Assesment hand in reflection
As a conclusion to my Honours year study I would like to firstly explain why I chose to submit a blog and no on paper work. The reasons for doing so are that my project was about sustainability and a paper free environment is more ecologically sound thus adding something relevant and unique to my project. Having a blog makes it very simple for clients to see your progress with projects and it shows a degree of transparency through my work where people can see how much effort I have given and time I have spent. It allowed clients to PR themselves through the work I was doing and it gave me more exposure. Another reason I chose to blog my progress with my Honours year is that I have done a lot of video projects and you would have to be an actual insane person to look at a printed screenshot from a video you have never seen with an annotation such as “I like the tempo change at 02.23s” and feel like it had been in any way informative. I am very happy with myself this year both with my exploration in process and practise. I have taken on some projects that I thought might have been too challenging and I feel I have succeeded and learned new processes through it including welding, sandblasting, woodworking, using the kiln, laser cutting, vinyl cutting and a whole new range of photography skills. I feel my professional practise has come a long way too and I think this is evident in that the majority of my work this year has been client based. The projects that have been live briefs and clients were Hush Chandelier, Waste Aware Christmas tree, Pearl Lounge photography, Video work for Boardeline (ROME UK video), Video work for Snowsport Scotland (LASS, Scottish Champs), Video work for Aberdeen Snowpsort Centre (SSBX) and the logo for Fersands and Fountain. When thinking about my main project I feel it got a bit blurred as to where my main project starts and ends. I consider anything that is related to sustainability that I have completed for honours year to be my ‘Main project’ and the things not directly related to sustainability are my side projects. The individual projects all have their own page which you can find on the left hand side of my web page and all the my final outcomes can be found on the page ‘Finished Outcomes’ All of the pages are in chronological order so the oldest tagged post will appear first. Which is interesting as the brief for the project may not be at the start. Overall I’m happy with my performance this year and I really hope I get my honours degree. www.grantanderson.me www.wooleh.tumblr.com
