OUIL501 end of module evaluation

End of Module Student Evaluation BA (Hons) Illustration Module Code: OUIL501 Context of Practice Name: Dana Davis Student ID: DD250772 Please identify where the evidence for each of the learning outcomes is within your submission and how well you feel you have met the learning outcomes. Please also grade yourself in relation to the learning outcomes using terms: poor, satisfactory, good, very good, excellent (Note - This is so that the team have an understanding of how well you feel you have done. It is not an indication of the actual grade you may receive.)

Learning Outcome

Evidenced where?

Blog, Visual Journal, Roughs, Final Illustrations, Storyboards, Development Sheets etc. (No more than 75 words)

Your grade Using words: > poor, satisfactory, good, very good, excellent

5A1 Demonstrate a critical understanding of the aesthetic, cultural, historical, technological, social, political or other contexts relevant to individual subject disciplines.

(Knowledge and understanding) (Research / critical awareness)

Evidence: Blog, essay, journal

Very good

5A2 Demonstrate an awareness of the relationship between the theoretical and practical contexts of their own creative concerns. (Knowledge and understanding) (problem analysis/definition)

Evidence: blog, journal, synthesis

5B1 Evidence the ability to use logic, reasoning and critical judgement to analyse ideas from a range of primary and secondary sources.

(Cognitive skills) (Critical awareness)

Evidence: blog, research, essay

5C1 Evidence the capacity for undertaking practical and theoretical research that demonstrates an informed application of critical, effective and testable processes.

(Practical and professional

Evidence: blog, journal

This can be seen in my essay and in the research and reading done prior to the essay that informed it, also notably in the image analysis section of writing.

good

This awareness should be visible primarily within my journal where I have used theoretical & practical contexts to inform and progress my own practical journal work. Evidence can also be seen where I’ve made links between my own outcomes and theoretical contexts clearer in study task 9.

Very good

Evidence for this can be found throughout my essay where I have analised quotes and theories from a range of different sources and also in the reflection and analysis of research undertaken and documented on my blog.

This can be seen most clearly in my blogging of the journal process where I have made decisions and reflected on work I’ve produced. Being critical enabled me to decipher what was and wasn’t effective, and how I could move forward with more practical work.

good

skills) (research)

5D1 Organise and carry out selfdirected projects and communicate outcomes through written and other appropriate forms. (Key transferable skills) (professionalism / technical competence / visual quality)

Evidence: blog, journal and A2 poster pitch design board (synthesis)

Very good

I have evidenced this by producing a visual journal and a written essay along with the relevant research that informed them. This can be seen within those mentioned, and also in reflective blog posts explaining journal work and my project progression. Other situations where I’ve needed to communicate outcomes can be seen in my A2 design board and a 10 word pitch.

Summative Evaluation (See Evaluation Guidance on next page for more information) You are required to write a 750 word Summative Evaluation of this module.

Please type up your Summative Evaluation in the box below. Make a PDF of the document and post the PDF as your final post on your OUIL501 blog.

I started this module feeling a bit lost, I didn’t want to continue with the themes I’d researched last year but I didn’t know what particular aspects I was interested in. It took me a while to get into the swing of things and to really engage in my chosen topic – it was the practical side of the work that really got me into it. As soon as I started to just get making and drawing in my visual journal I felt like I had a tone of voice and an opinion to make. Although the concertina style sketchbook as its drawbacks at times I liked the way it allowed me to create a more flowing kind of narrative, I enjoyed the process of filling the book. Because it didn’t necessarily have to amount to any finalised outcome it was quite freeing to just keep on experimenting an exploring with different ideas and processes.

I learnt a lot of new things with this topic because it wasn’t really something I knew much about when I first started, The theme I began with was ‘technology’. I knew I wanted to explore subjects like social media and online image sharing but the texts I started reading lead me down slightly different route, from reading and researching I started to link the those ideas with things like art reproductions and self-curation, and the impacts all this has on the traditional art galleries themselves. That’s where my essay stemmed from. After coming to halt with my visual journal, this inspired me to go out on visits and draw from life. I went to a few of the local museums and galleries and just sat and drew what I saw. I don’t usually draw from life, it was a new experience for me really. Though I didn’t continue with it, this spurned how the rest of my journal progressed as I started to explore what gallery format and the digital layout.

The outcomes I was most pleased with in my journal were the Instagram inspired grid layouts where I did the line art then blotched colour over using a stencil. I enjoyed doing those because I love working with colour and line art, those where the two starting points I decided to work form for my journal development. Through a lot of modules there has been restrictions on colour or media so I found this module very freeing to just try out different things. To be critical you could argue that going back to what i like doing could just be a step back into my comfort zone, but as someone who struggles to find a particular style, I feel like being able to just plan the direction for my own project was better for my personal development.

On reflection, aspects where I could have done better would be in my blogging. I don’t think I blogged frequently enough about my journal progression, this meant that I ended up making huge PDF

document posts and I think that it could possibly be confusing where I’ve tried to talk through every process and next step. I think blogging little and often would have just helped me beak it down into easier chunks and helped me to reflect a bit better. At the start of this module I also faced problems when deciding what topic i wanted to cover, I spent quite a bit of time on the fence not knowing what to do, I eventually overcame this by just making myself read something – which sounds obvious. But at the time I was indecisive and conscious that the window for deciding on what I wanted to explore was closing, I was really just burying my head I the sand. Just taking that step of reading some actual material got me going. Organization wise if I’d have got this done sooner I wouldn’t have felt so pressured by the module.

Remembering to keep up with regular blogging and generally just being more decisive are definitely things I will keep in mind when starting future COP modules. One thing I found I enjoyed was working in the set journal format. I am one of those people that likes to rip out pages and start things over so having something where I was unable to do that did push me to just move on and get over things. For example, if I started doing some drawings and I didn’t think it was going anywhere I might just discard them but with how the journal was set out I had to just fold the page over and shift direction. This did lead to more reflection. If it’s not a requirement, this style of journaling could be something that I could still take forward into the next module.