To Vlog or not to Vlog

Originally I was going to vlog most of my progress through out this project as I enjoyed the video classes that we had last term. However it's something that keeps slipping my mind and I tend to only film after an event rather than during so I think I'm just going to make an accumulative video towards the end to sum up what I've done and how I did it. I might have a separate one for my final piece and concept so that it doesn't end up too long. 
I do like documenting my work in this way I think it's an effective way of getting my point across but I do feel kinda awkward when I'm filming, especially when it's in front of different people. So, I think I'm going to continue with it as it will help to build up my confidence and maybe I'll actually be able to create videos as a part of my work or even a final piece once I have more confidence and I've built up my skills.

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.  

Portraits

I've been looking into some different ways of making portraits, different styles, colours and medias. I can't decide if I want to include a self portrait or leave it to just my Brother, Dad and Grandad.

Feeling professional!

Today I found out that a project idea worked on in the summer last year (the Huntington's children's book) has been nominated for the Creative Showcase! This is giving the project a chance to be widely recognised, and they even named me specifically!
This is what they had to say about it:

"Brand: Scottish Huntington’s Association 

Title(s): HD Routes

Agency: Pocapoc
Agency website: http://www.pocapoc.co.uk
Creative Director: Sacha Mason
Graphic Illustrator: Zoe Green
Published: February 2015
Short Rationale: Scottish Huntington's Association (SHA) has created its new youth resource, designed by Pocapoc.

Unveiled last month, the project comprises an innovative resource to support young people affected by the degenerative brain disorder, Huntington's disease (HD) and increase awareness of the condition. The resource, which includes an offline resource and online flipbook, was developed by Scottish Huntington's Association Youth Project (SHAYP) and designed and produced by Pocapoc.

Entitled 'HD Routes', the resource aims to improve the lives of young people who live in families affected by HD. The new learning pack has been developed over the last 12 months by the team in close collaboration with the young people they support and has been funded by the Young Start Fund.

HD Routes uses games and fun activities to help young people learn more about HD and the challenges that living in an HD family will bring as they grow up.  Although designed specifically for young people, it will also be a great resource for professionals and other adults looking for accurate information written in simple, easy to absorb language.

The new resource was launched by Acting Children and Young People's Minister, Fiona McLeod MSP and has been commended by the Children's Commissioner as an exemplar piece. Young people were involved at every stage in the design process and the resulting resource is a UK first as no other organisation has developed such specialised information about the condition specifically for young people."

Here's the link if you want to vote for it ;) (p.s. it's quite near the bottom of the page!)

Creative Showcase

Presentation Panic

Today we had to give our second draft of our presentation and I dunno why but I wasn't to anxious about it until bout 10 minutes before, which is better than the last time where I was panicky the whole day. Thankfully we were allowed to use our 4hr lecture to work on the presentation, which helped as I re-wrote what I was going to say (although that meant that I didn't get that much project work done).
The actual presentation went fairly ok and I don't think I was talking too fast, however I didn't use flashcards this time I read most of what I'm that I sounded quite mono-toned.

LONDON!

6 of us went to London for 3 days and it was such a good few days. I'd never been to London before so I was quite nervous about going down but it turned out that it wasn't to scary, although I could live without the tube.
We decided that it would be easier to stay the night in Edinburgh rather than travel and it was nice but I didn't really getting woken up by our noisy neighbours 4.30am but that's the joy of hostels. Then we headed off on the train. Which was 4 hours, I didn't think it would be that bad but it was quite boring and cold. Once we arrived though it was ok.