The Apprentice Project

After my months of anxiety regarding placement replies, I've had four in the past week; sadly from the same company, but I like getting post so who cares. All four state that they have received my application and are in the process of 'getting back' to people. I've heard that phrase so many times in the past year, every time it seems to gets less promising. I'm sure i'll post on here if anything comes up.

Been busy hard at work the past couple of weeks with uni work, making an advert for a fictional 'BBC Three Interactive' television campaign at the minute. Character rigging in Lightwave 3D is skull bendingly tedious, I wonder if them Pixar geniuses find it any easier in Maya or whatever they use.

Had a really long chat with some unbiased lecturers about my placement predicament late last week and it really helped me get my head sorted. The morning I went in I mentioned to everyone about me just settling for a placement as an IT technician or similar and they all tore me to shreds. I really didn't know what to do then so I asked what the lecturer's advice would be. To cut a long story short, they told me how the company I've applied to do menial tasks for has very strong connections with the digital media industry and how, if I do manage to get a placement there, I would likely be able to get chatting to some people in multimedia's high places. Also they suggested something which i'd never even though about; to apply for very short unpaid placements at new media companies over the summer next year.

Just to top it off, as I was walking out of the labs I noticed a poster for the very place i've applied to be an IT technitian. It told of how a student doing multimedia computing, similar to me, loved the placement last year and it taught him a hell of a lot of stuff, plus the salary is £12,500. Hope I get an interview and I really hope I impress them enough to let me have a job.

I hope they 'get back' to me. Wouldn't it be good if you could have Pixar skills, just for a day.