Well, the results are in from the July assessment event and I have passed. The overall mark was 51%, however, I found this unit a struggle it was a long way out of my comfort zone and I think that was evident in the quality of my work.

The overall comments from the assessors are:

“You have good ideas for your projects. The implementation of your ideas, however, is often lost in translation. Your visual interpretations are either too literal or too vague for your audience. A lot of the visual work seems to rely too heavily on the supporting material rather than communicate meaning clearly as a stand-alone entity. Consider your work as an exhibit and try to envision and anticipate the viewer and their perceptions of the subject matter as you often use your very personal perspective which excludes the audience on the basis of knowledge and understanding. Your reworking of assignments invariably results in a better outcome. Your research is interesting but not explicitly evident in your work; try to embed your visual and theoretical research into your practice.”

I’m not upset by these comments, yes my mark is down on my initial 2 units, but these comments are fair and I will take them on board as I always have with any feedback I have received. It is encouraging that they can see improvement within my reworked assignment, I just need to be better and implementing my idea first time rather and after tutor feedback – I guess a rework should be more a fine-tuning than a complete back to the drawing board

Finally, I’ll add a big thank you to my tutor Robert Enoch who without his fantastic feedback I would have thrown in the towel after assignment 2.

514508 Peter Walker PH4CAN Marksheet

As with previous courses, I am taking full advantage of the categorising and filtering offered by my self-hosted WordPress site.

Whilst I am wording through the course there will be menu access to both my previous courses to let my tutor have a look at my previous work and also for fellow students if they so desire to have a look in support of there own studies. One assessment time comes around menu will be restricted to just context and narrative so as not to course issues with assessment (and the assessors).

Wish me look I think I’ll need it.