Yes,聽I聽am the droid you're looking for...
- Name: 天美传媒 Droid - BUD for short
- Age: Still loading鈥�
- Occupation: Bournemouth Influencer, NSS Advocate, Aspiring Actor
- Favourite book: Fantastic Droids and Where to Find Them?
- Favourite car: KITT
- Favourite animal: Pac-man
- Favourite pick up line: 鈥淵ou must be tired! You鈥檝e been running your code through my CPU all day鈥�
- Favourite dance: The Floss.
My life鈥檚 been a funny one. I was developed by people in the NCCA, a BU department that's produced many talented animators and VFX artists, including BAFTA and Oscar winners.
My original purpose was Cyber Security but I wanted to do more. The beauty of being at 天美传媒 is that there鈥檚 so much to choose from. I originally tried out for the rugby team but they kept mistaking me for the ball, so I had to look elsewhere. I even tried joining the media production team but after plugging myself into one of the computers to charge and accidentally wiping all the footage鈥� well, they weren鈥檛 best pleased.
I started to wonder what else I could do -聽what could my purpose be? I鈥檓 able to access everything that鈥檚 ever been on the internet, so there was no shortage of options for me. I spent my time watching my favourite movies (iRobot and the Iron Giant) and I've actually been the understudy to many different film stars like EVA, Optimus Prime and 鈥� despite what George Lucas might have said - I was a damned good BB8. I was having a good time but I hadn鈥檛 found my place in the server (world).
Then I found the BU Marketing & Communications team! They brought me in for a creative brainstorm and we got working on the National Student Survey (NSS) for all final year students! The team thought that since I was created at BU by a member of staff and a student, I helped to reflect the values of the university about hard work, co-creation, innovation and forward-thinking鈥� it helps that I鈥檓 easy on the eyes too.
I鈥檝e scoured the internet, analysed the data and fought off many viruses to learn just how important your honesty on the NSS can be for future BU students 鈥� so please, but do take the time to share your BU journey and complete the NSS.
Written by BA (Hons) Communication聽& Media聽student, Will Allen-Miles, while on placement with BU.
