Malvika’s Ramblings

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NIFT, NID exam preparation
I am in FC and the fee for my course is Rs 25000 per semester and there are 8 semesters over 4 years in a UG course.

NIFT has Undergraduate and Postgraduate courses. UG NIFT courses are for people fresh out of school. At least thats the minimum requirement. We do have students who finished grad but decided to give in to the artsy/design bug in them and joined a UG NIFT course.

You could enter the technology stream or the design stream

For NIFT exam design stream there is a written test + situation test.

The written test is different for students who opt for the fashion technology stream an dthose who opt for fashion design stream. I gave the exam for fashion design.

The written test has maths (10th level, basics), aptitude, logical ability, GK, design very simple stuff u dont need to prepare for.

It has 3 designing Qs, if I remember correctly. Each Q has choices.More…
In one you have to make a black n white sketch.
One of the two choices in this Q was a flyover when I sat for the exam.
I think it was testing your sense of PERSPECTIVE

The other one was to design a photo frame or a party invitation.
I think they just wanted to see AESTHETICS in this.

The last was to design a product.
One of the choices was a book rack.
I attempted this one and put silly lights all over the rack.
in this they wish to see your PRACTICAL sense, APPLICATION of design, INNOVATIVE ideas, USEFULNESS of ideas.

You sIt for the situation test if u get through the written exam.

This is held at NIFT centres.

You are given a set of things like fevicol, needle, thread, plastic sheets, straws, paper, ice cream sticks, aluminium foil.

Out of this stuff you have to make something.
We had to design a mall.

In the situation test they judge ur sense of 3 D, exploitation of the property of materials provided, INTEGRITY of your design.
They see how well it holds together, if you have considered various aspects such as storeys, fire exits, sections, facade of the mall. The whole thing should not look like its about to collapse.

for NID exam

You should know a bit of plans and elevations…

We had to make a plug from 3 different angles. So you should be able to visualize small objects to the tiniest detail. PERSPECTIVE is mega important. Rendering techniques such as shading the screw to make it look metallic is an added advantage.

Another object that could be asked is a stapler.

In case ur sense of perspecive is shaky, practice of isometry would help. Just take an object and draw it keeping all the vertical lines at 90 degrees to the horizontal, while making all the other lines at 30 degrees, or 45 degrees or 60 degrees. It is a set square and ruler pencil thing. practice would help.

You should know about colour - primary, secondary
This is not colour mixing as n light but as in pigments - paints
So you should know mixing what gives what

We were also asked to write a passage on an image which I later discovered was Van Gogh’s starry night. So you should be able to explain imagery in terms of emotions, feeling conveyed.

In the nid exam timing is critical.

if you get thru u go for the interview

official site of NIFT is www.niftindia.com

official site of NID is www.nid.edu

I have many photos from college. Each showing an unruly group of friends pell-mell, over each other and pushing their fingers forward in victory signs.

Or for FC, its a studio shot with the model trying to feel and look gypsy-like or fragile or a wildchild or naughty schoolgirl in diffused yellow spotlight. She is set at all kinds of angles, legs upwards or legs apart, lips pouting as she rests her hand on a jutting pelvis (n (pl pelves) (anat) bony frame with the hipbones and the lower part of the backbone, holding the kidneys, rectum, bladder etc. pelvic/ adj of the ~)

Do you remember those class photos in which no one would flinch?

Solemn occasions when the badge on everyone’s blazer was at the same angle.

The day when all teachers wore sarees.

The only day everybody wore snow white knee length socks. We patted down our hair and folded our hands in front of us, stood upright and awaited the cue.

“Front row, cross your feet right over left”. The photographer would give the class teacher a compliment to catch a genuine smile and blush, and a ‘cheeeese’ later the camera captured 40 moviestar smiles.

And it was only one shot, the copies of which were made available to all the students of class 10 B. Too bad if a certain person had decided to tilt her head and break the military correctness of the snap. So many personalities, identities ironed out. Unless you were an insider, you never knew the class truant from the class monitor. This girl never shared her tiffin and that one regaled the class with her imitations of the teachers. This one was the compulsive liar and that one was straight As. The one in the second row would look back at this picture and wonder how she could have been such a frump and this one would look for the best friends she ever had in that picture. And to a stranger they all look as indistinguishable from each other as ever.

Next year, another class, another day, another haircut, the same shot would make a day THE day.

My family did a bumpy-jollity drive a few years bak.. went to khajuraho which is a town of the erotic and the defensivethe history is the erotic

i hate fruit chaats
i hate cleaning up my room
i hate brrrummmings (brain whirrings)
i hate always being short of time
i hate not getting to finish my book
i hate keeping track of things ppl have borrowed and not returned
i hate executing ideas in styling that dont excite me
i hate being low on cash and paying for rent, bijli, mobile
i hate GD classes
i hate keeping track of cds
i hate the cheapness that goes behind not giving prizes when u come first
i hate asking for my prize
i hate giving up and not asking for the prize and letting the system continue
i hate turning into a cynic
i hate being a whiner
i hate the rate of output i generate
baaki sab i love

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