Thinking about Prof Comm submission: Skills audit + was this blog helpful?
I am certain I mentioned this in my reflective report but this is important anyway. I feel like a lot of times, people audit their skills by using a 1 to 5 degree system, but they assign those degrees themselves so it becomes more of an opinion of themselves, which is fine but it sort of becomes a measure of... confidence? And confidence is really important in terms of this industry where it is about how well you sell yourself but for me, I find that system faulty which is why I am not using it. I want my work to speak for itself, and of course, I am able to sell myself, but I do not need this system to audit my skills. I feel like the quality and type of projects I use in my portfolio are enough evidence for it. In summary, because I have already spoke about it in the report: I feel like my skills have gotten better in terms of art direction. Am I able to use technical skills and software better? Of course. Do I have a weakness? Yes, video and it is a skill I intend to work on, but otherwise, I feel like my work speaks for itself.
No was this blog helpful? Yes, it was good to ‘journal’ but I still prefer journaling offline. My eyes get super tired from using my computer so often, but it was nice to see my progress in such an easily accessed platform. I intend to keep using a blog, a different one than this, to show the in depth workings of my work, so yes. This blog was helpful and it was a pleasure to keep more often than not updated :)
