Ding ding, round two.

As semester two commenced I received the unfortunate news that A3: Sounds Like a Plan had been referred. To be honest this was something I was expecting and had already prepared myself for the worst! I felt I had a strong package in respect to the academic written work, although I knew that my ideas generation phase of the assignment was weak and inadequate and feared this would cost me a pass, which ultimately it did.

A new submission date was set for the referred work leaving me less than a week to complete a whole new screen design from scratch. Along with the referral work for A3, we had also been issued our 5th & 6th assignments to be cracking on with, A5: Builder & A6: The Big Picture, providing me with a huge amount of work to get through. On a lighter note I received my results for A4: Typecast, which I’m pleased to say I passed, despite making a huge error during the typography exam.

With A3 now completed and re-submitted I feel I can focus my full attention on the forthcoming assignments, having already created a production schedule for both (something I deeply regret not doing for previous assignments). With the addition of this schedule I now have a clear view of the project objectives and believe it will help immensely with my time management and planning.

Moving into our third week of our second semester and we’re now well underway with both assignments, researching our Photoshop topics (curves & levels) for the group presentations of A6 and the introduction to XHTML for A5. I have to say I was quite apprehensive about starting the technical coding side of web design, however I’m really enjoying it so far and believe that I’ll take to it well.