OUGD502 PPP2: End of module evaluation

OUGD502
PPP2
END OF MODULE EVALUATION

Message and Delivery Research: Final Crit/Evaluation

For this crit the class was split in to two. The first half of the class analysed our posters, while the second half were out of the room. after an hour or so the groups swapped and we analysed and evaluated their work whilst they weren't present. I think this type of crit was successful, you didn't have to worry about feel unconfident about speaking your mind as the person who designed the poster wasn't there. The aim of the posters was also to be bold, eye catching and easy to understand. This type of crit lent its self very well to the poster brief as the poster designers weren't there to tell the audience what the posters were about. Overall my feedback was positive, but the crit has helped me realise areas of weakness and things i can improve with in the posters.

First set of feedback:

This crit was mostly positive feedback. Although it feels good to receive such good feedback, it makes it hard to evaluate my work and find room for improvement. This person hasn't given me any feedback on how to improve this brief/briefs in future.

Second set of feedback:

Again this crit doesn't provide much critical feedback for me to work on. I think personally there is room for improvements on my posters, but the people who have viewed my work don't seem to think so. This gives me courage that the level of design that i am producing is appropriate for degree level.

Third set of feedback:

On this person's feedback they said that they don't think that my image poster is as high impact or memorable as the other two. I understand where this comment is coming from as i found this poster the hardest to produce. To correct this I could ask for further feedback on what i can do to improvement. Alternatively I could produce more thumbnails and sketches to see if i can come up with anything better.

Self evaluation: 

Overall i think i have worked well on this brief. I have met the brief requirements and produced three posters based on the news story i chose. I think one of the reasons that this brief was a success was the time I spent before i started designing brain storming and sketching. This is something that i haven't done in the past so my final pieces aren't thoroughly selected or tested. I think that a weakness was running out of ideas for the image poster. I knew that drawing was one of my weaknesses so wanted the posters to have a digital feel. I used a range of techniques for this brief such as cut paper, photoshop and tracing on illustrator. I think i have produced three well linked and seamless posters that communicate the message that i chose very well. I am pleased with my progress throughout this brief and the ones that came before.

'How to...' Evaluation

What role(s) did you take on in the group: 

One role that i took on with in the group was generating lots of ideas. I came up with the use of CMYK and helped by contributing how to make other peoples designs stronger. I also took the final pictures of the product as well as presenting in the final presentation as it is one of my strong points.

How well do you think you performed with in the roles: 

I think I performed well in my roles. The main problem was that we all had conflicting styles and ideas, so sometimes i felt disheartened and didn't work at my flu potential. Over all i think i worked well within my roles.

How well do you think you worked as a group:

I think all members of the group worked well with in the roles. Although I admit i had some trouble voicing my opinions with in the group. I sometime found it hard to speak up, wanting to avoid confrontation. Because our style of work was all so different compromises had to be made. There was also some problems with communication outside of the studio time, it was sometimes to rally everyone up and get everyone together  to do work. However after the presentation, there was an overwhelming amount of feedback saying that we had worked well as a team and seemed to have bonded. Group work is new experience for me, and i think as it was the first time it went very well.

What would you do differently next time: 

Next time i would definetely spend more time working together. I think that the lack of team work at the start of the weak was due to shyness and not feeling comfortable with each other. Because we worked separately to start with we generated too many broad ideas, so it became hard to incorporate everyones style and choose just one design. 

Where could you have improved your resolution: 

I think we could have improved our resolution by generating more ideas as a group, as well as conducting more product research, we didn't have much primary and secondary research for this brief.

What were the strengths of your presentation:

It was clear confident and concise. We worked well as a team and  delivered the message we needed to. We were confident and clear with our speech, even incorporating a sense of humour to engage the audience. Like i said earlier the feedback from our presentation was very positive.