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Research

What ideas and inspiration did you get from your research?

From my research, I was inspired to colour block the background and combine different graphic styles. I knew that I wanted a basic style for my illustrations since I’m just a beginner. I was also inspired to try shading and highlights because I wanted to develop my drawing skills instead of just drawing lines and colouring them in with one solid colour.

What ideas and inspiration did you get from the world around you?

I was heavily inspired from the environment around me. My pieces are based off litter on the beach and marine waste and how it affects the marine life and even humans.

How did your research influence the development of your project work?

Finding different photographers who include bight colours and colour schemes in their images inspired my own choices. I didn’t have a particular scheme but I wanted to keep to bright colours.

Do you think you researched widely enough or in enough depth?

I always think I could do more research but I tried to go more in depth this time by adding facts about marine waste and looking into articles.

Concept

What is your work about?

My work is about marine waste and how it affects marine life and how it ends up being consumed in small amounts by humans.

How did your ideas develop and change?

I had a very clear vision in my head about what I wanted to do so not much changed apart from changing colours in my illustrations as I went along. Such as adding gradients and altering the background colours.

How well did the work you produced communicate the ideas behind your project?

I think it communicated the ideas behind my project very well. My message is very clear in my illustrations.

Core Skills

What English and Maths skills did you use/improve with your project work or photography skills?

I’ve used English throughout my blog work when doing research and writing captions for my posts. I used maths when I was finding out my carbon footprint and interpreted my dath that was produced.

Technique

What new techniques (eg. Camera work or photoshop) did you learn/experiment with?

My whole project is full of new techniques. A few examples are stop motion, time lapse, editing in premiere, illustration as a whole and HDR photography.

Did you push yourself to try new things?

I did push myself very hard to try new things.

Character Development

Comment on what you learnt about yourself and where you think you have developed/used your abilities in terms of the categories on the character matrix below:

RESPECT Understand respect (Taking care of others 11) Understand professionalism (Taking care of others 11) COMMUNICATION Understand views and how to contribute (Taking care of yourself 9) DRIVE Understand motivation and engagement Understand barriers and how to overcome them (Taking care of yourself 4) RESPONSIBILITY Understand responsibilities as a person and as a student. (Taking care of yourself 9) Understand personal voice and freedom of speech. (Law and State 1) PEOPLE Understand why we work with others to achieve goals (Employability 6) GRIT Understand pressures and expectations of being a student How to meet deadlines, manage time and understand consequences (Taking care of yourself 4)

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How did the assignment help you develop yourself (e.g. Respect, Communication, People)

The assignment helped me develop my respect because now I am more aware of respecting the environment and how everything I do affects the world around me. I developed my communication because when presented with the brief I had to understand what the client wanted and listen to them and their needs. I understand my responsibilities too. Everything I do I am responsible for, such as littering, not turning lights and electrical devices off, taking transport when I could just walk somewhere. I understand why we work with others to achieve goals. I worked with the devon wildlife trust to produce illustrations about the environment and bring awareness to issues around marine littering. I kept myself under pressure to push myself because if I don’t have any pressure I tend not to do my work to the maximum potential and slack off a bit.

How well did you manage your stress levels?

I managed my stress levels well. I tried to stick to my plan so I wouldn’t go off and do something that wasn’t relevant and waste my time.

How well do you think you did in terms of: meeting deadlines, time management, punctuality, attendance?

I kept to my time plan even though I missed a couple of days but even then I tried to do some research. I’ve met all the deadlines and produced my work for when I needed it.

How much effort did you put into your work?

I put a lot of effort into my illustrations but I will admit that I didn’t put as much effort into my blog but that is because I wanted to be proud of my illustrations since I had never done it before and I am used to doing blog work now so it is becoming more natural and I’m improving it and developing it every project.

Did you take care and pride in the presentation of your work?

I did keep pride and care in the presentation of my work. I always try and keep it to the same format to keep it consistent and clear.

What challenges did you face? how did you overcome them? What did you learn from them?

I only really had two challenges. The first being that my first attempt at a panorama didn’t work because I didn’t take enough photos and they didn’t stitch together smoothly so to overcome this I re-shot in a different location and this time it worked and I learned from my mistakes.

The second challenge was actually choosing the right colours for my first illustration. I changed the colour of the ice cream and in turn the tentacles of the octopus got lost since it blended in so I just coloured it in a differently.

Professionalism

Did you learn anything about how to work professionally in the creative industries from this assignment?

I learned how to take information from a client and follow what they wanted. With the Devon wildlife trust we had a very open brief and only needed to produce something about marine life.

Working With The Brief

How does the work you produced meet the client brief? Did you consider their target audience?

I think my work that I’ve produced does meet the client brief since it is about marine life and waste. I tried to make my work for everyone. It is easily understood and I thought the bright colours would attract everyones eyes.

How does your work promote messages around sustainability?

I chose the devon wildlife trust not regen south west so it doesn’t relate to sustainability but it brings up issues about marine waste and how it affects the animals.

How easy did you find the brief? What were the challenges?

I found the brief very easy since it was extremely open and I could do whatever I wanted basically as long as it fitted with marine life and waste and being awareness to the issues.

Enjoyment/engagement

What aspects of the work did you enjoy/not enjoy?

I enjoyed all of the work since all of this project was experimenting with new techniques. I liked all of the work that was produced.

How well did you engage with the project and what helped you to/prevented you from engaging with the project?

I think this project I was the most engaged with since there was a lot to research and learn about. Nothing stopped me from engaging. I found it very interesting and informal.

High Points and Low Points

Overall, what are you most proud of? What are you least proud of?

I’m most proud of my final images since I put a lot of effort into them. I’d say I’m least proud of my HDR photo since it isn’t that contrasted to me but I can always go back and do it again if I wanted to.

What are the key things you want to work more on next term?

I always think that I can improve on my research. In my eyes I can always do more.

What did the audience think? During your group crit sessions, describe the responses to your work. Discuss what feedback you got, and explain why you agree or disagree with the responses.

See peer review feedback post.

Document how you managed your time on this first project. How would you evaluate your productivity? (eg. Did you produce enough work? Could you have worked faster?). To help you do this:   - Firstly calculate the total hours that you personally spent on this project, and clearly show this on your evaluation.  - Calculate the amount of hours spent on thinking of ideas, researching, and discovering.  - Calculate the amount of hours spent planning, organising your production. - Calculate the amount of hours spent practicing and testing skills, equipment, and software.  - Calculate the amount of hours spent taking pictures. - Calculate the amount of hours on the editing your pictures - Calculate the amount of hours you spent uploading posts to your blog or putting your workbook together. - Calculate how much time the team spent working on the assignment altogether.

Take these figures and work out the percentages for each element. Create a pie chart or similar diagram that accurately represents how much time you spent on these different elements.

Percentages listed above.

How I worked the percentages out. I added the total amount of hours up which totalled to 40 then I did 4 divided by 40 then times that by 100 when was 10%

If you were to charge a client, say, £15 per hour for your time spent working on this project, what would you be charging?

£15 x 40 = £600

4D Evaluation Task 4D Problem Solving Task – Evaluation In order to ensure that you are able to pass unit 7, it is essential that you evaluate your 4D work, answering the following questions:

1) How did you create a 4D piece? By using the time lapse setting on the Nikon D 7200 and taking a photo every 5 seconds on the Nikon D 70 What materials/objects did you use? I photographed moving cars, time lapsed flags moving in the wind and also cars going up and down a street with people walking past. How did you photograph it? Using a Nikon D 90 and a Nikon D 7200 How did you edit it? Premiere Pro CC 2) Evaluate how well you did it Were you influenced by any particular artists or 4D pieces? Tony Plant inspired me in my time lapse and films like wallace and gromit inspired my stop motion. What were the challenges and how did you deal with them (give specific examples)? I didn’t intend to do a stop motion but I had to since I booked out the wrong camera but the outcome was still good. What other ways could you have approached the challenge? I could’ve had a story line to my time lapse/ stop motion instead of a theme.

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