iMade at Barton Pevrill last night

The National Diploma students (plus the AS Film and Media students) organised their own summer show at Barton Pevrill College last night. The School sponsored the show and I went along to represent the inhuman face of the department. I left with the distinct impression that the National Diploma students are going to arrive at university with very good production skills and may well get frustrated in their first year. Some were producing their own digital animation to quite a high standard. And yet, the AS film and media students were inevitably far behind in terms of camera craft, editing, sound, etc. Of course, many of the later will be looking for theory rather than production based programmes but I reckon it is going to be quite a challenge to meet the needs of pretty sophisticated OCR ND students on the one hand and students with less well developed production skills on the other.