PDP Hand in

Today is our final hand in for PDP, I'm pretty happy with my folder I think everything is in order.

Prezi

For PDP we've been looking into different ways of presenting our work and alternative ideas for the statement for assessment. Prezi was one of them: it's an interactive presentation that moves and jumps, you can easily add images, videos and text. I like the way that it works and think it would be a good replacement for the written statement for assessment as it's more visual and would hold someone attention. Something that I think it would be good for would be as an explanation at an exhibition rather than a blurb. It's interesting and dynamic but it could disteract from the actual piece it's self so it would need to be balanced with the piece as not to over power it.
In any case here is the link to mine (back on the multiples brief):
Prezi - Multiples

Posters instead of Statements

Recently we've been working on creating new ways of presenting our statements for assessment rather than just text based. I like the idea of having a more visual method of explaining myself but I'm unsure that I'll be able to get my point across as easily.
The first thing that we worked on was a poster, which I feel could be a good way of grasping someones attention and having a QRcode (mines links to my blog) on it means that people have a way of accessing more information about the project.  

Another scary week!

On Monday we discussed our PLP's with Paul and he told me how I could work on mines to make it better and what to add to it. However he also asked me if I was going to be ok looking at such a big part of my life. I instantly said yes as I knew that I wouldn't have picked it if I didn't think I could do it. However since Ewan wasn't in this week we just worked on our own in the afternoon this gave me a chance to really think about what I was getting myself into. It was a little scary thinking about the fact that people were going to know how I feel as when people ask me about the disease I usually just rattle off the facts and rarely go into how I feel and how it affects me. However I think that looking at it in this project it can only be a good thing, I doubt I'm going to get upset but rather relieved to have a chance to express myself. Also Paul said similar things to Rebecca as she is tackling a similar theme it was nice to discuss it with her as she understood what it was like to hear people ask you if you could handle such a project. We both agreed that we could.

I continued with my had painting this week, I put my headphones in, started painting and the hours flew by. Dot wasn't in this week either so mostly just got on with what we needed to do and discussed with each other what we going to be doing. In the afternoon I showed Catherine my PLP and she pointed out somethings that I should fix and gave me some pointers so for project.

Friday was a scary day. I actually came in early not because I was doing any work but because I was stressing myself out by sitting around the house. So I was standing outside the  room with Rebecca (we were the first to arrive) which worked in our favour as we went first. I'm glad that I was 2nd as I think if I had sat through everyone else's presentations first I would've freaked myself out. It didn't go fantastically well, I stuttered a lot, lost my place (which meant that I lost a few slides) but I kept going and got through it in the end and once it was over I was able to sit down and enjoy everyone else's. For the mid modules I was 3rd or 4th to go and that was pretty good too, this went a lot better and helped me to firm up what it was I need to to do for this project and what I wanted my final piece to be like.

Monday the 24th February

Today in Paul's class we were looking at time plans and resources.

17th-23rd of February

Ok so this week started off pretty well in Pauls class we did a peer exercise were we all read each others PLP's  (Personal Learning Plan) and gave pointers and advice on how to improve them. I thought this was a really good exercise as it allowed me to see what I liked about other people's work and meant that I would find out what I needed to improve. As we were doing this we were all taken off individually as to talk about our grades. Paul said that my work so far was excellent! I was so chuffed with that and I'm going to try to keep up the standard (I need to work on my blog though but I'm getting there). Then in Ewan's class we worked on our sketchbooks and then he gave us feedback from our drawing work which was again positive so I'm pretty happy with that. So Monday was a good day.

Tuesday we were making our own collagraphs for printing which was pretty time consuming but I enjoyed it, it was pretty relaxing. Then in Dot and Catherine's class we worked on our sketchbooks some more nothing out of the ordinally.

Wednesday I got my glasses! This is sort of college related I suppose and as now I can see clearly which is always good.

Friday when we got in on we discovered that David wasn't coming in so we decided to sit at the computers (some people sent off their essays, some did researched, some discussed our projects) then we decided to go for an early lunch. We went to Jimmy Chongs which was really nice. Its really lovely, I think, that our class go out and do things together so that was nice. Then we came for Dee's class where we were all working on our individual photoshop projects. I actually really pleased how many work is turning out as at the start I found photoshop really difficult.

Over the weekend I've been doing some more sketchbook work and that's about it for this week.

Pathways Presentation

For our pathways project we have to give a short PowerPoint presentation on the 3 pathways (Visual Communications, Applied Art Crafts and Contemporary Art Practice), artists that we admire within the pathways, which one we feel we want to be in, what type of work we want to create. The actual making of the powerpoint wasn't a problem however I stressing out about giving the presentation. I really don't like standing up and talking in front of people, sort of like stage fright and I know I'll end up babbling and going off topic. However thankfully our class gets on really well and we having all be supporting each other and discussing it. It makes me feel better that I'm not the only one that is worried.
I hope that I can get through as I think that we will be giving quite a few presentations in our time here. So hopefully I can get used to it and by the time I'm a 3rd year it'll be a breeze. Hopefully.