Better late than never

PPD task one - today is the day I finally embark on the dreary and wordy journey of a real SWOT analysis...


Overall my strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats are going to be listed alongside job roles I could fall into and am interested in... I then work out what skills I'm missing and work a plan out to fix this so I leave university with the most skills I possibly can...


Strengths - Storytelling, composition, drawing, communication, presentation, digital skills, patience amd acting.

Weaknesses - Software skills, model making (sculpture), lighting and drawing skills.

Opportunities - Sneaking into life rawing classes with the first years, work on software available - Maya is free online on which to practice and learning to model make with Dave.

Threats - Time element (not much time left?), deadlines - things will take priority if they need handing in, lack of inspirations and for a lack of things to list, bing ill...

Specialist Job roles I like the sound of

Storyboard artist
Layout artist
Compositor
Editor
Animator
Model Maker
Illustrator
'Lighter'

New skills I need for these job roles

Storyboard software skills and knowledge!!
Premier pro experience
Better Drawing skills - incl. light and shadow
Flash experience
Photoshop and After Effects improvement of skills
Shake understanding
Model making
Greater Colour Theory knowledge
Understanding lighting to represent daytimes - or a more technical understanding rather than theatrical...
Maya understanding


Learning plan with this in mind

Model making class with Dave
Research and document Colour Theory and lighting
Download and play with the Student Maya package
Research the software called 'Shake'
Steal Andrew to teach me how to use Flash
Practice Photoshop and After Effects further
Try out and improve my skills in Premier
Sneaking into life drawing classes this week with the first years...


These targets will be easy to cover in one way or another before the course ends this year...


Long typed up post over


Cheers