Today I attended the 222.370 paper of Video 1.
It is a great and interesting course, but I felt immensely disappointed to discover that the course contents contained the exact same principles on which I graduated about 4 years ago.
The majority of the course involved outside filming. This means that it's a great course if you want to become a professional filmmaker!
But one should not forget that the main point of an exchange is to learn new skills and theory that apply to one's current education. Mine is game design. I use the film industries' theory and practice of storyboards, scening and scriptwriting for this quite freely because there are points where it is useful. Yet the only camera I've used since graduating has been the filming option on my digital photo-camera. The chance that I will use let alone come across a three star camera after my studies is nihil. Chances are bigger that when there's a need of such equipment, there's also need of someone who made filming their vocation.
We should expect to spend about 12 hours of extra study for each paper. If you go out filming, you're dealing with a course depending on a lot of factors such as weather, actors and locations.
For the reasons of already possessing the theory and being unwilling to endanger the focus on my other studies that contribute more to the study back home, I've withdrawn from this paper after discussing the situation with the teacher.
At this point in the semester, there are no consequences to such a thing.
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