Context 2, Assignment 2

Title: Portfolio

Task:

Produce a portfolio that showcases your development as a multimedia practitioner. It is expected that you will use work produced for your Multimedia Pathway, and any external multimedia work you may have done or be doing, to frame the demonstration of your development. Your p ortfolio should contain finished pieces but should also show work in progress and your design development process.

Background:

It is a very good idea to obtain work placement experience during your degree. Ideally you should send copies of your finished portfolio to the organisations and practitioners you identified in Assignment One. Whilst obtaining a placement isn’t part of the assignment submission, the assignment is designed to help you do something that you should be personally considering anyway.

Aims:

You should seek to both demonstrate your specific pathway skills, technique and understanding and to contextualise your personal development in regards to your current or desired position in the multimedia industry. This should be through the inclusion of appropriate work.

Take a look at the Useful Links section in the Learning Room for this module for advice on how you might construct your portfolio.

Portfolio document format:

- Title splash page
- Finalised work section
- Work-In-Progress section
- Design Development Process section
- Contact Me section (On-line CVs should not contain your date of birth, place of birth, marital status, address or phone number as they can enable identity theft. A professional email address is the best way to allow employers to contact you initially, as a multimedia practitioner you should be considering a domain name purchase.)

The following link provides some advice on portfolio considerations.

http://www.kent.ac.uk/careers/cv/portfolios.htm.

Submission Deadline:
Date: 16/02/12


Relevant learning outcomes for this assignment are:

- Apply knowledge of the critical and contextual dimensions of your Multimedia practice as it is informed by social, cultural and technical issues
- Produce well structured and appropriately considered work using knowledge of appropriate methods
- Employ understanding of current knowledge and practice to a chosen multimedia discipline
- Critically evaluate and review own work and the work of others

I'M SO FLIPPPPINNNGGGG HAPPY

THAT MY ESSAY IS FINALLY FINISHED.

Context 2

I have spent so much time on my context 2 essay this week & hopefully it's paid off as i'm nearly finished. Going to print it off to give to Shaun to look over tomorrow. May have to kill myself if i've got the wrong end of the stick and wrote about a load of nothing.

Deadline in a week for it so just touch up on Shaun's advice and then I can finally start my voyage project. Have an idea that's sticking out to use for it but need to create wireframes etc as it's only 4 weeks until that deadline.

Halloween

Google is making the context 2 essay slightly better today with the pumpkin video.

Really worried only one company has been in contact, so struggling to write lots about the other companies as I don't know a lot.

one out of the 30 companies I emailed has contacted me.

brilliant

Network Diagram For Context 2 & Stuffffff

Here's my network diagram for my report:

(to be uploaded)

Found my companies I will be using & contacted them. Also have a list of the rejected companies & why I rejected them.

Also done intro & abstract & started to write up about each company.

Context 2

A website I really like the design of:

http://fatburgr.com/

Designed by one of the companies I rejected for the essay.

Contacting Web Design Companies

I have now contacted 25 web design companies in hope I will get a reply from quite a few so I can talk about 2 in my essay & then still have some to talk about for the rejected companies.

There are a few I reallllllly like & really hope they get in contact

it's so cold.

Not Going To Lie..

I'm struggling with the concept of the context 2 assignment.

I've gathered my network involves how I get myself out there in Multimedia.

I don't really have a network apart from a social one i.e twitter/facebook this blog maybe? Are my lecturers part of my network? Where is my network -am I right in thinking this is online, Nottingham, Leicester etc. Map of my network i'm struggling with as I generally don't think I have a network.

Good start to the year.

Context 2 Assignment

Deadline 10th November:

Title:  Company analysis

Task:

You are to research and write a report discussing your place in multimedia in terms of your network and companies that you identify, that can be connected to that network and that you are interested in working with.

Your report should include a diagram of your network identifying contacts that you  already have, both at home and through your university, as well as the new contacts and companies that you discover during the course of the research for this report.

You should analyse how your contacts can help your career and find companies that you might realistically hope to work for. Many multimedia companies are small and rely on local, regular customers, you should aim to find at least one small company or practitioner local to your network, one medium sized company with a more national client base and one larger, possibly international company. Part of your research should involve considering how different sized companies work and you should try to gain an understanding of what constitutes a small, medium or large company. You should make every attempt to contact these companies so that feedback from them can be included in the report.

The report should describe the way in which you found and selected the companies and why as well as some of those that you rejected in your search and your reasons for that rejection.

The report should be more than 2000 words and no more than 3000.

PASSED MY FIRST YEAR

Never ever thought I'd see the day but passed my first year at NTU :)

First Year Over :)

Did my presentation today, went alrighttttt! After many tears & tantrums first year finally over

:) :)

Awhhhhhh Yeh!

I have just finished my visual essay after about 8 hours a day on it this week! think it looks pretty good although I could have done it totally wrong..

Can view it at: http://holliefergusonvisualessay.hostoi.com/HollieFerguson_VisualEssay/visualessayindex.html

screen shots of visual website:

I have also done my presentation which I am doing tomorrow at 16:00 but need to go into uni to make the dvds.

so happy & stress freeeeeeeeeee :)

Last Week Of The First Year..

& I have finished all 3 of my projects - my interactive I feel being the strongest, animation obviously the weakest.

I have finished my assessment presentation & will upload it on here soon!

My visual essay after so much time & research is nearly complete :)

One Week To Go..

until deadline for visual essay & presentation.

Have just uploaded my interactive media & evaluation to the dropbox - also made it live.

My visual essay and presentation are about halfway through, have just got an email saying Waverley is closed for 4 weeks from next week which is brilliant as I was hoping to edit my film & animation.

I am going to try and improve my animation now but my track record with it this plan may not go too well! also if I have time will do my own edit for film Herds.

Also need to make dvds today if Waverley is closed?!

Presentation

I'm presenting my dp2 presentation to Deb - would have prefered Shaun as I am doing the interactive pathway so my strength in the powerpoint would be this & not film but hopefully it'll be a ok :)

I'm doing a powerpoint & it seems pretty easy, 5 slides on each project - the design process of each one & how we think it could be improved, what's good & what's bad etc etc!

I now need to make my portfolio live - will try this tomorrow.
Finish visual essay & make this live.

Improve my ainamtion & film a little if time & finish presentation.

Quick Update

.. After another 2 weeks off.

I currently have 2 weeks left of interactive media & have no problem with the deadline as I am well underway with my online portfolio & really enjoying this part of the module.

I have started my visual essay & although I may not be doing it 100% correct I am pretty sure i'm on the right track and will finish it in plenty of time for the deadline - 27th May.

I need to start my end of term presentation which hopefully shouldn't take too long as I know what I am doing as I have already done one - saying this I do need to start asking peers for feedback & improving my animation which I keep putting off as I am dreading it!

Finally Started..

making my visual essay! :) I am using the same layout as my online portfolio with different colour theme & content.

Know I will finish before the deadline but a little worried that content of the essay may be wrong..

Visual Essay So Far..

I am struggling a little with this, I have a vague idea of what it should contain. I know my layout for my essay will be in web design, I have my 3 practitoners but am struggling to know what to include in it. I have no problem writing about it as in who I am using and why I am using them but expected to use at least 50 images and 3 videos & I don't really know how I am going to do this :(

Visual Essay

Now I have started the interative project I can recap on html etc & get started on my visual essay! :)

I pretty much know the content of what my essay will have I just need to actually now make a website for it!

:)