Monday 25th September - First day, First post

Started at Cyfle in Cardiff Bay as an interactive media trainee, there are 10 of us who have 6 months of intensive exposure to all Cardiff bay can offer. The Scheme is called DIMENSION 10, its a full time, 9-5 course run with a large input from the industry.Up until Christmas we will be studying:

• Flash


• Dreamweaver


• Photoshop


• Illustrator

This is just a basic outline, im sure we will have random thing chucked at us throughout the next few months.

After Christmas we will be working on real briefs from industry leading up to the completion of a portfolio of work.

It has been nerve racking having to quit my job in order to pursue this course and I have not allowed myself to get too exited or optimistic about starting. But now in here im really looking forward to getting stuck in.

Today was mainly an introduction to the course - filling in forms and ticking boxes.

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Tuesday 26th September - Intro

A pile of information came our way today, We had a "Primer" lecture, it gave us an overview of multimedia, its creation and distribution. Getting a place on the scheme assumes that you have at least a basic knowledge and interest in the digital world, But it was very useful to start from scratch with an concise overview. A brief history of the web was very interesting, Its nice to know that is was started as a non commercial entity.

We were given our first brief, a 15 minute presentation on an interactive media pioneer. I got:

Tim Berners-Lee

I had not heard of him but most others seem to have. If you are as bad at remembering names as I am he was the man who invented the Web. I have had a search around wikipedea and google as well as the W3C website (he is the founder) and discovered among other things that he seem to be a very nice man. There is a lot of relevant information out there which should make a good presentation, and powerpoint is always fun to use.