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22-06-2009 7:41pm#1
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Hey! I do it. I'm going into third year.
What would you like to know?
In my opinion;
- It's a good course for someone with an interest in the whole media area and wants to find out which area they'd like to specialise in / work in
- It gives you good opportunity to develop skills in all the fields of study
- Lectures are very helpful, for the most part.
- Course is a good mix between practical and academic.
Just fire some questions at me and I'll answer them!
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Hi pikachucheeks
Can you tell me what are the career opportunities like from the course?
Are there any mature students doing the course?
Is Tallaght accessible? I'd be coming from City Centre direction.
What kind of practical learning do you do? Like make films etc?
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Hi pikachucheeks
Can you tell me what are the career opportunities like from the course?
Are there any mature students doing the course?
Is Tallaght accessible? I'd be coming from City Centre direction.
What kind of practical learning do you do? Like make films etc?
Thanks for your help
1. Career opportunities
As the course is quite broad, covering a lot of media areas, career opportunities are pretty good and you can go into pretty much any media area! - You'd be qualified to be anything from a radio DJ, photographer to working in marketing or with advertising agencies.
Obviously, the media industry is highly competitive, but I'd say that If you have passion for something and a talent for it, the right job will come your way.
2. Mature students
Anyone and everyone does the course! Every year, the college accepts roughly thirty people to do the course; Class sizes are pretty small, there's a good lecturer-to-student ratio. This means you get questions answered faster, advice quicker and have a more developed relationship with the lecturer than you would if you were in a class of say, double that size.
There's a few mature students in every class - In my class, everyone gets on really well, regardless of age. It ranges from people who worked for a few years then came to college, people who came straight to college from leaving cert, to people who have families and decided to return to education! Everyone doing the course tends to have a common passion and interest for the media, so age isn't an issue at all!
3. Tallaght
Yeah, very accessible! You can get the Luas, red line, which goes from Connolly as far as Tallaght, You can drive along the M50. Or get the bus even - Tallaght is serviced via a many routes ; 49, 65/B, 54A, 77/A ... They'd all leave you right outside, or very near the college and come from the city centre out!
4. Practical learning
Most of the course is practical, as opposed to academic which most media students seem to love!
With TV, we make our own productions which range from short interviews to entertainment shows and off-campus shooting. We also learn how to edit these pieces, add graphics, audio etc.
Photography is based around both film and digital cameras. We are set project briefs and we go out and shoot things, to fill the brief.
Audio is another practical module - we prepare scripts for shows, present our own shows for class time and for the college radio show, with airs for two weeks every year, once each semester, ITTfm.
And there's also Multimedia where we learn to use software such as Photoshop, Illustrator and Flash. We're given tutorials on each of these packages then set briefs and tasks - anything from using certain tools to manipulate an image, creating an interactive website to making a music video for a piece of audio.
Hope that helps!
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Radio week runs twice a year - During Freshers' Week in September, then again for RAG Week in February.
Basically, if you're a student of the course and / or a member of the Radio Society, you're free to do a piece on the radio, or get involved in whatever way you'd like to!
Doesn't matter if you're a first year or fourth year, you're given a chance to do your part.
It broadcasts as far as Dublin airport! So, essentially, most of Dublin can pick it up. It's also streamed online, for those who aren't that lucky!
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pikachucheeks wrote: »But all these AV1s refused to call themselves anything other than CDMs!
I live in hope though!
Not all of us
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rocketballs wrote: »hi i'm starting CDM in sept too, apparently its a great course really looking forward to starting. anyone know the hours at all?
i'm 22, hope all ages got accepted
There's always a variety of people and ages! Some people come straight from Leaving Cert, some people take a year out then come to college, others return to education having worked for a few years. It makes no difference because in college, everyone is accepted! - Especially if you're studying AV [old name for CDM, we refuse to call it CDM] - we all get on like a house on fire!
Hours? Not that intense! Less than twenty hours a week anyway. Easy going and very fun 0 -
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