Saturday 4 April 2009

Aim High!

With six assignments now in the bag, and only one remaining on the first year of the HND Interactive Media course, I feel now is a perfect time to reflect on the weeks gone by. Both A5: Builder and A6: The Big Picture came with their own degree of difficulty, however, having now successfully completed four assignments I felt I had what it took to achieve significantly improved results.

I went into A5 slightly apprehensive, as coding is something that I’d had no previous experience with. As it turns out my fears were unfounded, taking to the language relatively well. However, I must say that with out the help of the assigned guru’s (in my case Dan Dunsire) I’m sure the whole process would have proven much tougher!

Fortunately, all the hard work and dedication paid off, with A5 receiving a straight pass and A6 a merit! To simply to pass both assignments would have been fantastic, but to achieve the standard that would justify merit grade really pleased and motivated me for the remainder of the year.

Now several weeks into the final assignment my motivation for the course has never been higher, now knowing what is needed to achieve higher grades and having the inspiring result of a merit I feel very confident in the run up to the summer break.

Initial stages of A7: Rasterized (a client based assignment, involving such as the re-design the Raster-Noton logo) have gone reasonably well, although I have noted certain areas that could be improved. A better use of sketchbook work for initial ideas generation have been implemented for all design aspects of this assignment, something I now know is essential in achieving a successful design process.