Study Task 7 - Self

Reflections on myself

As a practitioner:

5 Strengths

Developing and experimenting with an idea and getting multiple perspectives

Experimenting with media and techniques

Critical reflection on work I produce - I have blogged about everything and explained my thought processes and reflected on crits and tutorials etc

I stick to what I know best and my own style but I am not afraid to step outside of my comfort zone

I take people's critiques on board and it really helps me to develop my ideas and refine them

5 Struggles

I need to blog more on a regular basis. Sometimes I get so caught up in the practical side of things and I forget about the critical reflection of what I am actually doing.

Need to start adding more appropriate contextual research and read more books or articles to help broaden my contextual knowledge.

Blog more effectively, stop and really reflect on what am I doing and ask myself questions like, am I being ambitious enough? How could I take this idea even further?

Maybe be even more ambitious with my concepts? Use more metaphors to reflect my intent

Add more three dimensional experiments to my work - I simply do not do enough because i don't think i am particularly good at it

As a student:

5 Strengths

My attendance - I turn up to pretty much every briefing and workshop - it is rare that I have to look back on estudio over a presentation

I manage to have a good work/fun balance - and have never missed a deadline

I try do get everything done with a day to spare so I am not stressing out the night before

When I am motivated by a project, I get really into it and don't like to stop going with my ideas

I make sure that I blog about everything that is important in my project

5 struggles

It takes me some time to actually start a brief after it has been set - I spend that time on other briefs when really I should just make an immediate start on it.

I have been late a few times and missed the initial walk around crits

I don't blog regularly enough - leaving it for a while and then doing it all at once - I should really be doing a little a lot.

Perhaps have earlier nights because a lot of the time I feel so tired and demotivated to do any work

I need to do a lot more work before my tutorials - I often found that when the tutorials came around I hadn't actually done much work resulting in me not being able to achieve the best possible feedback for my project.