Module 8 Evaluation - Work Based Learning

Module 8 Evaluation - Work Based Learning 

For my work based learning module i have created a series of different pieces of work that show and supplement my progression and development towards creating a set of skill that further support towards my role as a working artist. these include setting up production pieces that support me taking on animation briefs. Production work includes a script, storyboards, and a proposal to what i will produce and achieve throughout the brief and planning of work, time and budget management. To put this work into effect I also created a live brief in which i would use this skill to show my progression as a commercial artist.

For my script based work i planned out each scene for my lion and mouse animation. this involved writing down and spoken words, background noise, scene changes, actions and narration. this had to be done in chronological order and followed a narrative which would later transpire into my actual animation for that module. I found that creating a script greatly improved animation production rate as I had a guideline to follow when creating visuals. this meant that there was no making things up as I go along and i had a set out plan of what i had to create visuals wise and all the directions and actions were written down by me. This prevented me from adding unnecessary scenes or accidentally missing scenes out. i feel that this improved by work based ethic and i will use this again in future animation production as it seems to be a great aspect that supplements my work rate.

After firstly creating my script for the animation i needed then to create some visuals to support it in pre-production. this was achieved by creating a series of storyboards that mapped out the basic visuals of each scene that transitioned the story from one section to another that the scenes were close enough together that you could string the story together. I decided to create these in a traditional media rather then creating a digital version. I feel that in my work personally that i prefer all of my pre-production notes and development to be in traditional media because i feel more comfortable in expressing myself in drawing by hand. I feel sometimes that basic ideas become too refined when created digitally because you have more means and ways to edit them.

After creating the majority of my planning and the means to understand what my animation will contain and require to be created for it I began writing down my proposal and treatment that will explain what i have to achieve, how I will achieve it, what i will create, how i will create it, what means and needs i will need to do this and the relevant costs and materials in including time frames that i will need to sustain and attend to during production.

The proposal was also supported by development and reference images of my character. This showed that I already had something to work from and a way to sustain my work and build it up from previous ideas and practical work. This allowed me to further map out my proposal and treatment by documenting where I would get my visuals from and where my animation was progressing from. This showed accurate time planning as I based out my project focus areas based on what I had to create and what had already created. This also let me know what I had not created yet and what would be most time consuming and how I should apply myself to this accordingly. These skkills will be important for future client work as it prepares me for a more successful way to go about a working ethic and how I should go about non-academic based live briefs in order to approach them at an appropriate level.

This treatment also explains why i am creating the animation and my ideas and concept behind it and what i, the client and the audience will gain from it and how i want to convey to those audiences. This self written proposal also explains what the criteria for failure and success was and i attended to all of these requires and fulfilled all of the appropriate and relative requirements that allowed me to achieve my goal.

I feel that my written proposal was successful in being informative to everyone and that anybody would be able to understand and follow it and understand the train of thought in it. Also that if anyone was given my proposal as a task for them they would be able to follow the route and plans in it and would also achieve the requirements to pass. I found writing this very difficult as Ive never written such a highly detailed plan before if it were even for myself or not. I feel i gain a lot of experience writing out a brief for myself and now understand them more and what they are asking of me when given them in the future. its also a good way of writing out a plan for personal tasks and achievements that i may wan to make in my own time or if i start doing more competitions freelance.

I was later able to apply my abilities in writing self proposals by setting up my own live task brief for my work based learning live brief task. In this task I was required to write my own time plan, purpose and achievement criteria that would allow me to pass and succeed in the brief. Mine was slightly different from others as other live briefs and competitions came with a deadline and outline for people to follow. As this was simply booking a slot at a stall at a convention I had to apply my own requirements and task outline and form a standard of completion and success. I felt that my previous knowledge that I gained from writing my proposal and treatment for my animated short help supplement this task and gave me some ground knowledge to work up from.

Personal development in skill was showed in the illustrations I developed and created for this task. I feel that when looking back on this task I seen a definite improvement from my digital painting at the start of the academic year to now. I feel that my final products created for my final outcome are to a very high standard for my skill level and im happy that I was able to achieve this throughout this task as because of the short time frame I could of easily rushed it and produce a lesser standard of work. This builds my confidence as a artist and lets me know that I am improving and getting better with each module I complete. However one point that I feel that was made prominent to me is that I do a lot of fan based artwork and I feel that I need to leave that area of focus and work towards more self generated ideas and concepts.

I feel that this year was more heavily based on attaining the correct sections of criteria given to us and was more strict on us following exactly what they wanted us to do. Whilst frustrating at time being taken away from some creative freedom I feel that it has also been an important lesson for us because we need to understand that this will happen a lot and we should learn how to combat tasks like this and approach them in a professional manner instead of just refusing to do it and this will only lower our reputation as artists. I've enjoyed my work based learning module and feel I’ve gotten a lot of experience form it that will prepare me for future work.