OUIL402 - End of Module Self Evaluation

• Throughout this module I have developed many new skills and also improved many, I think my development skills have improved massively and I now find it more useful and beneficial to my work to put down all of my ideas and focus on getting them down rather than the quality of them. I think that I best applied my development skills in Brief 4 as I kept on testing backgrounds and ways of creating texture in order to best communicate my quote. I think that my time management skills are also improving, as I am finding it easier to balance my time equally between the different aspects of the course.
• I now like to focus a lot more on creating texture in an image and letting that shape my final piece. During the concept development for the Initials Brief I found that experimenting with creating different textures was very important in developing my ideas, because often the textures that I created would then lead on to me coming up with or expanding on a new idea. I found that putting down loads of mini concept ideas onto a sheet was a very effective way of coming up with enough ideas, I intend to employ this method of development more in later briefs.
• I think that the way I can easily change the way I work and create images to fit to a certain brief is a strength of mine, I don't think that I am bound by a certain 'style' and can create different types of images using different types of media and I'm not afraid to experiment or go out of my comfort zone. I think my work has become stronger since I started experimenting more with shape and texture.
• I think that because I have found a media that I like to work with, I sometimes tend to begin working with this straight away and carry on using it because I know that I can get good results with it. I intend to start using collage more as it is something I haven't experimented much with. Also I sometimes tend to get stuck onto one idea that I think works for the brief and not want to try to create more or stop developing it, for example in Brief 4 I found almost straight away the idea that I wanted to use as I couldn't think of any other ideas that I thought would fit with the brief. 
• During the next briefs I intend to experiment more with collage as I think this would give me a lot of different results that I have not had before. I am also going to try and step away from an idea even if I am happy with it and think it describes the brief, as I may end up coming up with something better if I carry on generating ideas. Throughout our next brief I intend to focus more on development rather than the final outcome, I think I focussed too much on the quality of the final pieces for the previous briefs. I also need to spread my time even more equally between visual language and the briefs that we are given, as I found that I tend to prioritise too much and often leave one thing until the last minute. Finally I think that I need to focus more on ongoing evaluation during a brief, I do this mentally but I think I need to improve this by putting more of it on my blog.