Responsive - Evaluation

Evaluation of OUAN503 - Responsive

I found this module a lot more difficult than I first thought I would have.

Throughout the first few weeks, I was quite ill and was having quite a lot of doctors appointments which often landed on a Thursday, making me miss a lot of the sessions. This caused me to fall behind quite a lot and even though I tried to keep myself up to date with eStudio, I think I fell behind too much to catch up properly.

The workload was very heavy alongside other projects and I really have struggled with it; I’ve tried to get my practicals done (and I’m aware that I haven’t even completed all of the required ones) but my blogging has taken a serious hit.

I didn’t find any of the briefs that we were asked to choose from at all inspiring and I had very little motivation to do any of them.

None of the YCN briefs partiulary interested me, I found them all a bit dull.

My initial thought was that I was to do the J2O brief, but after reading it over and over I lost interest dramatically. I ended up picking the Yorkshire Tea brief which slightly sparked my interest.

Although, I didn’t dislike doing the work for my selected briefs; I chose ones that I thought would interest me personally, so that I didn’t lose interest when designing the outcomes.

I am quite proud of some of the work I’ve managed to do under the circumstances but I know it won't be enough.

I really enjoyed designing t-shirts for Qwertee. It was very open to whatever you wanted to design (subject to approval) and because of that, I was really motivated to get some done. I also found it quite exciting to see how many votes I had on my designs at the end. And although I wasn't keen on the YCN brief, I'm quite pleased with how my Yorkshire Tea packaging came out.

To summarise, I do feel like I have learnt some things about working to a professional brief and I now know what to avoid doing (procrastinating, having a lack of motivation) should I get the chance to work on one. I have felt like dropping out of the course several times over the pressure of my workload which I know is mostly down to my poor time management. If I could re-attend all of the responsive sessions I would, just so I had a better idea of what was going on, I pretty much went in blind. I know to put a lot more of my spare time into my work in future.

As I mentioned before, I am quite pleased with some of the work I managed to produce but alongside that, I have definitely struggled with this brief due to workload and fault of my own. I will try and learn from my mistakes and take the things I’ve learned from this module on board.