Formative Statement

“Where have you come from?” is a question I rarely get asked. To start at the beginning would be long and laborious so the best place to start is when I left school.Like most students when leaving school and venturing into big wide world I had no clue what that one, enjoyable, mind stimulating thing that I would like to do for the rest of my life. I had lots of ideas mainly involving music, but nothing concrete.

I started in the photography trade by accident as a last minute mix up as to where I was being sent on work experience, I enjoyed it immensely and when the owners offered me a training scheme for two years, I jumped at the chance. This was THE trade to be part of, as everyone would always need photographs. That was until the digital age reared its head, everyone panicked (including myself) and thought the time for cameras, film & processing was at an end. The correct decision was made where I worked at the time that this was the way forward and after travelling to London to see Photoshop in action I was astounded by this ‘modern magic’ that was digital imaging.
Finally I had found the fundamental thing I wanted to do. A medium so versatile that it can take the shape and form of anything that can be created by a person’s imagination and most of it without getting up from the comfort of your seat. Over the years I have explored many programmes, mostly in design, others in music and video but there are so many that it was difficult to keep track of them all as each one was forever changing and improving with each new version.

At the moment I have arrived at a stage in my life where I need to concentrate on the one thing that I enjoy and at the same time keep me in employment until I reach retirement age. The way forward is design, to be more precise, web design. I feel now is the time to change my standing as a ‘Jack of all trades’ and become a master of one. With help and focus from an accredited course such as the HNC interactive media course, I can achieve this in my life’s final trimester. Again, this was something that was happened upon by accident, however, I am a big believer in fate and so far it has worked to my advantage throughout the years.

In two years time I hope to be proficient in web design and all the elements that help bring a website together. I then hope to gain employment from this experience or alternatively, work for myself.At this stage in my life, it is too late for me to take the learning further after the initial two years, so I am confident that in the timescale, I can make the most of the input that I am given and use it more wisely than if I was twenty years younger.I am looking forward to creating and designing products that I am proud of and at the same time, a product that the clients will be pleased with. I hope to gradually gain more experience as time progresses and achieve the potential to complete the course. I think everybody has a talent, if they recognise that talent, and it is nurtured well, then anything can be achieved.
Dean Hubert