#skyline project

[dontlookatmeijustknowstuff]

[dontlookatmeijustknowstuff]

[paulinekorp]

Evaluation of my SkyLine project

The aim of this task was to visually document my route and experiences during our trip to London. Therefore, we had to design and produce a set of postcards that represent our ideas.

At first the project was very confusing and I did not really get it how to connect the skyline with postcards and my route in London, but then I made loads of research and mindmapping, which lead me to tons of ideas and then I couldn't pick one anymore. 

Although, the postcard project was a good start-up project, where we could really put our conceptual thinking to the test and get to know the concept of Visual Communication more. As I have now realised – this course is all about conceptual thinking, looking and thinking out of the barriers, analysing everything and developing our own identity in all ways.     The thing I didn't like about the project or what really made it very hard for me, was that the brief was so broad and wide, so eventually I had so many ideas and techniques I wanted to try that I couldn't pick one. But I can understand why the first project has to be very broad. Maybe it is actually a good thing.     Although, I wish I knew sooner what my final idea was about so I could have made more footage for my project and maybe add more postcards to the series. At that moment, though, I had so many ideas, which were a bit impossible to produce even, because I didn't know how to film or how to edit those movies the way I intended to. This is the part where I literally wasted my time, effort and my footage. I thought I can make a movie out of our London trip, but actually I had a bad camera, bad editing skills, bad software for editing and etc!      Eventually I think my final idea was even better than all of the other ones, so the lesson to learn from this project would be: don't ever stick to the first ideas that come to your head and just capture every single detail, moment, any evidence that could make your project better afterwards.