Week 7 - Formative Assessment

We had our formative assessments given back to us today, this shows how well I am doing within the set project, focusing on 'collections.' The formative assessment shown below is from my tutor leading the project.

I am happy with how my progress has gone in the project unfortunately I was marked down because I didn't show a certain part of the progress that was essential. It was about where I got the lace idea from, and as my blog is part of the progress in my project, I had one of the posts marked as a draft and not published. Hence the reason I was marked down. I also didn't show as much experimental creativity as I should've.

To improve this and my grade, I will make sure things are posted to the standard they need to be and that I have a wide range of art materials in future.

As well as getting formative assessment from tutors, we also had formative assessment from peers within our class, each of us doing 4-5 for different peers. We were asked to mark each other and give an estimate on where our grades are at the moment. Including comments on what needed to be improved and the requirements met.

The feedback I got was from different peers that wrote about the improvements I need to make and the requirements met for the brief.

Here is the first feedback I got...

The requirements that were met;
-have a good amount of research and analysis
-idea has been picked apart and self critiqued
-has considered who is target audience 
-explained reasons behind ideas
-has annotate samples showing what worked well and what didn't (shows development)

The improvements to be made were;
-a lot of samples, could be more experimental with medias

The second peer feedback I got was...
Good amount of experimenting and interesting approach to your choker collection. I think the lace could be really successful - maybe try digitally manipulating lace to get around/over your images. Great experimentation with colours - maybe try different mediums, e.g.. acrylic, pastels, chalk, etc.

Thirdly...
1. Researched artists who collect
Consideration of target audience-documented and thought through
Lots of development work-gives your work context and helps see how your outcomes have been aimed at
2. You may have done this on your blog (which I did) but a bit more commentary on what you feel was effective and less effective in your work flow
3. Strong adherence to your concept throughout and good evidence of experimentation.

I am pleased with the feedback I got from my peers, it encourages me to be more experimental so with this I will challenge myself by using digital art and creating my final piece using that media. For future reference I will make sure to do more with my designs and have thorough annotation.