I have come up with quite a comprehensive brief, done lots of research to arrive at my design specification, had the enormous treat of creating my first ever mood board, and am now at the stage of concept development, ie sketching ideas of how I would like the final piece to look.



The Joy of moodboards...




My initial sketches took place at 2.30am on Monday morning, not being able to sleep I found myself thinking about the project, so grabbed a pencil and paper and sat up in bed sketching my thoughts out because I knew I'd never remember them in the morning!

To counteract this rather pleasurable module there are the horrors of Blender, a 3D modelling programme which is almost certainly not as bad as I think it is.  I'm finding it really hard to get my head around, in spite of the endless patience of Chris Hughes, our tutor.  I will be surprised if I manage to get a grip of this in one term, but it's possible I suppose.  It feels a bit like maths and I seem to have a brain blockage to anything that is too mathematical-seeming but I will persevere and do my best to get it.

My wonky wind turbine created in Blender

And on to the radio module....

Radio work is always fun.  So far we've written, recorded and edited some news, and today wrote and transmitted a live 20 minute programme.  This went really well for everyone.  It was great to have Tutor Trevor there to support us and make sure no one made any major cock-ups.