Evaluation

EVALUATION
OUGD 301

Out of all of the modules I have done here over the past three years, this has been my favourite to date. I may have not have done all of the brief that I set out to do as many where changed and one or two have been condensed but I have produced a vast range of work, to what I feel has been a high quality.

One of the main thing’s that I have learnt this Module is how to better keep my time management, or more importantly not to dwell too much on briefs that could be done quite quickly. This started to happen part way through the module when I started on my Marvel Novelization brief. I started the brief on a Monday and by the end of the day I had already completed the Fantastic Four book with only a few minor tweaks needing to be made afterwards. This will certainly help me next year when choosing and writing briefs in which I can evaluate exactly how much time will be needed.

The brief that took the longest to produce from start to finish was the Fashion Hero range because I kept on changing my idea for how it should look and be perceived. I was so focused on trying to make them un-feminine that I missed the point of my own brief. However, once I realised where I had gone wrong it was an easy enough mistake to rectify and I believe the designs have worked well.

The brief I was doing along side Fashion Hero was November in the North and I believe it too fell to the same fate. However, through Lorenzo’s tutorials I was able to see clearly about my layout problems and I feel that with the experimentation I did that later pages look far better and visually appealing that the original competition entry.

Though I have enjoyed this module, I’m not sure that the work I have made really supports me yet as a graphic designer, especially as a sequential designer. Only in one of my briefs have I used my own characters (November in the North) and these are characters I have a had for a few years. I have yet to completely create a set of characters and apply them in such a manor as a comic book. This is something I hope to rectify in my final major project. I have used this module as a test for thing’s to come and even though it did not go wonderfully, I now have a list of thing’s that can help me improve for next time.

One of the great thing’s about this module and the way I set my self up in the studio is that I would blog everything every night before I went home. This happened mostly on my practice blog and not so much on my context blog, which I feel has been my downfall.

Overall the module has been a good one and I now know just how hard I need to work next year in order to produce high quality work.