With this project I first found it hard to sum up a subject within five hundred
words, even when looking at only particular aspects of a subject I felt as it
was only looked over briefly. The topics given to us felt quite broad, and
while this was a great opportunity to explore themes in some of the topics, I sometimes
found it hard to focus in initially and plan a structure of what themes I wanted
to write about.
Though I feel that with the particular media I was analysing
having only the ability to write and present images may have bogged down the
essay too much with explanations of what was happening. While you may be able
to afford give explanations in a larger essay in five hundred words it feels
like there has to be a lot of compromise with what you say. I feel that in the
essay format my analysis skills could not reach their full potential with just
images, and It may have benefited if I had used gifs to explain movements better,
or even used video elements as it would of allowed a clearer and more concise
explanations and would of opened up deeper details such as explorations of
characters posture.
I initially found the
referencing process hard but I feel my biggest problem with the project was
finding sources on some of the subjects I covered as a majority of the things I
looked at led to relatively unprofessional sources and I may have ended up relying
on one to two core websites for my bibliography. As well as some of the works I
looked at where not always given proper citation when I was adding them to my bibliography
leading me to having me hunt around for the proper sources
The topics that I chose I am both experienced in inexperienced
with, I would generally know where to go with the topics however I have taken
more things into consideration now with character design in both human and
animal respects which I hope to apply to my work in the future and not only
character design but character creation in the gender and visual bias essay I felt
that questioning character motivations was a good practice.
I feel if I were to tackle the process again I would make all four of the projects more homogenous in that way I could reference a more in depth pool of subjects than four smaller and largely different ones. Although I found the process challenging I feel as if my overall knowledge has grown and skills have expanded from this experience and I can easily apply what I’ve learnt through my work. I feel I would benefit from this type of exercise again but perhaps more focused in on one particular subject so it can be explored more thoroughly.
