The purpose of this final assignment is to help you review your work and decide how you are going to submit it for assessment. Even if you are studying for personal development alone, it could still be helpful to take stock of the work you have made during this course and think about how you might develop it further. Although this sounds like a relatively straightforward and quick exercise, students generally find it takes much longer than they anticipated. Tackle this task methodically and allow yourself plenty of time to do justice to the effort you have made throughout the course.
Reviewing your assignments
Make sure you have carefully considered your tutor’s feedback on your assignments, and have made any changed that they have recommended. It is your decision whether or not to submit your assignments with the changes your tutor has suggested. However, you should at least consider their comments, and demonstrate this by taking appropriate actions. It may well be that your assignments are fine as they are, but since you have this opportunity to take another look at them, we suggest you do so.
For assessment, you should submit your original assignment (so that the assessor can look at it alongside your tutor’s feedback). Except for Assignment Four, you should also submit a hard-copy version including any revisions made in the light of tutor feedback, or any additional or revised images.
Pay particular attention to your Assignment Three, Critical Essay. This piece of work will be primarily used by the assessors to consider the fourth assessment criterion, Context-Reflection, research and critical thinking.
Review your Learning Log
Make sure your learning log is up to date. If you have skipped any of the exercises then now it the time to complete them. Look at your tutor reports and any correspondence with your tutor or peers and follow up on any suggestions they may have made (practitioners, techniques, books) that you have previously overlooked.
Check that the content of your learning log is logically accessible. Ensure all posts are appropriately ‘tagged’, e.g assignments, exercises, research, reflection. The ‘reflection’ element is vital: a blog without any reflective aspects will not constitute and true learning log.
If you have kept an additional hard-copy research folder, it is advisable to either photograph or photocopy it for security. Make sure that all of your work is clearly labelled with the number of the exercise and or assignment.
Your submission must look professional. Assessors are allocated equal amounts of time to look at individual students’ work, so remember: first, you don’t have to vie for the assessors’ attention; second, how quickly can the assessors access your work? They would rather spend the time looking at your work than looking for it.
If you have feedback from previous course assessments, remind yourself of the assessors’ comments as these may be useful to help you think about this submission.
Assignment One:
For Assignment One – Part One; I produced a series of twelve photomontage portrait photographs, using the traditional cut and paste method, taking inspiration from John Stezaker, Andrew Lundwall and Nicky Bird. I combined two portrait photographs, and pasted them together to make a new portrait photograph.
For Assignment One – Part Two; I produced a set of four photomontage portrait photographs, taking inspiration from John Stezaker, Andrew Lundwall and Marcelo Monreal. I combined several photographs together to make one final portrait photograph.
I have not made any changes to my original assignment submission. As advised by my tutor and his feedback, I did include a self-assessment and reflection about my assignment and explained my decisions when creating this assignment. I also answered his questions and included my replies under my self-evaluation.
Assignment Two:
For Assignment Two, Taking inspiration from Erik Kessels and Nicky Bird, I produced an online photobook that archived a series of related photographs that I found and purchased online. I asked the eBay sellers if they could give me any information about these photographs, and included their responses explaining where they had acquired the photographs from and whom they were of, on the opposite page to the photographs.
I have not made any changes to my original assignment submission. As advised by my tutor and his feedback, I did include a self-assessment and reflection about my assignment and explained my decisions when creating this assignment. An error was showing when clicking on the Blurb photo book link, due to it now being an expired link. I had to upload the photobook online and I have included a new – working link to the website.
Assignment Three:
For Assignment Three, I produced a 2500 word critical essay, answering and discussing the question – What is your understanding of the ‘digital self’ and what is the effect of our everyday use of photography upon it?
My tutor’s feedback – “You carried out a broad range of research for the essay. As mentioned above, I think you could have focused more on the first theme rather than diversifying in the final sections dealing with the ubiquity of the image.”
I have not made any changes to my original critical essay.
Assignment Four: Digital Identities Part One
For Assignment Four, I developed a project that explored the theme of identity within the current digital climate. I produced a series of 15 photographs that examined how I relate to digital culture and my own critical examination of the digital culture.
I have not made any changes to my original assignment submission. As advised by my tutor and his feedback, I have made changes to my contact sheets, as the size was too small and could not be viewed. I have also re-worked my self-assessment and reflection about my assignment and explained my decisions when creating this assignment, in more detail and included more research. I also answered his questions in my re-worked self assessment.
Assignment Five: Digital Identities Part Two
For Assignment Five, I produced a series of 11 photographs that continued with the theme of digital identities, from Assignment Four. This assignment was created to develop the digital identities project, to the point of resolution.
I have not made any changes to my original assignment submission. As advised by my tutor and his feedback, I have uploaded my final images singularly, so the assessors can open them up larger, as prior to this, the images were not loading to a large scale on the screen. I have also re-worked my self assessment and reflection, and I have explained my decisions when creating this assignment, in more detail and I have included more research.
Assignment Six:
For Assignment Six, I have reviewed my work for the unit Digital Image and Culture. I have made sure that all exercises are completed. I have made sure that all assignments are completed. I have made sure that all of my tutors’ feedback has been uploaded onto my learning log online and I have made changes, if needed, to my assignments or coursework. I have checked that all spelling is correct. I have made sure that all links are working. I have made sure that all menus are working and are easy to access. I have made sure that all research is referenced, with a bibliography.
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