Unleashed

February 2, 2008 in Daily Shoutout

I just got home from Suntec after attending the NTU Admissions Talk. I went there to seek more information on the course that I wanted to enroll in and was quite satisfied with what I had found out.

I registered for their talk from the School of Art, Design & Media (ADM) and knowing that most institutions will give freshmen a run of foundation studies plus some really not related modules to study, I really expect NTU to be the same but I was wrong. NTU’s ADM uses the professional studio-based training methodology that most art institutions around the world is using. They focused on your work rather than the theories. And in actual fact, the real world sees your showreel and not how many Distinctions, ADs or As you can score.

More importantly, the portfolio that is mandatory, they are looking for artistic style and not ultra polished works. It gives everyone a fair chance and shot to prove their worth. After this talk, it gives me a momentum push to go and put my best effort to put forward my best portfolio to NTU. And for further encouragement, I approached an ADM student which is also not an art student but a science student before she was enrolled into ADM. She told me that submit what you did and you are proud of and you think its your best work yet. She took only a few photograph shots and submitted and she got her place.