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I have applied for student finance and completed the online form fully. I have applied for £9250 to cover the first year of university as you have to reapply for each year of university. As I am not of UK nationality I had to send my passport as evidence. After a couple of week's I received my passport back along with a form which I had to fill out. The form also requires more evidence. i am currently in the process of filling out the form and finding the evidence required. The form should be complete and sent off soon.

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MMBF Amar Adatia award (entered on: 28/04/2017) (Found out I won on 9/05/2017) 

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MMBF Amar Adatia award (entered on: 28/04/2017) (Found out I won on 9/05/2017) 

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I was told about a media competition set up by the actor/ producer of the film Epping forest college students got to work on: Dangerous game. In order to enter the competition you had to submit a piece of creative work that you worked on/ created this could be a short film music video ect... I decided to enter my music video from my first year of college but first I deiced to re-edit it to make it even better. After I re-edited it I enter the competition with little hope of winning. The prize for the winner would be a high end DSLR camera, a crew role on Amar's next film, publicity and the actual award. A short while later I got an email saying I had won, I couldn't believe that I had won. This award should lead me on to much greater things and hopefully be my first big step into the film industry. Winning a camera is fantastic but the actual reward is the crew role and publicity.

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Deciding on my top two university choices 

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Deciding on my top two university choices 

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Once I had seen the campus for each university I could clearly make up my mind of which university I would mostly like to go to. For my first choice I put Goldsmiths university and for my second I put Ravensbourne for the film course. I am very happy with my decision and even if I don't go to Goldsmiths I would still be very happy in Ravensbourne university.

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Goldsmiths University applicant day (26/04/2017)

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Goldsmiths University applicant day (26/04/2017)

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This was the very last applicant day of the year, I had to go to this one otherwise I would become quite unsure of what to do in terms of choices. On the applicant day I learnt a lot about the university in terms of facilities, course structure and extra curricular activities. On the day I went to a couple of lectures which were examples of what real lectures would be like. I also experienced what a normal class would be like. after all the taster session I went on a tour of the campus, I saw all the facilities and liked them a lot. It was near to exact to what I was looking for. The only part I didn't like was the TV studio control room which seemed a bit limiting everything else was great.

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I decided to go to the ravensbourne applicant evening to get a idea of what lessons would be like. I got to meet a lot of different students, I got to learn about the course structure and about the university structure. I ended up liking the university a lot and currently decided to have it as my first informal choice with Goldsmiths in second as I have not yet seen the University campus.

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in total I got four out of my five chosen universities. UAL and Westminster university declined me while all the others excepted. Although Westminster did offer me to do television compared to film and I got accepted for that course instead. As a whole I was very happy to get four out of my five offers. I also didnt mind getting declined form UAL university as it was my last choice anyway.

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Checklist of work to take to university interviews

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I had three interviews in total and got conditional offers from all three. I had two interviews for Ravensbourne university and one for the alternative Westminster course. The Ravensbourne interviews went very well they asked questions about equipment, course decisions and creativity. The university asked to see my work for the television course I brought a portfolio of my work and for the film course I made a show reel showcasing all my best work. They seemed to like my work a lot. Westminster university was a group interview, I was in a group with 4 other students and we were asked a lot of different questions to do with television. The interview went quite well but not as well as I hoped, but I still ended up getting an offer from them

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I was asked to make a new personal statement for Goldsmiths university focusing mainly on theoretical aspects.

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This is my final personal statement. In the personal statement I had to include all of the skills that I had. I included the ability to make effective pre-production materials because in any media course pre-production is incredibly important and me stating this represents that I have good planning skills. The courses that  applied for are all fairly creative, because of this I put down my ability to edit footage with adobe premier and film using a DSLR camera. These skills are crucial in the courses I applied for and represents a strong understanding of creative aspects of the media. I put down that I have skills with After effects. After effects is a very complicated visual effects program and requires a lot of planning and research. As I can use it, it demonstrates good planning ,research and creative skills. I have also put Timekeeping skills. Timekeeping is very important in university courses as there is always a given time period in order to complete work.

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Originally for work experience we got to choose a placement out of a small list, but a while later my class found out that all the placements we got to choose were no no longer valid. We were given new choices and I was very interested in an advertising company which make their adverts using CGI called HMX media. The company is based in Cancery lane in London. After doing research into the company I was even more interested in them and decided to do work experience there. The college then contacted the work place and a couple of days later I found out the work place had accepted me for work experience. I was required to do a minimum of 30 hours and had to work from 10am to 4pm with an hours break. I quickly realized that this amount of hours would not be enough so every single day for the week I worked till 5pm instead of 4pm, the company did not mind this at all. The company was split into two parts the production team and the creative/ CGI team. I was working on the production team. My tasks involved finding stock images to be used in the adverts, finding locations that fit in with a brief, completing very long Microsoft excel tables (for an online shop: was a simple task but took a whole day to complete). I also had to find images of a specific mode and model of transportation and had to take videos of a product interface. During the week I also sat in a couple of meetings, this was very interesting, engaging and taught me a lot of new advertising termenology. One of the largest tasks involved cleaning out a store room full of equipment and miscellaneous items and organizing lockers full of hard drives. The task took a couple of days to complete but I was quite successful and helped out the work place a lot. The work experience went very well, I learnt a lot during the week and also got to see the environment of a professional media work place

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In the end I filled all five of my choices in the UCAS form. All the universities I applied for were based in London. I applied for Ravensbourne university two times(for different subjects). All my choices are associated with either television, film or both as that is what I would like to do in the future.

Goldsmiths university: Media and communications

Ravensbourne University: Digital film production
Digital television production

Westminster university: Film production

UAL university: Film and television studies.

As a whole I am very happy with my choices.

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I saw SAE institute at the UCAS design your future event and became quite interested in the institute. The institute works the same way as a normal university but you get the degree over a two year course. I found this quite interesting so I decided to go for a tour of their London Campus. The building was quite small and was the opposite of what I was expecting. I expected great advanced facilities but instead they were very basic and didn't offer much in a creative aspect even though they did have industry standard software. The institute didn't stand out to me at all and was not what I was looking for at all. At the same time I did not like the price as it was £9250 a year but half of that was a student loan and the other half was out of your own money paid directly to SAE. In the end I was glad that I went as I got to see what it was like for myself and narrowed down the choice for universities even more. At the same time it completely put me off institutes.

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Ravensbourne university open day (19/11/16)

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Ravensbourne university open day (19/11/16)

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I went to Ravensbourne university open day to see what the film and television courses were like. I first went to a talk about what the film course was like. The talk included what previous projects were like, how the teachers will support you, what opportunities there are, what previous students have gone on to do and what the co structure is like. After the talk I went on a tour of the whole building. We went over the whole building covering the art departments, media departments including studios, production departments (for props) and the fashion department (for costumes). We were told that collaboration is a very important thing in the university and they try to get students to collaborate as much as possible.

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My class had a talk on student finance by the college career's adviser. The Talk covered what a student finance loan is, how to apply for it and how repaying the loan works. It also covered maintenance loans and why they are useful and why you might need them. The talk for me was incredibly useful as I was feeling quite nervous about the financial side of university, but the talk cleared things up a lot for me.

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Before going to the design your future event I writ up some questions that I could ask universities and students that go there.

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UCAS design your future event (15/11/16)

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UCAS design your future event (15/11/16)

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On the 15th of November my class went to the UCAS design your future event. At the event there were a lot of creative universities such as art universities. I went over to a lot universities and asked them some prepared questions. most of the universities that I went to were based in London. I got a lot of useful information from the event, and it opened my eyes to what universities I could go to, I got a lot of prospectus's which will help me further in what subjects I could do related to the media. If i'm interested in the university I will end up booking an open day if there is one.

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I started my research by looking at the university league tables, I did this as the table has all the universities in one place and in order. I also used the university league tables as I would prefer to go to a university which is 60th or higher. In terms of location I would like to stay local and not have to live at the university campus, by traveling back and fourth I would save some money. There are many great universities in London so I do not feel like I would be missing out on anything.

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My class was given a talk about university by the college's careers advisor. In this talk we signed up for UCAS which is going to be very useful in the future as I do want to go to university. We were told how UCAS is very important and without it you cant apply for university. She told us about the statistics of universities and what universities previous media students went to.