Luke Dench – Innovation

Mock Interviews Information and more

// April 16th, 2008 // Comments Off // ATRiuM

Hello,

I’ve spoken with Jason who is taking over the organising of  the mock interviews due to Emma’s absence, and he’s informed me that on Thursday 17th he will be able to give us further details with regards to scheduled times, dates and location for students from each course of the Design department. Be sure to prepare for the interviews and bring with you examples of your work, as a show reel, a sketchbook, etc.

Furthermore, for Design For Media students, the date scheduled to present your pitch is Monday 21st April, in order to show your work in progress for your Final Major Project and give other students and your tutors a chance to give you feedback before you begin working methodically on the project to get it finished.

As a reminder, I just want to tell you that the Final Major Project is an Open Brief, in other words as with the D&AD & YCN competitions, you can produce your own project and in effect your own brief. Let your creativity loose and produce anything you want, having seen your previous work, I can’t wait to see what will be your latest outcome!

Jason’s confirmed that the deadline is the last day of the week before he needs to mark everyone’s assignments before the end of summer term on 6th June.

One last request I’d like to make is if you can take some time to fill out the Student Survey, it’s located at http://www.thestudentsurvey.com - more info here http://glamlife.glam.ac.uk/news/1633/517/

Your voice and actions shape your world and affects those who are around you as well. If you are happy or unhappy about something on the course, apart from speaking with me and your tutors, the Student Survey is a good way to express your thoughts and it will give the University a better understanding to improve the course for everyone.  

 

To recap, the dates relevant are as follows:

All students:

Thursday 17th April – Mock Interviews further information

Friday 6th June – University’s end of Summer Term / Academic Year

 

Design For Media Students:

Monday 21st April – Final Major Project Pitch Presentation

Friday 23rd May – Final Major Project Deadline

 

N.B.: A copy of this email is located at:- http://www.lukedench.co.uk/atrium/mock-interviews-information-and-more

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If you have any queries about what I said, or you didn’t understand something, or there is something you want to know but haven’t been able to find out, please do not hesitate to drop me an email. I have a good 24 hour maximum response time to emails, calls and messages.

Warm regards,

Luke

Critical Research Module Code

// March 6th, 2008 // Comments Off // ATRiuM

Hi everyone,

Rachel has put up the dissertation cover sheet on Blackboard, it’s the same as the one I’ve offered previously for you to download, at this link.

In order to access the Blackboard Course Module, you need to go to BlackBoard and enrol on the Module CRITICAL RESEARCH (2007/08). The module code is DG3S10_2007_V1. The files are located under Course Materials.

At the time of this message, the module on Blackboard has three documents up, which I’m providing below for you.

Dissertation Cover Sheet

Sample List of Illustrations

Critical Research Guidelines

On a final note, I’ve gone to Trefforest and asked about printing and binding your dissertations to submit them on Monday. The reprographics department there was very helpful and informative. They said that it will cost £1.20 for binding the book and roughly £1.00 for printing the pages (black and white), estimated at around 30 pages which should be more than enough for 5,000-5,500 words along with appendixes, bibliography, illustrations, contents, etc. It can be done on the same day, and the binding can even take place while you wait, so it will be a fast service!

Consider printing the work at home if you want to speed things up.