Thursday 13th September

Today was a different type of day than the usual days that we had. It was a critique day where we talk about our work, in-front of a group and a member of staff and gain feedback and constructive criticism. My group has another 10 students in, and we had a tutor. I was really nervous for this as I have never presented any piece of work to anymore, I always avoiding it in school due to my confidence, and school was a hard place for me so I felt as if I couldn’t get up and speak in-front of people. The session was completely out of my comfort zone, but I presented my work, and I presented with confidence, and it didn’t feel scary, and I felt as if I have overcome my first hurdle. I feel like it will be easier to do any other presenting because I got the first one out of the way. But also, it didn’t feel like being in secondary school, the entire presentation atmosphere felt so normal and natural, and felt like no one was going to judge you as we are all adults now. I really enjoyed the session.

I gained quite a lot of feedback about my work. The sheet below is what was filled out for me when I was speaking through my work.

The main thing that I am going to focus on through the presenting stage, which I am going to work on tomorrow which is my self directed study, is make sure everything in my sketch book is up to date, so when I am moving onto the next subject I am not getting confused, and I am not falling behind more. I am also going to be doing some extra work for the visual communication pathway because I feel like this is the subject that I wanted to do before I started the foundation and I really enjoyed doing it. I am going to create different work in relation to graphics, and do some research about the subject and just record it in my sketch book.

A lot of people shared with me that I have a very clear idea, and that the design process was clear and also I have done a lot of work for this small two day project. I went above and beyond because I created a lower case, uppercase, numbers and even some symbols. This took me such a long time as each letter had to be individually edited on Photoshop.

For the second half of the day with our presentation groups, we had to create an installation using a type face. Our group done the word ‘Unity’, with recycled materials. Below is the photograph of the final outcome: