Our animation class has been put together with the digital media students, and we found out that our tutorial topics will alternate from week to week between the two. The tutorials on Thursday mornings are technically 'optional', whereby we have to attend them but we can choose which tutor's class we want to go to each week. On the weeks that the digital media students will be focused on, I will probably go to a different subject instead which might be handy for my studies.
Part of the submission for this module at the end of the semester will be a process book.
Submit ONE hard copy and ONE scanned copy on CD. The hard copy will be returned to you after assessment .
There is no word length for this Process Book but it should be A4 size and it needs to
be legible! As appropriate to your medium and genre it should such things as:
- research on other relevant productions/practitioners in your medium and
- reflection on what you have learnt from these
- inspiration from theoretical readings
- reflection on subject research ie of your topic (do not just cut and paste pages
from the internet but COMMENT on what you have found and why it is valuable to
your project)
- brain storming diagrams
- notes on technical experiments/tests, thoughts on challenges arising
- location recce notes (where not submitted elsewhere in the portfolio)
- character biographies and back stories (video and radio drama projects)
- list of interviewees and what you hope to get/have got from them (where
relevant)
- reflection on the current state of your project and any challenges you are facing
The process book should reflect the development of your thoughts and research
over the module and be compiled AS YOU GO ALONG and not be something that
is collated just before hand-in. It should also include notes on lectures, your
workshop crit sessions and feedback, and your responses to those ideas.
The process book should clearly show the individual student’s contribution to
project containing notes/images, reflections on reading/viewing and
practice/research undertaken in preparation for the project as the whole and
your role in particular.
Mary gave us guidance on how we should build our process books, and broke down weekly tasks for us to do. The five main tasks each week she advised us to do were:
- take notes in all classes, tutorials, workshops etc.
- take notes in lectures, even public lectures outside university.
- consume any and all types of media, such as attending exhibitions, films, TV shows. Use proof such as screenshots, ticket stubs, photographs, programmes.
- read critical texts, such as essays from previous years.
- experiment with with drawing and technical practice. play with and break technology.
I am mainly going to be recording my process book via Blogger, which I can update to at home, uni, and on my phone. I will scan and upload any drawings or anything else I can't link to online or screenshot. I find it's the medium I'm most comfortable writing on, and is easy for me to keep organised and easy to categorize and search. Mary advised us to submit our process book with an index or table of contents, which will be easy to do through Blogger's 'labels' application.
Most of our work this semester will be self managed and done outside of class time. The workshops will mainly be used for sharing and reviewing our work. The main purpose of meeting every week is to get guidance and feedback from our tutor and classmates. because of this, I will need to keep my work constantly accessible either via cloud storage or on an external hard drive so I can be ready at any time to show it.
Mary gave us a few galleries/events in Brighton we should keep track of for good exhibitions we can review. I followed each of Fabrica, LightHouse and Phoenix on Twitter to keep up to date on everything going on.
