Well hi! Not gonna lie, I've never written a blog before, but there we go. I'm heading to University and thats all about doing new things, so this is one of many new things I am sure to do!
So anyway, I'm Sam! 20 years old and off to UCA Maidstone tomorrow to start my Broadcast Media course and I couldn't be more excited. I'm all packed now, ready to go and arrive at my halls of residence at noon tomorrow.
I guess I should put a little bit about myself here. Over the past year and a half or so, I have been on a gap year and working as a Supervisor in a pub, although all of my responsibilities practically made me assistant manager, just without the official title! It was actually a really enjoyable year, without having gone travelling or anywhere on holiday, but I have enjoyed time out of education and spent in the real world! I play the guitar and the piano, having been in a band a few years back. I have also spent the best part of my life on stage, either with theatre companies or within my old school/sixth form college.
I am very much looking forward to every aspect of University. Meeting new people, living by myself grants me proper independence, which is probably one of the most exciting things of all. Although, nowhere near as exciting as starting my course on the 30th, which I am so psyched about.
It's one thing just being at University, but what stood out for me most about doing Broadcast Media at UCA, is the fact that I get the majority of my course taught in a real life proper TV Studios! And not only that, apparently we can work on any show filmed there for experience, all we need to do is go and ask at reception. It is literally a dream come true!
I haven't actually done anything really Media related at all before, but as I mentioned before, new things and learning! I am eager to sink my teeth into the course, give it a real good go and hopefully come out on top.
I have however done a lot of acting and directing in my time, but only for stage. The way I see it, having directed a few plays over the past couple of years, I can always use some of my skills that I have developed from that, and directly apply them to directing behind a camera. I can imagine it is quite different, but at least I have that bit of related experience!
We have been given the title of our first project a couple of weeks in advance to starting our course. It's called 'The Meeting' and we must write a ten page script based on that title. I do have a few ideas for this floating around in my head, but as soon as I develop them more I shall write them in a separate post in the next couple of days!
Ciao for now!
