Evaluation

I really didn't enjoy my elective.

And I learnt very little as I know its unprofessional to say but our tutor didn't seem very enthused about teaching us as a group and you could only learn anything if you went up to her and asked.

From getting my one to ones with her however I did learn the basics of using the studio, such as lighting equipment, light meters and coloured gels etc.

The brief we were given was pretty much totally self directed with only a pre requisite of an essay and a way of displaying your photos.

I struggled to balance concentrating on my current project in Vis Com and the elective as it was far too spread out for me. Having over three months to finish the project when only having one night a week with no crits along the way really didn't motivate me either.

I definitely will choose to do my elective in a short period next year so that I can get it out of the way with as once I start something I usually don't finish until the deadline but having other and what I thought to be more important deadlines got in the way of my progress.

I displayed my theme of Light in a hard back album and blew up 5 of my pictures to A1 and A2. This was expensive!!! but worth it as they looked fab and I'm going to try and sell them to recover the expense.