Simulated Client Project / Quit my Job

My simulated client project, handed in three days ago, was a mixture of success and failure.

My interviews all went very well, and I was pleased with both the responses and my own interview technique. I covered so much interesting ground with my two main interviewees that I only wish the project could have been longer!

It wasn't all success though. A combination of excessive shifts at work and domestic situations pushed me back on schedule, leading to a less than polished final product.
Whilst I was very pleased with the structure and most of the content, visually, it could have used more work, and the mini-DV cams I used to film the 'at risk' (i.e. on the streets) interviews did not perform to the standard I was promised, to the extent that I deliberately crippled the resolution to disguise the low picture quality. A poor decision, in hindsight, and were the project of greater import (and more time available) the only viable solution would have been to re-shoot.

This was a valuable lesson and one I will bear in mind in future.

As to the home situation, I have received my loan after much waiting and finished working the excessive number of shifts I had to sign up to as a stop gap. Furthermore, I have now quit my main job, freeing me as much time as I can afford to to focus on this final and most important year of my degree.