Sunday, 31 May 2009
Evaluation
I've been working for what feels like a solid month, and i still didn't get everything i wanted to do done, I am now extremely concerned that i am going to fail this year and i am not sure why it all went wrong and been having sleepless nights about it.
I was peeved about the booking system for the digital print resource i don't feel its fair that a course or a year can blanket book up an entire week at anytime in the course but especially at the end of the year. I am sure some of the third years on a multitude of courses are fuming about this.
Back to my work, I'll be honest i hated handing in these projects. the time i put aside to arrange and organize was eaten up by printing debacle. this is no excuse of course i should have planned for that to happen or at least something like it. I know its not right and its not what i should be doing. this year has confused me no end. Its like the second album a band might come out and have some success with their first album, but then bring out a really poor second album, thats how i feel about this year. its my dodgy second album. I've got a load of thinking to do over the summer. Because i love this course and i really want to get the most out of it, I need to get the most out of it. The three projects (criterion, X-ray, and Best Poke Tee's) were all briefs i gave myself and i think that was the fundamental flaw in the whole thing i never sat down and gave myself the structure i needed to get this done at the level i am capable of that goes for this whole year. in the first year there was a structure given to us in the second there was not and in the third i know there will be less so i know what i need to do now over the summer i need to define me working practice. my own rules of how to complete a project, a graphic design ten commandments if you will.
As for the good things about the last module, i really liked the X-ray Brief and its a full live brief and the client loves it. He saw it today and was really excited, which made me feel loads better. Their are some changes to be made but they are small and not to much trouble, the project its self was meant to be only a week long but i dragged it out to nearly three always doing a bit here and a bit there but never really sitting down and breaking it. A mistake that will no doubt cost me. The criterion dvd brief was great i love film which made the brief great to research, it started out life as a Godzilla box set but then i realized that criterion would never make it but they have produced i vast number of samurai films so Lone wolf and cub got the criterion makeover. As for the Best Poke Tees the main problem was with my screen printing skills, or total lack of them, but i did feel better working with type. which is good because i've realized that don't want to run away from type and layout i want to crack it, i know ill never be the best at it but i need to be able to use them confidently.
well thats my rant over i hope you didn't think it to self-deprecating.
i would also like to take the opportunity to say thank you i've learnt a load this year, even though i've still got a long way to go.
I've been working for what feels like a solid month, and i still didn't get everything i wanted to do done, I am now extremely concerned that i am going to fail this year and i am not sure why it all went wrong and been having sleepless nights about it.
I was peeved about the booking system for the digital print resource i don't feel its fair that a course or a year can blanket book up an entire week at anytime in the course but especially at the end of the year. I am sure some of the third years on a multitude of courses are fuming about this.
Back to my work, I'll be honest i hated handing in these projects. the time i put aside to arrange and organize was eaten up by printing debacle. this is no excuse of course i should have planned for that to happen or at least something like it. I know its not right and its not what i should be doing. this year has confused me no end. Its like the second album a band might come out and have some success with their first album, but then bring out a really poor second album, thats how i feel about this year. its my dodgy second album. I've got a load of thinking to do over the summer. Because i love this course and i really want to get the most out of it, I need to get the most out of it. The three projects (criterion, X-ray, and Best Poke Tee's) were all briefs i gave myself and i think that was the fundamental flaw in the whole thing i never sat down and gave myself the structure i needed to get this done at the level i am capable of that goes for this whole year. in the first year there was a structure given to us in the second there was not and in the third i know there will be less so i know what i need to do now over the summer i need to define me working practice. my own rules of how to complete a project, a graphic design ten commandments if you will.
As for the good things about the last module, i really liked the X-ray Brief and its a full live brief and the client loves it. He saw it today and was really excited, which made me feel loads better. Their are some changes to be made but they are small and not to much trouble, the project its self was meant to be only a week long but i dragged it out to nearly three always doing a bit here and a bit there but never really sitting down and breaking it. A mistake that will no doubt cost me. The criterion dvd brief was great i love film which made the brief great to research, it started out life as a Godzilla box set but then i realized that criterion would never make it but they have produced i vast number of samurai films so Lone wolf and cub got the criterion makeover. As for the Best Poke Tees the main problem was with my screen printing skills, or total lack of them, but i did feel better working with type. which is good because i've realized that don't want to run away from type and layout i want to crack it, i know ill never be the best at it but i need to be able to use them confidently.
well thats my rant over i hope you didn't think it to self-deprecating.
i would also like to take the opportunity to say thank you i've learnt a load this year, even though i've still got a long way to go.
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