ACADEMIC SKILLS

 An Understanding Of Media Design Technology And Digital Arts                   

  Media Design Technology and Digital Arts, is a course also known to many people as "Graphic designing". This course entails the merging of visual communication with texts. It is also a platform where students are taught how to employ the use of both design prints and electronic forms to project data. This sort of expertise is usually applied in the field of advertisement, publishing and website designing. A person who studies this course ends up becoming a Graphic designer.

                                                                                                                                                                     
                    There are many, so many reasons why an individual would desire to take up this course. These reasons would surely differ from one person to another since there are different people who surely are from different backgrounds and would have diverse ideologies concerning this course. All the same I also have my reasons for pursuing this course, even to a very great extent.
                    The first reason being, this course is going to help me build on my very basic and ground level skills in arts. I enjoy sketching and taking pictures, as well as editing them. I believe that, though I perceive myself to be good, I can get better at it and grow in this field of expertise to a much more greater extent.
                      The second reason is that as creative as I can be, I know, and have confidence that the pursuing of this course would  help me build upon my creative thinking or level of creativity. I as a designer, have a sole duty to be very creative in my thinking. This is the only way by which I can solve both common and uncommon day to day problems and situations through my works. It will also give me a wide spectrum of ways of presenting my ideas as well as in different forms.

                   Since most of all my work presently is done by the use of mainly phone applications such as pics-art, I know for a sure fact that this course would introduce me to a more advanced software like Photoshop for my field. This course would help me progress on my journey to being a good designer since I am going to be introduced to and become familiar as well as be up to date with modern and professional design software. I am also going to be introduced to new technologies such as more advanced and professional cameras which would go a long way in helping me climb up the ladder of excellence in my chosen field.
                    Also, I believe that this course would introduce me to new skills like animation, which I intend to combine with knowledge in what I know already, so that I will not be compared to an average designer who only designs for fun and is monotonous in his work, but also a more professional designer who does not only design because it brings him fun but instead one who is ready to make what he does a part of him. My people have a saying that "it is only a fool who does not change" and also like we all know, "Change is the only constant thing in life", prior to this, I am ever willing to give out my best to study and find out each and everyday new ways to which I can improve myself in this field. 
                  Putting my reasons aside, this course is also going to bring me a lot of benefits. From my part of the world, my country and society to be precise, anyone who undertakes this course is an underachiever, but on the other hand what they refuse to see is that without designers, there would entirely no need for television which everyone has, since there would be no images to show, there would be no need for companies to desire growth since there would be no means of advertising to the public and even there would be no need for so many other basic needs like clothes and buildings for shelter. To me, this course has equal benefits with the likes of Medicine, Banking and other professions.
                One benefit I enjoy as graphic designer is that i have the luxury to have fun in my profession. Unlike Medicine, Banking and other professions, graphic designing is more free. This gives me the chance to relax whiles doing my work at the same time.
                  This course would also help me improve as an individual to improve on my thinking skills since as a graphic designer I am required to think very critically in order to find new ways off addressing issue.
                  Through methods of research such as ethnography as an individual, I am chanced with the opportunity to know more about various cultures.This would go in a long way to help me know how to address the issues of diverse cultures and represent them in my works. Hence not making me narrow minded in my way of thinking, since I would realize how each culture differs from the other.

                   In a sum total I am taking up this course in order to improve myself to become a better graphic designer and also to use this course to portray to the world how different problems can be solved in different ways. Also I want to show the parts of the world where this course has not been embraced, how important graphic design is in our everyday life and the amazing prospects it possesses.