It was our final assignment of the entire first year and I can honestly say this was on of the most enjoyable assignments. The blog work this time was slightly lighter and I felt I really perfected all of my blogs on this particular go, whereas previously I have had so many, I almost lost control. I feel my organisation is now under control and I plan in advance when I am going to blog, to make sure the outcome of them is as high as it needs to be.
1) Evaluate how you have grown and developed as a practitioner, during this assignment?
I feel as though my editing and organisation skills in the planning of a production has significantly improved compared to previous projects and assignments. Even though our time for each project in this assignment was limited, we had a feasible amount of time to plan, film and edit a production to the best of our ability, and still make it look quite good! I have thrown myself into the planning side of things too, by creating storyboards and brain-storms to make the production easier to film.
2) What 2 things are you most proud of?
During this assignment, I am most proud of My Recurring Dream, which was the recreation of the actual My Recurring Dream, directed by Andre Chocron. I really like the way I edited this, and my friends and family have also looked at my videos from this assignment and agreed that this was the sleekest project. I feel as if I really got into this, and enjoyed critiquing the original movie, and writing up how I edited and processed mine. I am also proud of the quality of my blogs. I feel as if they have improved in the sense of perfecting them. I have included links and a number of quotes during critiques, and really gone quite in-depth detail of when I write up about my personal productions.
On the whole, I really felt as if this was my favourite assignment by far. I have loved every single production and the editing of my projects has improved dramatically. I feel as though I could improve on editing productions a bit better when we have to create a soundtrack. The Foley production we had to create, I found quite difficult, and felt with a little more time to plan and execute the edit, I could've done much better on this.
I have throughly enjoyed my first year at Plymouth College of Art, and cannot wait for the second year. I would just like to say a big thank you to Tim, Billy, Mike, Neil and Wendy for being absolutely incredible tutors and helping me when needed! See you in September and roll on Year 2!
Cheerio. :o)
- Olivia.
