Preparing for the final year

Lets take you back to how it all began. During my placement year in Oxford i started thinking about what my final year projects would be and having kept in good contact with James and Huw we were regularing keeping each other informed of what we were up to, and decided that we all wanted to achieve simlar goals for the final year and decided that it would be a good idea to work together for the client project to set up our own media production company. Lots of chats, debates and a few arguments took place and we finally came up with the company name 'Compound'. Huw found it and thought it would be perfect as the definition is something like 3 particals coming together to form a solid bond - well, it worked for me!

So we had our name, and our idea, that was one project sorted, but what about the other. Well the Personal research Project, aka PRP was alot more individual then the client, infact, it is totally independant. After having many discussions with Danny Kaye, my company and my friends i decided that no matter what i did i had to enjoy it, and i mean with a passion. this research project was going to be huge and knowing what im like if i wasnt interested in the subject the project was not going to be a sucess.

Much brainstorming happened over the next fews weeks and i decided to revisit a suject area that i had first studyed during my A-Levels - the music video. i love music, and escecially enjoy music video and have always been intriuged on how they are made and what draws people into them. I remember one area that i was particulary interested in was the use of Voyerism - or so i thought it was at the time, i have now realised that it was probably just sex apeal, but there is a fine line, which i know all too well about now!

So it was decided, i was going to research into the styles of music videos for my PRP and set up a media company for my client, easy............... oh no its not!