overall as a module i believe that i have made progress since last years cop module. however i personally believe that it is not one of my strongest. the fact that it is a highly written module is an immediate downfall as forming formal sentences is highly complicated for me and i feel like what i say doesnt make all that much sense at times. for example after i reread my initial essay draught it made absolutely no sense and i had to rewrite so much of it to understand it myself. however since last year i chose a subject that i know more about as well as having a massive interest in expanding my knowledge on the subject. as someone whos preffered future career may revolve around similar aspects of the theme i chose, i feel like it would benefit me greatly to keep learning about what the genre involves, and the audience it aims to please.
for next year i intend to try keep the theme similar in terms of the general theme. however i will have to find a more refined area of it to focus on, because that is one of my biggest flaws when it comes to research and essay work. i dont know what i should and shouldnt include and i believe that it is absolutely essential that i manage my research skills and figure out what is been asked into greater detail in the future. as i have found, i tend to look at the bits of a project that interest me more that splitting my research evenly. so in knowing this i can now learn to evenly work towards different parts of what i need to fully understand a subject. as well as this i intend to focus somewhat more on the illustrative side to my decided theme. as in this module i found it rather hard to find examples of work that i could closely relate to the themes i was researching.
as for the practical side of the module i believe that i have made something that i can put into a collection of work i am happy with. however at the same time it could be much more refined and the images could be better. the contents of a few of the pages i am very happy with as i am not usually wery good at making a point come accross in imagery. the quality of the final publication itself could be way better, if i had organised my time more effectively then i belueve that i would be able to make the book longer and to a higher standard. doing this would impact the eerieness and the impact of the images and i believe would be a much better piece. i would also touch on my visual journal. i found myself creating images and sketches that were more for my own preference and i wish i could have developed my final images more. however it was rather late in the project before i knew how i wanted to draw out the images for each page. on the other hand my designs have vastly changed from my origioanl ideas and mock up books. i feel like my intentions at the begining of the practical work were much more thought out as well as challenging. so i am rather dissapointed in myself that i couldnt make some of the book format ideas. so by achknowledging this i plan to force myself to make some products that i wouldnt naturally consider. if i challenge myself more at this stage in my studies i believe it would be highky beneficial to my knowledge and understanding of potential outcomes to future briefs and possible self assigned projects.
looking back at the final book i would say that the transition from the image on paper to a digital print of the image could have been cleaner. i now see that if i made the final images slightly more compact than the final drawn image size then the images would look cleaner with stronger line work. i will remember this for next time and attempt to make my images with traditional media more easily made into a professionally printed piece.
something that i feel has gone very well is the tone of voice and the type of work i am creating. this module had forwarded my understanding of the type of work i would like to take forward. as i mentioned that i struggle communicating opinion through images, i believe that i have found a way that i can incorporate it into the kind of images that i make. in doing this i feel it to be a large personal step as it seems like a crucial ability to have.
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