OUAN401 - Proposal

As I do for next year I plan to look into conspiracy theories. I want to choose a topic that any related to history and facts and fiction, and what better way to do this then looking into some of history's biggest controversial claims of historic events. I decided to choose this as well as it generally does interest me having mysteries that aren't solved and related things to that has always been something I have been extremely fascinated by, I'm a sucker for a good mystery. And relish this opportunity to delve into some of history's biggest intrigues.

I will link my proposal presentation, as that has morphed the research needed to look into the beginnings of this interesting endeavour into conspiracy theories.

Link : https://issuu.com/medi-hafedwards/docs/proposal

OUAN401 - the evaluation.

This module, I found incredibly difficult to do. I have rather minimal skills when it comes to writing and struggle with spelling grammar and punctuation. All skills needed to write a standard essay of academic standards. Being a person with dyslexia brings a lot of difficulty into writing, do feel I have tried my best even with the obstacle of dyslexia.

 To begin, I created a half-hearted effort at an essay, and now I see how the first rendition of the essay was not qualified enough to be able to be a passing grade. I feel I've come along way when regarding this essay as I found that I have had to challenge my skills a lot. But I am surprisingly impressed with what I was able to do when I actually sat down and did it which was difficult for me, as my time management skills are extremely poor.I feel after really researching into the essay that it was a lot easier than I was expecting it to be which is something I should really take into account in future assignments when regarding writing

I did however, enjoy researching my topic I made the wise decision of choosing something that did interested me, and due to this I didn't really want to create something that was deemed of a good quality. Regarding the first part of the essay I feel went rather smoothly I enjoyed looking into the creator of the quote and how he had looked into how history was written. I did however find comparing the essay with an animation rather difficult and felt my essay was rather lacking in that specific area.

The concertina sketchbook was an extremely enjoyable aspect of the brief. Keeping a sketchbook I feel is something rather rewarding, and being able to create one to go along with the academic research gone into the essay I found to be a very enjoyable experience. Some aspects of the concertina sketchbook I feel could have been improved upon but there are other aspects that I am rather proud of and am happy with but this is something I will take on board and hope to do better in the future.

Earlier mentioned before my time management with extremely poor, I should have been a lot more on top of the workload I was given but I struggle when it comes to keeping up with all the work that I am expected to do, I am working to better this and hopefully regarding future essays another cop work required I shall be much more balanced with my time management.        

  As a conclusion I would say the whole of this module has been an eye-opener and one that I can definitely say has opened my eyes into academic writing and to definitely look into bettering my ability to research and write in an academic manner. I Feel like I have developed somewhat from this and aspire to continue to develop my skills in the future.

 

OUAN4O1 -The storyboard.

The storyboards was something I wanted to be colourful and interlocked with both the animated sit feature and the quotation. I wanted it to be a fast-paced quick burst of facts. As I felt history is a fleeting thing so I wanted the animation to be a quick fleeting sort of form of documenting in a visual manner. Generally I am happy with the outcome of the storyboard, I say this as I feel that it all of the criteria I wanted it to reach. It opens with the boat of a pirate ship or a boat in general with the male gender symbol on the front. This was meant to represent how women were meant to bring bad luck upon a vessel or ship. I then move on to having Joan of Arc jump across the screen as I felt she would be a good form of representation to women's rights to fight and represent their country, I then move on to using lightning to transition over to an image of the suffragettes holding propaganda posters. The suffragettes part to reveal a Viking woman a cake and a cow three seemingly unrelated things. The car was meant to be a form of comic relief for the animation due to cows being more well-known for being a docile animal, they are actually more of a killer then a shark which is known to be a much more fearsome animal. The cake was meant to represent the doubt surrounding Marie Antoinette's let them eat cake saying. The Viking woman is wearing the incorrect attire for a Viking, a male Viking wearing the right helmet enters the shot to remove her helmet angrily giving her a stern look. I wanted to end the animation rather whimsical note as I wanted it to be over educational but or enjoyable sort of animation, and am happy with the outcome.

OUAN401 - the concertina sketchbook.

Regarding the sketchbook, I found that I really enjoyed the making of it. I found creating pages to be earned experience that really helped me clarify a lot of what I should have been researching into. I'm really happy with some of the drawings I've made and am equally unhappy with some of them as well. I really enjoyed making the colour palettes part of the sketchbook due to it having such vibrant colours and it was interesting to learn about how these colours have affected our history. I decided to focus mainly on keeping some aspects drawn some aspects quotations and some aspect screenshots of certain television shows and related things on that. I felt having the sketchbook with me was quite relaxing almost as it was something I could go back to when I feel lost when it came to the essay.

Here are some screenshots of a few pages that I really liked creating I really felt that I like to share.

OUAN401 - Peer review

Recently, we had a peer review where we showed each other are concertina sketchbooks. I found this to be incredibly helpful as it was good to see how other people had gone around creating their sketchbooks and to hear what people thought of my own work.

I had a lot of positive feedback from my peers, each of them saying how that my concertina followed a algorithm or a pattern and it was a very clear pattern which pleased me as I was aiming for. I did though, realise that I was falling behind with the amount of work that was expected of me to do by that point. I decided from there that I needed to work harder and to create more content for my sketchbook.

In general, I found this to be a really enjoyable and helpful look into our sketchbooks I realise now that I need to begin planning my storyboard as the deadline is approaching and I need to be able to create the storyboard and have it ready for the third essay.