Review of My Objectives: 8 July 2020

Review of My Objectives: 8 July 2020

 

“My over-arching objective now is to re-establish an effective, regular pattern of working in order to be able to complete the course with a view to submission for assessment in November 2020.”

I have submitted Assignment 4 to my tutor as planned and continue to work to my timetable to complete the final assignment by the end of July. I have been looking at other aspects of administration for the OCA and have identified new objectives specifically around the process of submission for assessment and also about the choices of the next course.

I hope that my next tutor feedback will be a meeting rather than written so that I might have a chance to clarify and get advice about this, however I have not had a response to my request for a Zoom/Hangout type meeting yet. I will be adding a new class of objectives around this for future reviews. (“OCA course Admin and medium and longer term plans”)

Objectives Identified Previously

Skills:

Film Photography

I have developed the film I shot for Exercise 4.4, but not yet printed it. I plan to but the pressure of the deadline for completion means I am tending to do exercises in digital as it is quicker.

My major learning point about this is to establish for myself what the reason is for using film over digital. This is something I plan to do going forward to the next and future modules.

Better documentation of the technical elements.

I am making a conscious effort to take detailed records of technical parameters of my film work and other settings where these are not recorded in the metadata of the digital images..

Use of Web-based and other Electronic Learning Tools

Use of other Work Sharing Websites (eg Padlet)

We have had OCA North meetings to discuss this. I can see that Padlet is only a sharing tool, and am now confident with using it – but need to work out what I need to use it for! I do not think that learning about the procedures for using this needs to be an objective going forward.

Engagement with Electronic Web-based learning events

In the last two weeks I have not joined any new events as I have been working on my practical exercises. In other contexts I have become aware that such remotely accessed events are effectively like any other learning or social experience and like the previous objective, I do not think the “use” of these over any other experience is an ongoing objective for me.

However I am conscious that there are many ways of sharing work available. I use social media very little, but have seen from studying some photographers’ work that these are important ways for them to share their work.

My new objective to replace “Use of Web-based and other Electronic Learning Tools” will be “to find ways of sharing my work for comment and criticism”. In addition I am seeing that social media provide a forum for expression of personal views on areas hitherto restricted to “experts” (such as bio-medical research, an area of which I have personal experience). In the same way, images are more easily shared and there is a blurring of the boundary between expert (artists) and non-expert. This is a theme I would like to look at more over the coming months.

Assessment and appraisal skills

This remains an ongoing task and my objective above (“to find ways of sharing my work for comment and criticism”) reflects this.

New Skills needed:

Studio Lighting

I have no immediate plan to incorporate this into any work. While I recognise it is an area I can do more about, I do not intend to retain this as an objective in this list for now.

 

Knowledge:

My objective was to gain a better understanding of other art disciplines and influence on photographic work. The feedback I have from my tutor is that I am “starting to connect other art forms to your method and approach to research”. However, this remains an ongoing learning objective.

To gain an insight into more contemporary and historical approaches to photography

I have looked at the work of photographers to whose work I have been directed to by my tutor. I am conscious that I have not looked at much work other than that referred to in the course notes in the last few weeks. This is of some regret as I was more wide ranging in my reading and study in the earlier part of my course. The deadline to which I am working has made me more focussed, and has emphasised the discipline of study. However I will continue with this, and more general reading and study.

Studio Lighting

Better theoretical knowledge was a goal, however as discussed above, while it is an area I can do more about, I do not intend to retain this as an objective in this list for now.

 

Attitudes:

My objective was the “Demonstration of creativity – Imagination, experimentation, invention”

This remains an objective and I hope with better understanding of the creative process used by other artists I will develop this more.