Result

I got my assessment result a couple of days ago and I passed Documentary with 72%.

I’m extremely pleased with that. It’s only 1% less than I got on Gesture & Meaning, so I’m consistent!

Assessment criteria

• Demonstration of Technical & Visual Skills
  • “Complete fluency of technical and visual skills.”
  • 25/35
  • Same comment and mark as I got for G&M; still not sure why “complete” means 25/35 though… :-p
• Quality of Outcome
  • “Highly effective work presented in a professional way, showing strong judgement. Highly effective grasp of ideas and communication of visual ideas.”
  • 15/20
  • Very slightly lower than my G&M mark but same text
• Demonstration of Creativity
  • “Strongly creative, takes risks with many imaginative and successful outcomes. Excellent synthesis of analytical and creative thinking. Strong evidence of emerging personal voice.”
  • 18/25
  • Relatively speaking the most improved mark, something I am extremely pleased with – I feel like I’d been really stretching my creative muscles towards the end of Level 2, and it’s very satisfying to see that being recognised
• Context
  • “Very articulate and self aware, very well researched. Demonstrates a developed intellectual understanding and criticality.”
  • 14/20
  • Same text and very slightly lower score than on G&M, and I’m fine with that

Overall comments

I won’t quote these verbatim but will pick out a few phrases that resonated:

• “The consistency and design of submission presentation was impressive and should be commended.”
• “The subjects explored within each assignment were valid and meaningful, being handled with an incisive and often playful gaze.”
  • Incisive and playful – good adjectives; I would be happy to earn a reputation for the combination of these two
• “The final assignment was a unique graphical representation of a serious contemporary debate and again, was playful in its presentation. The success of this submission should be viewed positively in relation to progression onto level 3 of the programme, but be careful of becoming too formulaic in terms of future submissions.”
  • This was the work I was most pleased with (and it took the longest by far to complete) so I’m very happy with this feedback
  • Playful comes up again, and again I like that this is potentially coming through as part of my personal voice
  • I am slightly puzzled by the advice to avoid becoming too formulaic as I felt that overall the assignments were quite an eclectic set, and A5 in particular was visually very distinctive – and so don’t consider my output to have been formulaic (if it means for the future, then fine – I’m not planning on using the pie chart construct again any time soon…)

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Right, I am officially over two-thirds of the way through the degree! I’m only a couple of assignments into Level 3 though, so wish me luck…

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