RELIABILITY

Reliability and sourcing external help is a major issue that I seem to come across on an almost daily basis. Despite posting on the university Facebook pages asking for assistance with photography, makeup and hair a week in advance, I can’t seem to find individuals that wish to help.  Within this last semester of the academic year, everyone that I approach seems to be extremely busy or unavailable to shoot whenever I have studio time booked. The importance of having a small reliable team to work alongside has been made apparent to me throughout this project. Luckily I have a few friends who specialise in makeup, photography, or are willing to engage and learn new skills to help me throughout the production of my conceptual ideas. This has been a vital part of keeping my morale high throughout the disappointment of cancellations and let down of others as I have always had these few individuals to fall back on and ask for help when I was in desperate need.

Throughout my three years at university I have networked with others, however I have found that the connections I have made could indeed have been strengthened to ensure that I have loyal and reliable links to others. This would have made collaborating a lot easier within the last few months and sped the production process up a lot quicker, but I am not going to dwell on this as it has proved to be another learning curve that can be applied within the future. By maintaining the strong links to contacts I have already made and improving the relationships with others I can continue to grow my network.

This issue has also allowed me to take the edification of my own skill sets into my own hands, learning to improve my confidence within a wide range of subject knowledges and practice fields to completely personalise the outcomes of my projects.

Since changing the focus to a subjective viewpoint I have become reliant on myself and my ideas which has been shown through the willingness to learn and improve:

Retouching

Editing

Distortion within photoshop

Location photography

Studio set up

Studio photography

Make-up techniques

I am beginning to feel efficient within a broad range of IT programs and creative situations that I will be able to use as transferable skills throughout the rest of this project duration in the production of my ideas and also carry them through my career where I can then build on them further.