Got my bachelor degree last year at Erasmushogeschool Brussel in Marketing & Communications. I mostly did my internships in advertising agencies so I’m pretty hooked on advertising. Had to pop the big question: “What’s next?!”.
I had some sort of job offer (a 6 month project) and one of my professors told me I should accept that offer (after all we are in some shitty “recession”). But she also told me that even if I did accept that offer I should keep track of all internet evolutions in advertising and communications. So it was up to me to figure out what would be the next step!?
Guess what? I did not accept the offer (cheers to you guys) but I did listen to the 2nd part of my professor’s advice – that’s why I’m taking on this post-graduate “Multimedia” at the Katholieke Hogeschool Mechelen. Classes have started for two weeks now and we’re a small but solid group of 7 persons, mainly with a communications background.
So now you know what I’ll be doing the next 9 months – actually you probably don’t. A little round up of what this post-graduate “Multimedia” contains:
- Web Technology: xHtml – CSS – JavaScript
- Content Management System: Drupal
- Audiovisual techniques: Premiere, we might have some After Effects, drawing Storyboards, basics of movie scripts etc..
- Photoshop
- Illustrator
- Flash
- Web Usability: Read: “Jakob Nielsen” and more..
- 3D & Animations: Autodesk 3ds Max (this is freaking complicated)
- Graphic aesthetics: Color use, Typography, etc.
- Interactive Marketing
- …
So this will tell you a little more on what I’ll be spending most of my time on from now. If you don’t care – you shouldn’t have read the whole thing. ;) I’ll be posting more on some of our classes (hopefully) very soon.
