HA3 - Evaluation


Due to falling behind in my last assignment HA2 Lucozade Label Attractor, it was important that I produced a time management plan which shows where I’m unable to do work because of things outside of college, term time, free lesson etc.  I found filling in this plan hard because I wasn’t sure how to split it all up evenly, but using the plan has kept me well on track than it did before. It was useful thing to do, and I kept it updated every few weeks, because even though I used it, things changed around and I did some things probably not according to the plan. Also doing that meant it changed how much time I had to do stuff.

For task 2 we had to make research into Romeo & Juliet and Shakespeare.  This was a short but detailed task because we had to link it all together on how we could modernise Shakespeare. I spent too long on this task like the other one, and I not quite sure why. I enjoy putting mood boards together but I am very easily distracted and many factors in lesson can instantly distract me and it sways me away from doing the work. As well as mood boards, I made some mind maps and ideas generation which just shown the meanings of Romeo and Juliet, and how using ‘hip-hop’ can help modernise it which helps us create our final images. I then had to think of what scenes I was going to base my 6 final images on. It was hard to pick ‘key events’ of the film because I think they were all relevant, but I came up with my 6 ideas and was really happy with them.

I needed a big push to start Task 3 because this was where I actually started mocking up the images in Illustrator and creating them in Photoshop. Even though I’d been getting used to Illustrator and Photoshop since September, I found it difficult to approach the task. I made myself familiar with the pen tool and got down to drawing the images. I really thought about what I was putting in the images and they have all came out really good. At this point I had fell behind again and If I was to do anything different it would be to not have as much time off ill because it effected the rate at which I produced  my work. As well as creating the images, I made print screens of my work throughout to show the progress I was making each time. It shows evidence of me doing the work as well.

Unfortunately I didn’t hit the deadline for this assignment due to being off ill for about 2 weeks altogether, I did do some of the work at home but it was limited as to what I could do. When I finally finished the images I was so relieved. I just really wish that I hadn’t fell behind, because I was determined to keep on track throughout the whole project, but I’m happy with the end result.