My course isn't very intensive and I have a lot of free time...

cymro1170

Poppy9 wrote:

ps we all hate working for a living - but it's a necessary evil!!

speak for yourself.....

Poppy9

cymro1170 wrote:

speak for yourself.....

I suppose if I lived in North Wales I would be glad to go to work :D:D:D

Down South it's much better!!!!!!

Matt-0

The first year you only need 40% to pass and it doesn't count towards your final grade. If you don't have a business idea, then just go get a little job.

A better idea might be looking what you have to do later on in the course, and learn that, will make it much easier when the time comes. I can imagine with a film course you will need to get quickly eqainted(sp) with different equpiment, editoring suite's and possibly write scrips. A freind of mine graduated last year as one of the top film students of that year, he spent his time filming anything and everything, always taking a camera with him and practicing the editting of it when he was home so he knew exactly how everything worked.

richardsimkiss

as somebody mentioned before, be careful regarding your tenancy agreement, most do clearly state that you must not operate a business from the premises...

really the best two options are to get a part time job related to your course, or do background studying so you can ace your course. failing that just a part time job will at least bring some money in.

Well done for not heading straight for the SU bar though!!

BWZN93

tiger wrote:

Are You Sure You Are Not Just Advertising "ats"

Thats exactly what I was thinking to be honest...

Jo xx

BWZN93

shoeless_ross wrote:

Hi,

I started my course Film and Video, Theory and Practice at University of East London last week, and was shocked at how little work I am expected to do, at least for this semester. So anyways rather than wasting all of my time at the union bar, I thought it would be wise to get a job, but then I remebered how much I hate jobs, so my dad suggested I run a business from my flat. This sounds like a better idea to me, and I was wondering if anybody had any suggestions for a business type thing that I could run from a very small flat in the Docklands? Someone suggested dropshipping to me, citing this website: http://www.atsdistribution.co.uk/
Now it seems like a very good idea to me, as it requires no storing of goods etc... but it also sounds quite risky, like the initial sign up of £30, which I can't really afford, unless I'm gonna see it again.... soon.

Any help or ideas or pointing in the right direction would be very greatly appreciated!

Thanks in advance
Ross

All University courses seem like that in the first year, are you sure you dont have work you should be doing and there is lots of 'free' time in the schedule for it? My uni course was 4 hours a week, plus 6hrs of lectures a week. I still had to do 50 hours though! Look through for the rest of the term and start working on each part, you may find you need more time than you thought. My boyf was doing Music Production at uni as one of his modules in commercial music, and was timetabled 1 hour a week in class. He still spent pretty much most of his time in the studio's either recording, producing and editing, simply because its the quality of the work that counts and not whether something has been learned. Unless you are already extremely good, id recommend spending time practicing.

Jo xx

freebie_junkie

why not find a job which complemets your course?
that'll look great on your CV

i.e. when i was doing drama at mmu, i did a part time job teaching drama to school kids, i also worked at the SU which really impresses employers!

harrisl_2

The film industry is a very hard industry to get into. You need lots of experience to get a good job. Unlike something like IT or business which looks more at the academic side of things. I would suggest even doing some work experience (which might include some unpaid work experience. will give you a headstart at least). And then when you're in your last year at uni you will already have the work experience under your belt so you dont have to worry as much when finding a full time job.

Try https://www.mandy.com
They have loads of work experience placements for film production.

Hope this helps.