Review of My Objectives: 23 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 had a video meeting with my tutor today and have documented this. I will add the new objectives arising from this below.
In preparation for this I had some specific queries listed in that post. Of these the major point was that I believe that in general my work is not so visually strong and does not always fully express what I intend as well as I can express it in words. I am unclear as to how to develop that better
Objectives Identified Previously
OCA course Admin and medium and longer term plans:
The major issue here is to ensure I know how to submit my work for assessment and by when. I also have started looking at the next courses available to me and becoming familiar with their content so as to be able to make an informed choice.
Skills:
Film Photography
I have not taken this forward since my last review but my major learning point remains 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.
The feedback from my tutor was that my documentation of my exercises is “thorough”. However it remains the case that 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. My aspiration for my standard of documentation of methods, is the principle with which I am familiar from my previous bio-medical research that experimental details need to be given to allow other investigators to repeat the experiment with exactly the same conditions.
Find ways of sharing my work for comment and criticism
I have not actively done anything more about this new objective since my last review of these. However as I had discussed my plan for Ex 5.2 with colleagues from OCA North, I plan to add the final selected images to the padlet for comment.
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:
I have described this above and it is to find ways to better visually express my aims and intentions.
Knowledge:
My objective was to gain a better understanding of other art disciplines and influence on photographic work. While this remains an ongoing learning objective, my tutor has suggested artists at whose work I should look.
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.
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.
Andrew Procter 