Leah haywood ouil501 end of module evaluation

End of Module Student Evaluation BA (Hons) Illustration Module Code: OUIL501 Context of Practice Name: Leah Haywood Student ID: lh250738 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)

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)

Demonstrated on blog and throughout visual journal Good in terms of contextual and visual research. More so documented on the blog in the form of research, analyzing texts, quotes and videos. It is also evident in my essay where I have analyzed the social and cultural implications of my chosen topic.

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

Demonstrated on blog and throughout visual journal Good in the form of problem solving and image making.

Identifying an issue within research and aiming to produce an outcome that starts to solve that issue in the visual journal.

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)

Evidenced in essay and on blog. Analysis of primary and secondary sources throughout the essay helped build a critical awareness for my chosen area of research that I was then able to develop into a well-round essay.

Good

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 on blog and in visual journal. In my visual journal I applied processes from research on a rejected essay theme that I feel have in turn been useful in the composition of image. I identified a process that I felt would be the best relatable way to compile a collection of imagery for this research project and combined this process with my

Good

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

skills) (research)

research in order to produce my outcomes.

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

This is evidenced in the construction of my essay, my visual journal, specific study tasks, throughout the blog and in my cop3 proposal. I feel that I have developed my organization skills in order to be able to self-direct my research projects and this in turn has help me develop my critical understanding of my chosen essay question.

Good

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.

My journey within this module started in a completely different area to where it ended. At the start of this module I was dead set on producing an essay and body of work that looked at the relevance of zines in the digital age. As much as I was enjoying researching about this topic, it just wasn’t hitting the spot for me, I felt like I needed something with a little bit more substance. Maybe I was looking in the wrong places but either way, I decided to revisit my COP work from first year and identified some key areas of interest that I had developed when the module had ended. This led on to me developing a body of research into the selfobjectification of women and the internalization of the Thin Ideal.

I believe that my research skills have been refined throughout this module. Creating my own question meant that I had to be very specific in terms of my research. This was both a good and bad thing. I was able to quickly eliminate research which was not proving useful or relevant to my essay question but also their was a struggle to sometimes find the things that I needed to link up different sections of my essay and research. I also feel my practical skills have developed during this module. I took the research into zines that I initially began with and started making collage based imagery that I felt best communicated the themes and ideas explored in my essay. I feel that working this way is something that I have come to enjoy and have been able to bend to fit around what I needed to communicate.

I feel that in some parts, my visual journal went well. Overall I am pleased with the aesthetic it has produced as a final journal and believe that there are some good quality pieces of work within that that strongly relate to my essay and add towards solving the problem I had identified within my essay. I also feel more confident in structuring an essay and managing to reference correctly, this is something that I struggled a little bit with last year but now feel more competent in completing.

Once again I feel my time management for this module was horrific. My level of attendance to the COP sessions towards the end of the year was lacking and I feel this has reflected in my outcomes. I also struggle with deciding on my own question and area of research and feel that if I had made a better informed decision at the beginning of the year, I would not have been half as stressed out as I was towards the end of this module. Next year I want to identify my area of research early on in order to be able to avoid messing around with changing direction and swapping questions at the last minute. I also feel that I lacked feedback from tutors and peers but this is something that I purposely avoided. I never felt as though I had enough work to show and in turn, I didn’t turn up to some of the review sessions that were offered.

In terms of what I can apply for future modules and projects, I feel that my developed research skills are something that can be applied across all areas of my practice. Research forms the basis of any project or module so to be more confident in knowing where to find information and how to select relevant information is something that I definitely think will help in future modules and projects. I also feel that I would like to carry forward the process of collaging in order to create a visual response to something. I feel more competent working in this way and feel that it is something I can begin to merge into my existing practice. The constraints of working in the visual journal also helped me address how I create work within a confined space and I now feel more confident in work with different sizes and layouts of sketchbooks in order to maximize the space I have and develop my ideas fully.

Evaluation Guidance This should be a reflective summary of your experience across the module.

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How did it go? Where did your journey start, where did it end?

I knew very little at the start of this module. At the end of the module I feel that‌

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What learning took place? What was useful to you?

Be specific. New skills? New methods? New processes or approaches? Did you use the blog to reflect on your project development?

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What went well and why? What did you enjoy? What were you happy with as an outcome?

Be critical and analytical. Why did you enjoy it? Perhaps identify particular sessions?

This could be ideas, solutions to problems, studentship or research. How well did you use the studio? Did you invest enough time in the development and testing of your outcomes?

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What could you have done better?

What were the problems you faced? What did you do to try to overcome them? This could be in reference to studentship, organization or blogging as much as studio practice.

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How can you apply what you have learned here for future modules and projects?

Application and future thinking. Things you would do differently next time? What useful methods, processes and ideas will you take forward into the next module?

You may also want to consider:

Self-questioning: How did your thoughts and opinions change as you progressed through the module?

Feedback: What other people (tutors and peers) thought of work and how you responded to that feedback?

Research: Did you use contextual research to inform your ideas, ways of thinking or understanding of the challenges set. This may include further research of your subject matter, slides from the presentations or use of the library.