Monday 23 February 2009

Thursday 12 February 2009

Evaluation

BA (Hons.) GRAPHIC DESIGN – END OF MODULE SELF-EVALUATION

Digital Module

1. What skills have you developed through this module and how effectively do you think you have applied them?

Skills- Create a body of research that consisted of using after effects,been able to know the Basic like the silent movie moving shapes and a few effects but able to build at a higher quality near the end of the module for the e4 brief and able to find short cuts or other fast resolutions to the storyboard and test pieces.

2. What approaches to generating work and solutions to problems have you developed and how have they helped?

Never really done any storyboarding just like after effects but i did find it enjoyable and helpful planning and playing around my ideas on the storyboard.I found good steps of improving my storyboard to have a good simple high quality storyboard but not to detailed.For example draw sketches on yellow post it notes so you can move them around and change them then another detailed sketch of the resolution and then a neat version to sum up which I created it on photoshop from scanning image and pasting them.


3. What strengths can you identify in your work and how have/will you capitalize on these?

strengths are storyboards and illustrations and I'm sure my Patience on the after effects help to create my drawn image on the video.Making fast decisions and plying around on after effects to see if my idea works but not wasting long hours creating it.(head and hands)My i am please what i created on my first try on after effects there is still a lot to learn.Iweb was difficult to produce as it was sometime unpredictable at times.But I have defiantly learnt to be careful on computers to back up every thing,I think I was lucky I didn't loose anything because constantly backup work on disc and my personal hard drive.But there where moments i did loose things (like a drink leaking in my bag and destroyed my usb stick)but even I already back my work up there is this constant fear of loosing work after and during this brief.

4. What weaknesses can you identify in your work and how could you exploit these more fully?

weaknesses- I don't think I'm a natural at after effects but I know I put 100% into it.I web didn't sometimes agree with me and found it difficult to keep the memory low.But kept it consistant.

5. Identify five things that you will do different next time and what do you expect to gain from doing these?

1. Make my after effects easier (using simple shapes not illustrative images)
2. Practise I web small part rather than doing it all and find out some images don't turn up on publish
3. Took more breaks away from the computer (felt a bit ill staring at the computer all day)
4. Have examples on silent movie
5. Knew what to put on the I web(Not to sure what was important to put in I web and what wasn't important)

6. How would you grade yourself on the following areas:
(please indicate using an ‘x’)
5= excellent, 4 = very good, 3 = good, 2 = average, 1 = poor

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AttendanceX= 5
PunctualityX= 5
MotivationX=5
CommitmentX=5
Quantity of work producedX=3
Quality of work producedX=3
Contribution to the groupX=3
The evaluation of your work is an important part of the assessment criteria and represents a percentage of the overall grade. It is essential that you give yourself enough time to complete your written evaluation fully and with appropriate depth and level of self-reflection. If you have any questions relating to the self evaluation process speak to a member of staff as soon as possible.