'Meeting with Lynn- Academic Supervisor'

As it was my first meeting with Lynn we started with me trying to explain what my project was. I showed her my aim and objectives and it seemed that Lynn was very much on the side of John. I think her first question was 'is this what you want to do'  to which my reply was something along the lines of 'I have no idea anymore.' We discussed my proposal in great depth, Lynn was great, trying to help me identify what I would like to achieve through my project. 

After a whole semester full of confusion it was a good feeling to finally be discussing and understanding what it is i wanted to do, with someone who understood what I was getting at in the first place. It was just 3 months too late!

I realised that before Lynn I was only really speaking to scientists for advice...I'd ended up with a science project. I think this is why I've been having so much trouble focusing and figuring out what work to do...I didn't understand what I was setting out to accomplish. I was too busy trying to keep everyone else happy, I didn't consider myself. My project was laid out all wrong for what I actually wanted to study, I didn't want to spend half the semester reading about science and paleontology, its a section but it shouldn't be the main focus.

With some great advice from Lynn I managed to get my aim and objectives restructured to allow me to be much more creative with my research and development giving much more support to my practical work. 

Afterwards Lynn said 'The project is very interesting and has potential to build your technical understanding to help you create a broad portfolio of work for your show reel along with an interesting dissertation.' I definitely feel so much better about my project, only problem is that the semester is now over and I don't have all that much time left until Jan hand ins...

Also I didn't manage to get a draft proposal into Colin in time as my project was restructured the day before the hand in...however it's much better that I understand what I'm doing now and have a relevant project.

Because of the worries with my project and difficulties getting my project idea pinned down, I have been spending all my time writing aim and objectives and trying to find relevant scientific literature, and figure out what I was doing...I haven't had any time to work on concept development or pre-production. However I haven't been wasting my time, I have been working A LOT on my Inspiration Sketchbook and Blog to help me figure out what I like and what I want to study this year, which I think has been a great help.

I have been reading but I never felt like it was relevant as it wasn't about paleontology and evolution and all scientific and every time i did a search for literature I couldn't get my head around it. Now I feel I can read about how Pixar works and how people rig their characters and it IS relevant to my project.

Now to crack on...