End of Module Student Evaluation
BA (Hons)
Illustration
Module Code: OUIL502 PPP
Name: Joe Baker
Student ID:JB259571
Please
identify where the evidence for each of the learning outcomes is within your
submission and how well you feel you have met the learning outcomes. Please
also grade yourself in relation to the learning outcomes using terms: poor, satisfactory, good, very good,
excellent (Note - This is so that the
team have an understanding of how well you feel you have done. It is not an
indication of the actual grade you may receive.)
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Learning Outcome
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Evidenced
where?
Blog, Visual
Journal, Roughs, Final Illustrations, Storyboards, Development Sheets etc. (No more than 75 words)
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Your grade
Using words:
> poor,
satisfactory, good, very good, excellent
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5A3: Demonstrate
an informed understanding of professional context of their practice within
the creative industries and cultural environment. (Knowledge &
Understanding - Research and Critical Awareness)
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This is
evidenced on my blog, where I have investigated other artists work and where
in the creative industry it lies, also how it could possibly inform my own
own
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satisfactory
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5B2:
Identify
and analyse the challenges and opportunities offered by future developments
within individually appropriate areas of creative practice. (Cognitive Skills - Problem Analysis, Problem Solving)
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Evidenced
on my blog, Where I have shown interest in other artists work and the journey
they have taken to become a professional in the creative industries, this was
done through interviews and by researching them
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good
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5C2: Develop a body of work in response to a defined brief that effectively
demonstrates professional working practices in research, planning and
communications.
(Practical Skills - Visual Quality and Conceptual Development)
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Demonstrated
on my blog, I haven’t done any practical briefs for this particular module
but I did work for short competitions and a commission for other modules,
which have informed my personal practice greatly
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Satisfactory
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5D2:Employ a range of appropriate professional communication
methods to record and present their own creative practice, concerns and
ambitions. (Key Transferable Skills, Organisation,
Communication and Evaluation)
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Evidenced
on my blog, where I have successfully communicated with a professional artist
and received information which will inform my own practice and creative
journey
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Good
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Summative Evaluation (See Evaluation Guidance on next page
for more information)
You are required to write a 750 word Summative Evaluation of
this module.
Please type up your Summative Evaluation in the box below.
Make a PDF of the document and post the PDF as your final post on your OUIL503
blog. Also, please cut and paste the
text from this box into the final page(s) of your OUIL502 Project Report.
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At the start of this module I was looking forward to it
because I had enjoyed ppp last year as we got the freedom to make work that
we wanted to make, for example the poster. Now that we are at the end I am a
bit disappointed that I haven’t done much work outside of the college
modules, however I feel that now we have the summer break in a couple of
weeks and no college to think about it will let me be creative and practice
making some work of my choice which I’ll enjoy.
Although I haven’t
done much practical work for this particular module, I have actually learned
a lot over the year in terms of my own practice and I’ve picked up some new
skills along the way. For example, going out meeting someone about a
commission, this was for the responsive module but it has benefitted me and
given me the confidence to do it again as I know this will be a regular thing
to have to do after I graduate. I also now know that I want to concentrate on
editorial illustration, and have learned some new practical skills which will
help me achieve my own visual signature, like scanning in gouache paintings
and creating images made up of multiple layers. I have also realized that
contacting professionals isn’t as scary and as big of a task as I thought it
would be, even though most didn’t reply the ones who did seemed very nice and
keen to answer my questions, I believe this is definitely a good way of
making contacts in the creative industry. I also went to a couple of
exhibitions I found out what a great source of inspiration this is, as I’ve
not really been to any that interested me before this year.
Something which went well was the creative report where we
interviewed a professional, this is surprising because I kind of left it till
last minute and started to panic that I wasn’t going to get anyone in time.
But someone replied and was very swift to answer my questions, it was an
exciting experience because I’ve looked at their works for a long time on
Instagram and then to suddenly get a message from them was really weird.
I wish had done more in terms of doing practical work
other than college stuff, but to be honest I’ve been quite stressed for the
whole year because of all the work so any free time I did have was spent
doing uni work, never just randomly drawing/ painting or making personal
stuff. Maybe I should have set myself a personal brief early on so I could
have experimented and recorded all my steps on the blog. I also wish I didn’t
let this presentation affect me so much, speaking in front of a class of
people is a massive deal for me and I’ve found it very hard to cope with over
the past few weeks. As its got closer all my other work has just seemed to
grind to a holt and it takes me a long time to do any work related task
because I spend most of it replaying how the presentation might go over and
over in my head, I managed to do it last year but went though a similar sort
of thing. Seeing as we don’t have any tuition on them I guess its something
ill just have to deal with until I’ve finished the course.
I am going to take forward my new found confidence in
contacting people outside of the college about my work, for example the
professional illustrator and the man who commissioned me to draw him some
designs for a skateboard. I am also going to apply what I’ve found out about
the importance of a visual signature to my work in level 6, this is actually
my main aim. To start making work I actually like and to keep developing that
style, because ultimately this is the only way im going to progress. I don’t
want to end up making work I don’t like for a living, or even end up in a
totally different job than illustration as a result of not finding any
briefs. So the main thing I am going to apply to future modules/ projects is
my awareness that graduation is looming so concentrate on making good quality
work, whilst still experimenting as this is the only way to learn.
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