Monday 3 November 2014

Making lists. Study task 1 Responsive part 1

What do I want to get out of this module?

  • Better communication skills
  • Further development in design (characters, environment, etc)
  • Learning to work for a client instead of own ideas.
  • Perhaps collaboration with other people/disciplines?
  • Better research skills
  • Better time planning
  • Further development Animation
  • Working multiple projects at the same time (while staying sane)
  • Expand my portfolio
  • Networking.
List we created as a group: What do WE want to get out of Responsive?
  • Win stuff!
  • Things to avoid
  • Make briefs relevant to you, mould them.
  • Get out of your comfort zone *
  • Produce work on a range of formats, expand your practice
  • Communication and network skills
  • Where does our work fit? Refine your practice
  • How to work for someone else, what does the client want
  • *Where to get help with areas we aren't confident in
  • Deadlines and working multiple projects at once
  • Finished work->Portfolio->Online presence
What does the class think?
  • Win stuff ->Money/pride/trophy
  • Exposure ->recognition/publicity/fame
  • Connections
  • Build a portfolio -> distinct/range/commercial/individual
  • Collaboration -> discipline/clients/experts
  • Experience
  • Placements/Work etc
  • Awareness of the competition (trends/quality)
  • Real world deadlines
  • Where in the industry to fit.
10 reasons competition briefs are useful
  • Freedom of choice
  • Get to deal with solid deadline
  • Chance to stand out from group of people.
  • Win material prizes
  • Lets you do what you actually want to do
  • Help you make your work more commercial/what kind of work you want to make
  • Good for networking with other competitors
  • Keep up with trends in the industry
  • No clients to deal with back and forth
  • confidence boosting.
Class:
  • Freedom choice
  • Open to creative interpretation
  • Strict deadlines
  • Driving standards up
  • Risk taking
  • Confidence boosting
  • Comparison to other practitioners
  • Showing off
  • Experience
For next time we have to choose our briefs from YCN and answer a set of few questions to understand the brief better:
  1. What is the problem?
  2. Who will benefit?
  3. What's the audience?
  4. What is expected to communicate
  5. How to be delivered?

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