OUGD202 - Design For Digital Media Evaluation
BA (Hons.) GRAPHIC DESIGN LEVEL 02
Module Code OUGD202
Module Title DESIGN FOR DIGITAL MEDIA
END OF MODULE SELF-EVALUATION
NAME Andrew McGowan
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1. What skills have you developed through this module and how effectively do you think you have applied them?
During this module I have gained an understanding of animation, how it works and how to plan for an animation. The workshops at the start of this module introduced me to techniques in working out timing and dealing with many layers and assets which was at first a daunting task.
2. What approaches to methods of research have you developed and how have they informed your design development process?
Towards the beginning of this module I had the chance to do a workshop in letterpress. I used this opportunity to explore how I could portray a word’s definition and character to try and help me with the brief. Though it was letterpress and we were working digitally, this intial experimentation helped me to develop some ideas that I transferred into my digital work. I haven’t really done much ‘research’ like this before, more collecting of things and after seeing the benefit this experimentation gave me, being more pro-active in my research in other projects is something I would want to incorporate in future briefs.
3. What strengths can you identify in your work and how have/will you capitalise on these?
I spent a fair amount of time in this project researching, working on ideas developing my animation before creating it. This helped me organise and give me direction though it did leave the amount of time for creating my final piece a little short. I should continue to do this thorough research in future briefs but in a shorter period of time.
4. What weaknesses can you identify in your work and how will you address these more fully?
While I was happy with how I developed my idea till production, though I wish I would have left more time at the end till properly polish my animation. If I had left enough time, filming in a studio with proper lighting could have improved the quality of my animation to a more ‘professional’ looking standard.
5. Identify five things that you will do differently next time and what do you expect to gain from doing these?
Work thoroughly and for a period of time in the early planning stages so that there is enough time to fully polish an animation.
Try not to overcomplicate and idea. By closing up the shots in my final animation from an earlier storyboard, I removed the need to use a green screen to provide a consistent background behind what I was filming.
