Evaluation

Ryan Daley
Context of Practice

OUGD601

Evaluation

Being able to research into topics such as feminism, The gaze, Female objectification and the history of film posters all in one essay has provided me with a vast knowledge of various subjects, the topics researched ranged over decades featuring the Second wave of feminism and the golden age of cinema to modern day. Film poster design and cinema in general being something that interests me as a designer means that the topics that have been discovered will remain with me throughout my design future.

Having written a complete paper on the topic of my choice and then designed, what I feel to be a relevant practical piece alongside this, the topics I had researched were thoroughly relatable to my practical piece and the finalised piece that was designed made use of new founded techniques and methods of design that hadn’t previously been used in my design history.

Conducting primary research in the form of interviews provided some valuable information benefitting the dissertation. Interviews in adverse to surveys gave the freedom to quote the interviewees and gain wider opinions on a demographic of my own age. Secondary research was conducted also, something that thanks to the previous COP modules over the past two years, there was no problem with. Gathering research and quotes from books is something that comes freely to me now also feel comfortable referencing the gathered information.

Information that can be analysed and critically compared to other sources through means of triangulation and other methods has been crucial for widening my knowledge of the design world and greater contextual issues.  

Research provided me with knowledge and aid when created final designs, critiques with peers and tutors gave valuable feedback and design direction when I needed this. Experimenting with new methods of design along with new software was valuable and will benefit me in projects to come.

Time planning was something that went successfully during this brief reaching the deadline, completing a full dissertation and also experimenting and printing a practical response. Time planning along with regular tutorials provided me with goals and objectives to aim for that I managed to reach and successfully stay on track for.

Using my dissertation as a verbal representation of my findings, along with my blog and design boards that conclude a visual representation of what I’ve learnt these all collectively show my findings for this project and how masses of context and research can thoroughly aid a design project.