Responsive as a whole has been an extremely beneficial module. Not only has it shown that my illustrative work can exist out in the real world, but it has also opened my eyes to a range of new techniques, medias, contexts and functions of my work. It has come with it’s difficulties however, and though I’m proud of a lot of the work I have produced, I have had little success in terms of winning briefs.
Starting with the individual briefs I feel I covered a range of formats and contexts for my work to sit in, and while some of these briefs felts as though they benefited me more than others I’m glad to have completed all of them. In instances I feel I could have pushed my work further rather than doing something I felt comfortable with, this module was an opportunity to try out new things and push my work in new directions and I feel that primarily for studio brief one I didn’t take full advantage of that. I also feel there were times I replied heavily on digital manipulations of my work as I felt that was what judges were looking for, rather than just doing what I enjoy doing and creating looser analogue illustrations.
The collaborative part of this brief however is something I really feel my practice has, and will, benefit from. Before starting the brief I was apprehensive on how it would progress and how my work would fit with someone else’s. Though I enjoy the work I create I was a little worried it wouldn’t fit with another creatives way of working and that I would perhaps feel a little useless in a group role. This couldn’t have been further from the truth!
Working with Izzie Glazzard was one of the saving graces of this module. After hearing the horror stories some of my peers have had with their groups I’ve realised the importance in working with someone who you not only benefit from in a technical sense, but someone you can have a good working relationship with too. Our practices are quite different in the way that we work, and though at the start I was worried our styles just wouldn’t work together, it has had such a positive impact on our project as a whole. Given our differing skill sets it was easier to assign roles within the grouping, and working with just the two of us allowed us to bounce ideas around quickly with the same focus. Time wasn’t wasted in our project ensuring everyone knew their roles or ironing out crease and crossed wires in intention and concept.
When it came to both technical and conceptual aspects of this brief I feel we both had different things to offer which allowed our project to grow in ways it wouldn’t have been able to do if we had been working on the project independently. Time wise it also allowed us to work at maximum productivity, being safe in the knowledge that we would both complete the work required of us also saved us from a lot of chasing around.
Towards the end of this brief I feel we did lack a little on time management, meaning that some of the tasks we would have liked to have completed such as trying out different stocks or net designs couldn’t occur, and the final filming and editing of our video submission was completed to a tight deadline. This aside however I’m very proud of the work we created and would happily collaborate with Izzie again!
As with the last module hand in, on a personal level, time keeping is something I have to work on in regards to blogging. On the practical side of this module I completed each brief before the deadline and feel I could have pushed myself to take on more briefs BUT was unable to do this as I had a backlogging of blogging to catch up on. I must remember to blog as I go as it will really benefit me for future hand ins and achieving my top potential in each module.
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