Glad to be back (January 17th - 18th)

It felt good to walk back into college on Wednesday morning. Iv missed having something to focus my mind on other than crashing cars and the royal mail. I walked in and sat with my new feedback group, Jamie and Marc. I worked with Marc in the last feedback group and I think we worked well together. I have not yet worked with Jamie but we have talked on breaks and he seems to know his way around most of the software so I’m sure the new feedback group will work well.

After break we received our grades. I was very happy to have achieved a merit for A3 and a pass for A4. I am eager to know what I did well for the A3 assignment, because I felt I had done a lot more work and certainly stressed a lot more over the previous assignment A2 where I only achieved a pass. Maybe if was because A3 was fairly similar in layout to A2 so I was more confident in how I spoke about things.

In the afternoon we were given our assignment A5 which meant we had to learn the basics of Dreamweaver. I found the basics quite confusing, but I do think it is a software where you need to spend time, for lack of a better word playing with to learn through trial and error. Dreamweaver is a major part of web design so I am looking forward to creating my first website and hopefully continue to achieve a high grade.

Thursday was a day that confused me a little. The assignment we received is a bit of a mystery. The first part is to create and give a presentation on typefaces. I was given Claude Garamond to talk about, I have never heard of him before but we do have a lot of time to research and plan a presentation. The second part of the assignment is a timed exercise, we will be given a task on deadline day and have to plan and create a finished product in order to pass that unit. I think this represents what working in the industry will be like more than anything we have done before but is also unnerving that your place on the course could be in danger if you buckle under the pressure and not get anything handed in within the deadline.

So to sum up the week it does feel good to be back and the new feedback group seemed to work well together on the time plans we created, so a positive start. For both assignments I will basically have to get my head down and put the hours into learning the software and gathering as much feedback as possible.