Can art study abroad be settled in three months? Now is the time for Yu Bochen's column brought by natural light for all students. Is it difficult to finish art study in three months? First, give the answer to this question: difficult! But it is not impossible. However, it is not recommended that you try it easily. It is possible to complete the collection of works for studying abroad in three months, and even the whole process of applying for studying abroad in art. However, we all know that it is too difficult to win the art study collection and art study application in three months.
Can art study abroad be settled in three months
Taking the students who applied for admission in Natural Light in 2019 as an example, out of more than 300 and nearly 400 students, only 12 students completed their works in three months, of which the fastest progress was only one month. That is to say, only 3% of the students who applied in 2019 are near the limit. Now, let's take the students of the 2019 application season of Natural Light as an example, and take "six months/half a year" as a time node to look at your collection preparation cycle, where:
13.7% within 6 months/half a year (including 6 months);
38.7% within 6-12 months/year (including 12 months);
28.4% within 12-18 months/one and a half years (including 18 months);
More than 18 months, 19.2%.
We can see that, in fact Most of the students are mainly concentrated in 6-12 months and 12-18 months The trainees who have spent more than 18 months are almost doing long-term planning. In this group of data, the longest course period of students applying in 2019 is 29 months, that is, two years and five months, and the students' background is zero foundation graduate students applying for animation; The student with the shortest period of one month is a domestic comprehensive university undergraduate majoring in art design, and the graduate student changed his major to apply for illustration.
In three months, even for students studying abroad in large categories, it is actually a limit value for application, and it is almost impossible for art students studying abroad. The collection of works should be completed within three months. Taking four works as the average, that is to say, each work only takes about 20 days. This is a huge challenge for both students and art instructors. Not to mention that some students have to submit additional mini portfolio, sketchbook, observation drawing, assignment and other works. Some students also included application documents, background optimization and other parts in the three months.
"How long is the general collection completion cycle?"
This is the first question that many students throw out when consulting. When we don't talk about majors, students' application background, application intention and teaching form, the more fully prepared the application is, the better. For most students, the most ideal production cycle of the portfolio is basically between 8-15 months.
Generally speaking, students' first collection of works often takes a little longer. On average, the progress of students' collection of works applied for in 2019 will take 1.5-2.5 months, that is, 40-80 days.
On the one hand, for students who are accustomed to the domestic teaching mode, it is difficult to adapt to the overseas art education mode and the creation and thinking mode in the early stage. If you want to start the creation of works that meet the overseas application smoothly, you need some time to adapt. On the other hand, students who have studied art and design in China may have deep feelings, that is, there is a certain difference between the domestic art teaching mode and overseas art teaching mode. As far as the understanding of works collection is concerned, under the domestic art teaching mode, the result oriented integration of works collection is more advocated, while under the overseas art teaching mode, colleges and universities tend to emphasize the development process of students' thinking awareness and creative ideas, especially at the undergraduate stage, the cultivation of students' thinking awareness is particularly important. On the other hand, the development of the first work is often accompanied by the process of mutual familiarity between students and teachers. It takes a process from never understanding each other, to communicating with each other, to building a relationship of mutual trust. During this period, students should adapt to the teacher's teaching methods. Teachers should try their best to understand students, find out the advantages and disadvantages of students' application, and give the most targeted course content that can best meet students' needs.
With the completion of the first work, students gradually enter the state, begin to adapt to the thinking mode of overseas art teaching, and understand the creation process of the collection of works; Get to know yourself and your major step by step, build up your own understanding of the major, and have a certain creative thinking mode; At the same time, the communication with teachers also began to flow smoothly, and gradually established a cooperative relationship and mutual trust, which also made the course better. Only after that can the collection of works be created more easily.
For normal Application planning for art study abroad Of the students, the first work in the collection actually took half or more of the time of "three months". It can be seen that it is difficult to finish the collection of works within three months. However, if we want to talk about the feasibility of "winning the collection of works in three months", we can first take a look at the 12 students I mentioned earlier, see their early application situation, and their application results, which may give you some inspiration and referential significance:
Student A: Undergraduate majoring in visual communication, master applied for the British visual communication direction, completed the collection of works in two months, and won a total of five offers including LCC, UCA, Loughborough and other institutions, among which Loughborough won a prize;
Student B: A-Level, a foreign high school, applies for the British pure art direction with zero foundation. The preparation period for the collection of works is two months, and five offers including Kingston, Goldsmith, UCA and Camberwell were won;
Student C: With an American college background, apply for a bachelor's degree in American fashion design with zero foundation, and win Southampton and AAU offers in 2.5 months, of which Southampton brings a scholarship of $40000;
Student D: Canadian high school, elementary art foundation, applied for undergraduate majoring in fashion design, and got SCAD offer in three months;
Student E: Undergraduate graphic design major, graduate student applied for graphic design, and received 4 offers including RCA, LCC and Kingston within 3 months;
Student F: British International High School, applying for fashion management with zero foundation, and getting offers from two colleges within three months;
Trainee G: With a background of Meigao, economics has changed from zero foundation to major, and applied for jewelry design major, and received SHU, LMU and UCA offers within three months;
Student H: High school international school, applying for undergraduate preparatory courses with zero foundation, and getting the offers from Manchester University, BCU and Leeds within three months;
Student I: UCA applied for professional transfer, and won the LCF fashion design offer with zero foundation in two months;
Student J: Undergraduate students majoring in art design from domestic comprehensive universities. Postgraduates apply for illustration after changing their majors, and won RCA, Camberwell and Edinburgh in one month;
Student K: Undergraduate majoring in jewelry design in domestic art academies, graduate students apply for jewelry design, and get SHU and BCU offers within 3.5 months;
Student L: International high school background, elementary art foundation, bachelor's degree and application for British and American jewelry design and illustration major, 2.5 months CCA California Academy of Arts $60000 scholarship, SAIC, Pratt, SVA, CSM, Edinburgh offer
Having seen the application background and application situation of these students, have you found that they actually have "their own advantages"? Now I will share with you the personal case of student B.
Good application foundation
First of all, let's summarize the "application basis" of these 12 students, that is, their application background. Almost all of them have their own buff. International high schools, overseas high schools, or undergraduate courses are the same major, and they have a certain art/professional foundation. The application background of almost every student has brought them certain application advantages. Or language, or thinking awareness, or professional foundation, which enable them to have certain qualifications, to complete the collection of works within three months.
For student B Dylan, the student started his portfolio course in natural light at the end of November. By the application deadline in late January, he had only two months to prepare. The student studied in New Zealand in high school and has a high A-Level score, so she has almost no problems with her own language, which actually saves a lot of time for her later application documents; At the same time, because she was studying abroad in high school, her thinking consciousness has been relatively overseas in the process of thinking about problems and plans.
Dylan applied for a pure art major. Although she had zero foundation before, our teacher found that she had a relatively independent and unique understanding of art in the process of communicating with her. For example, in her opinion: "Art and design are very different fields, even though they are often linked together. But compared with design, art is more subjective, and the content is determined by the author's subjective consciousness at that time, while design is generated by adapting to the objective, and it needs to meet the requirements of the market for it. Art is a very subjective discipline, especially pure art. It needs to have a deep understanding of social problems, human relations, modern society and art history, and constantly question and innovate existing art concepts. As long as there is still one human being on the earth, art will be the truth we will always pursue and explore. "
High acceptance of thinking awareness
In the daily communication with the art department instructors, we found that most of the students who can build a collection of works in a short time tend to have a high sense of acceptance. They are always open and willing to accept new concepts and ideas. Not only new knowledge and concepts, but also attitudes towards teachers and understanding of teaching.
Dylan is still in New Zealand Collection Training Organization She learned many basic painting trainings through video websites and online step-by-step tutorials. Secondly, as his own preparation period is very short, Dylan actively communicated with the teacher many times at the beginning of the portfolio course, and exchanged his profession and his own ideas with the teacher as much as possible, hoping to make the teacher understand his current professional situation most clearly and discuss the follow-up courses.
During the preliminary evaluation of her works, Dylan also showed her many personal works to the teacher, so that the teacher could see her creative ability and expression awareness in photography and other media, but also let the teacher clearly understand that her understanding of other creative media is still lacking and weak.
Therefore, the teacher also quickly helped her reorganize some of her existing works according to her status, and told her the current problems through these works, as well as how to improve and supplement different weak links.
Self realization ability is guaranteed
When it comes to self realization ability, we all know that one of the biggest characteristics of overseas art teaching is "to the point". In the teacher's opinion, each student has his own unique thinking system and conceptual cognitive model. Just like for Dylan, she has her own unique understanding and ideas on pure art.
Therefore, in teaching, teachers of natural light will also give every student the maximum "free space". Let students complete their own ideas in their own way, and create repeatedly through different "experiments", so as to find the most suitable form of expression for their own ideas and consciousness.
With the conscious guidance of the teacher and the maximum "free play", Dylan's perception of pure art is also changing in a short time. From the previous almost theoretical imagination to the later real attempt to put "theory" and ideas into practice and creation, so that ideas can be more logical and multi-level in depth.
Dylan himself has always maintained a high degree of enthusiasm and sense of responsibility in the process of putting his ideas into practice. For example, in the late shooting stage of the work, we bought countless materials of photo paper in a treasure just for the details of "photo paper". One by one, we tested different photo papers to show the finished effect, and looked at the texture of each kind of photo paper. In order to achieve the final effect, we went to the print shop again and again, and finally found the one we most wanted.
The fault tolerance rate is almost zero, with high goal
For those students who are pressed for time and want to complete their works in a short time, "goal" is very important. Because you must understand that if the time limit for preparing your portfolio is half, or even 1/3, or 1/4 of the time limit for other students to prepare, the lower your tolerance rate is compared with other students. It is no exaggeration to say that almost no mistakes are allowed.
Therefore, in order to be prepared and reduce the possibility of errors, we need to avoid detours in the creation process and clarify our own goals for the collection of works. This is a test for students themselves. They should solve their time planning ability and improve their awareness of scheme optimization; Secondly, it is a test for art instructors.
First of all, teachers are required to positively guide and cultivate students' thinking awareness while teaching their majors; Secondly, under the premise of general direction guidance, students can be "awakened" at one time to directly poke the pain points of students' needs; At the same time, the teacher is also required to give students the maximum space to spread in a short period of time, so that students still have the opportunity to complete their own work.
In Dylan's case, after 100% trust with the teacher, Dylan and the teacher mutually determined the "most Dylan" portfolio creation scheme - first finalize the creation theme of each work, and then complete it in turn.
In this process, the years of professional experience and teaching experience of the two tutors play a key role. Teachers with a high sense of goal can help students quickly enter the state, establish their own goal direction, and carry out planned planning and preparation. In Dylan's case, especially when she is lacking in inspiration, the two tutors can quickly help Dylan review his creation and ideas, review his works, and obtain new inspiration in the form of critical or review.
summary
Above, according to Dylan's personal case, I have summarized several experience points with universality. Combined with today's topic, is it difficult to win the collection of works in three months? Of course, it is difficult, but it is not impossible. For example, in today's article, we mentioned 12 students who received offers within three months, and we can also see that their application results are actually very good.
Even so, I don't suggest that you only reserve 3 months for your work collection. You should know that each of the above students has certain application advantages. If we look at the cases of each of them, we will find that they are under great pressure in the portfolio courses. Sometimes even if they are very tired, they can't rest because time is limited. It is also a sign of being responsible for yourself to reserve sufficient preparation time for your application.
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