Yesterday I was at the NUT's War Gaming and Role playing society's first meeting. It is not yet fully established but you have to give them credit for being highly enthusiastic at what they do and I am sure that in just a few months or even weeks time these guys are going to be fully operational and running.
However my fascination lies in the idea I got just after I left the meeting. Thinking of them being so enthusiastic about what they do and love I stumbled upon my own little wimpy dreams. I love short films, music clips, little stories that you can find on youtube and vimeo and I am blown away how that can become your life, work, a great hobby and a superb portfolio. So far couldn't find myself in an environment that would appeal to that or surrounded by people who would say that they would love to do the same, till this point. And this is where we finally got to the inspiration part.
I generally thought that there are not many people on my course who came here knowing much about production of all sorts of things that we do, and will do, and maybe they are not really interested in this stuff since its just a start of the course, but how horribly wrong I was and I am very sorry for that! Going through blogs of our guys and girls on Reflective journal I turned round some great works and ideas and found a general enthusiasm about their future works and jobs and that made me think, even dream possibly. Guys, I want to make a proposition. How about we create a "Short film, music video and all sorts of our Multimedia arts field's making society sort of thing"? Through this we can escalate our works, teach each-other, learn new skills and gain lots of experience. This would help create great portfolios and maybe even workplaces when we eventually could end up working with TrentTV, Fm or even become youtube partners. This is a pretty big and ambitious idea but I am pretty sure we could make it. We still got 3 years of work here and all the facilities we need so why not use them.
Thank you if you read to this point and I hope you agree with me.
Also a big thanks to you guys for inspiring me either thorough your work, blogs, or just general involvement:
Deano
http://deanoparker.blogspot.com/
Bartholomew
http://bartholabazaz.tumblr.com/tagged/ntumultimedia
Joshua
http://joshesuniblog.blogspot.com/
Kalab
http://kalab92.blogspot.com/
Kamil
http://kamill.wordpress.com/
Kieran
http://kieranm1992.blogspot.com/
Nick Rood
http://nick-rood.blogspot.com/
Nima
http://nimahedayati.blogspot.com/
Rachel
http://rachelgman.blogspot.com/
Beckie
http://beckypike.blogspot.com/
Tom
http://thomasmroberts.blogspot.com/
Zoe
http://zoestroud90.blogspot.com/
Thank you once again. You do understand this list doesn't particularly mean anything but my appreciation for your work and a big thanks and I am sorry if I offended someone in any way.
Yeah guys, I hope you'll think a bit about it.
Cheers,
Ed.
Aaah man, just been looking at everyone's blogs and thinking how much mines sucks! Need to get my act in gear big time.
ReplyDeleteI would love this to push everyone forward dude.
ReplyDeleteHope it moves me too)
I'm up for collaborating on any projects, be it film, photography, audio, website etc. A group showreel could be a great side project- maybe get willing people working on their section of the christmas break (a month is quite a while)?
ReplyDeleteJust drop me a text on 07790785648 :)