Hi guys my name is Afseena I am currently a first-year student studying at the
University of Sunderland, and the course I am studying is graphic design. The
reason why I chose the course is because I had first learned about it at GCSE level
and I loved the way how graph design works and how it revolves around us in
every way shape and form. I chose to learn to study at because a family
member had went as well as my friends and they told me positive feedback about
the University and how enjoyable it was for them. I am finding the course really
good we are doing digital and physical research, we are doing a lot of workshops
and we're learning new things that I didn't know that I would, I could do. The course
involves different semesters having different modules and every module is
different, so for my first year I done one module, so that's when you first start,
and I done and paper exhibition and within that I could do a paper exhibition,
a catalogue about paper and a module journal. For my second semester that
I'm coming at now I have to do motion graphics, which I've never learned before,
so it's really fun and exciting and then I'm doing an essay as well as another
module which includes photography in it. so you can see that graphic design
varies and a lot of things it is basically all of your art subjects in one.
The common misconceptions about graphic design is assignments, people think that
we don't do hard assignments, we just have to submit really really
quickly easily, I just have to draw and submit, but that's not how it goes we
have to do physical and digital as I said before and with our assignment we don't
just upload one thing at a time we have to upload like a whole package of stuff,
for example my previous assignment I'd done, I had to do a packaging tube
and with my packaging tube I had to do, erm , I had to submit a physical as well
as digital work and I had to submit around
seven things and it was stressful, but it was good to do because you're learning
and every course is going to be hard no matter what course you do it will be
hard, and you just have to get through real focus and stay calm and keep doing
it. The second misconception is, essays, I've had a lot of people come up to me
saying use don't do written work, but we do, you have to do a lot of written work,
and even if we're not doing an essay we have to do written work in our module journal
so it's like a progression book, but we have to write about how we're doing our
project and what we've done and how we've done it. As well as that we do an
essay once a year. The last misconception that I'm going to talk about is skills
and techniques. Not every graphic designer is good at everything
for example, for me, I am not good at drawing. I'm practicing to draw
but I am not good at drawing but practice makes perfect and not everyone
can be capable of doing skills and techniques like that, not everybody
design is perfect. I am not perfect at doing drawing and other skills and some
graphic designs may not be able to do them skills as well. Tips for those
thinking of applying for graphic design is to come look at your modules that
you can be doing and time management skills always keep time to yourself as
well as and have time on what times you want to do your and module and when you
want to start, do not delay it ever, because it is big projects that you have
to do and it does count towards the end of your year grade. So always stay focused.
Always ask for help because your lectures will always help you no matter
what. Like I always always do because you
always, I always think oh why if it's wrong or what if it's not so you'd
rather be reassured and know that you are doing right stay calm, be focused
and be driven, if you really love the course
keep doing it, don't give up, like never give up, because every course will be
hard. No matter what you do. My future plans and goals is that I want to be a
professional graphic designer as well as work in a company but I'm not sure which
one I want to do first but I do want to be a professional graphic designer at
the end of my degree. Now I I would definitely recommend the University of
Sunderland to study at because it's such a diverse University, it's so cultural and
they celebrate every celebration they are so comfortable to go to it's really
safe and everyone is there to help you no matter what, everyone is friendly and
they are really good University. They've got amazing facilities and they are always
there to help you no matter what. They will always support you. I hope this
video helps any of you that are thinking about graphic design or if you've
had any misconceptions about graphic design. Thank you