Have I met the brief? looking back at my first post where i copied the most important parts of the brief and parts which i felt i needed to remember and work on most throughout this module:
Students will be asked to challenge themselves to reconfigure their practical outcomes so far and to further explore and interrogate the form and content of their output/work. Students will continue to develop own practice and themes alongside exploration of new materials and mediums. Students will be asked to explore other mediums/formats and presentations of ideas as a means of extending potential and exploring new avenues. Tutorial support will be provided to help students. Students should make use of existing skills based workshops to extend their technical and aesthetical grasp of visual ideas and communication. The module will conclude with students using temporary and alternative mediums and spaces to display and publicise their own work to date. There will be a series of in-progress group discussions, critiques with peers. Learning outcomes
A student passing this module should be able to:
1 Demonstrate originality in their creative practice and communication using a range of media.
2 Understand and engage with technical and aesthetical presentation and meanings within chosen media.
3 Act autonomously in planning a body of work and demonstrate ability to systematically resolve technical and creative issues to successfully communicate with specialist and non specialist audience.
4 Demonstrate the ability to critically evaluate their own work and those of others in relationship to contemporary practice across different media.
5 Contribute to peer critique and engage with dialogues across a range of practices
This module provides students with the opportunity to propose and produce a coherent body of photographic work in an alternative/new medium as specified by student. It will provide the bas.is for identifying current experience and the scope for developing practice
submission for Assignment - Checklist: In addition to the above and in order to meet professional portfolio requirements, students will have to produce: Proposal - As submitted on 15th February 2017. Sketchbook/blog clearly showing the development of ideas as either blog or written form (stated above). This can be saved to disk with appropriate links. An evaluation; of the work, of the intended method of audience engagement, and the effectiveness of the choices made with regard to subject material, production and method of dissemination. The evaluation must reflect on development of ideas and work and also consider the objectives laid out in the original proposal.
Either (or a combination of): Final ‘gallery ready’ example piece/s to correct size and mounting and /or framing style/s as specified in research and reflective evaluation. Installation work example/s, suitable for recording and submitting to portfolio review, competition, residency or similar as specified in research and reflective evaluation. Portfolio of printed and sleeved photographs or video stills (printed and presented to professional standards) as edited and specified in research and reflective evaluation 3-10 minute (maximum time can be negotiated with course team in advance of hand-in) fully edited HD-video piece (submitted as .Mpg format), complete with correctly balanced and edited sound/dialogue with titles/captions in a format ready for both large screen and web projection.
To evaluate, I think i have gone above and beyond the necessary requirements of this brief. I am extremely happy with the final outcome of this project, I think I put a lot more time into the research and development of this project than i normally would and have looked at a lot of different sources for inspiration than I usually would, such as literature, poetry, paintings, and other forms of narrative. I’ve also tried to keep my research of photographic narrative fairly broad, looking at everything from how text is used in different ways to how images of clouds are used, and family photography. Since this project is essentially a lot of elements coming together, i thought the research I did managed to successfully inform each part of the project. For this project, i also gave a lot of consideration to the edit of the book. Since I haven’t produced a book like this before, I tried to base my design off of my existing skills in creating phonebooks but incorporate a lot of different ideas revolving around text. Whilst i have made quite a few books before, I have never made one with such detailed and extensive text, nor a portrait styled book, and rarely mixing elements. For me, deigning this book was about finding an equilibrium between text, photographs, scans, and negative space. I made a greater effort in deigning this book to really pay attention to why i was deigning everything how i was and challenging myself to try something a bit outside of my comfort zone, and i replay think it paid off as I think my book that i’ve ended up producing is nothing like the other ones i’ve made but equally, if not more, successful. I also enjoyed the collaborative part of this project as i had to work with my mother a lot to get the right kind of audio for the text and it was really interesting having an outsiders input, i think having her keep up to date with he progress of the book really made it more catered to a wider audience because where i got professional advice from parties who did not know the stories she was telling at university, i also got a non-photographers perspective. One of the biggest problems i’ve had in this project, and one which i am still struggling with, is explaining the book. I’ve tried to design the book in a way which now by beginning to read it, it would require no future explanation, so in part i think thats why the afterword works so well. It serves as a means of explanation without bluntly pointing it out at the beginning. Some other psychical issues which have been an issue through this project is that i don’t have a laptop or design software, so all of the book design work has had to been completed at uni which is a bit of a struggle as i don’t live nearby and the opening hours don’t coordinate well with my schedule. I’ve also had some issues with finding time to use the scanner, but in the end i’ve managed to achieve what i intended with the book. Earlier on in the module i struggled a lot with ordering the pages and trying out new things, i tried turning the images black and white, using images and colours as backgrounds for pages, and experimenting with pairing different sized images. I would say none of those things worked very well and in the end i managed to come up with an order which worked well for both the text and images, but as you can see by the volume of edit’s i’ve made there was a lot of tweaking about with the design. I had always intended that if i made a book for this model it would be physical and with the intent to exhibit and sell. However, at the beginning of the module i had also thought about producing a video instead of a book which would have been exhibited. I quickly abandoned this idea as i really just thought a book would work so much better. I am happy with my choice, and i think it makes a really nice addition to my portfolio of books but i think the next step in my work would be to produce collections of books, and set up to sell or distribute my books.
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