RESPONSIVE EVALUATION

Overall I think this module for me has been successful and I have produced a lot of work for competition and live briefs. My time management and being able to juggle multiple briefs and responsibilities at once has been good, and I think that for this reason the work that I have produced hasn’t suffered too much in terms of the quality – as the quality of the work across all the briefs has been consistent. The same could be said about the collaborative work that has been produced whilst working through this module, time management and work ethic has been consistent throughout.
Despite the quality of the work being consistent throughout the whole of this module I think that the work could have been a little better – there are some areas where I think that I could have done better if I pushed myself a little harder to gain a little more refinement to the finished article.
If I were to revisit this module I would have taken more time researchinhg and seeking out competition briefs that suited my own creative interests a lot more than the ones I have chosen – although this does depend on there being competition briefs that run whilst this module is set. And this is not to say that most of the briefs that I had chosen to produce work for didn’t hold any opportunity to pursue my own creative interests, it is just that at some points within this module I felt like I was producing work that I did not have any meaningful interest in or felt like I was gaining something by doing it – however this may have served well as experience of what it is like work within the creative industry, producing work to ‘keep the lights on’
The things that I feel I enjoyed the most about this module was the wide choice of work that you could produce. It allowed me to produce work that was not necessarily relative to animation but more illustrative, and as I regard myself very much as a generalist in terms of my creative practice I found this quite enriching.
What I also enjoyed was the chance to experiment with different mediums in the more open briefs that were more relative to my specialist subject of animation, most notably the work that I produced for the ‘do it in twenty’ brief. This has helped me open up to new possibilities and new ideas – new ways in which I can approach future briefs.
I think what I least enjoyed about this module was having to pick briefs that I felt I had little or no interest in just to fill criteria, I initially found it very difficult to pick briefs and start them due to not being able to find any that I felt I would produce really good work for, due to them being interesting.
One thing that I think I need to improve within myself is my ability to work with others and challenge them abit more in terms of the intial ideas that we come up with, however this comes from me looking at the work we produced collaboratively and thinking it could have been better – but there was only a very short window for the pre production phase of the larger project that we worked on.
I think whilst working on this module my time management skills improved quite considerably, having such a varied and large amount of work forced me to be more organised and clear about what I was doing with my time and why I was doing it, this enabled me to concentrate on producing the work and order things in terms of priority.
This module has also given me a good insight into what it might be like work in the creative industry as a general creative practitioner working for yourself and collaborating with others, producing work because you have to for one reason or another seems like the biggest lesson/ message that I detract from working on this module and I understand that this will not always be the case but it is a realistic reminder of what working in the creative industry might mean for people at certain times in their career.