OUAN502 - Creative Strategies Presentation

The creative strategies presentation was a reflection on our year as a whole, what we have learnt and how we have changed as well as out plans for next year. I sort of broke my presentation down into an imaginary 'beginning, middle and end' discussing how I felt during the start of the year and how my interests developed before moving onto my ideas and aims for third year. I made sure to mention my interest in film because I believe that has what has fuelled my year on the whole, and the things I've been able to learn about editing, cinematography and film making in general have inspired me and improved my work dramatically. I didn't really talk about any specific modules but rather mentioned them briefly when talking about collaboration or a certain technique that was explored during the module. I didn't talk about any specific work either, but did use some of my stronger pieces to add visual interest to slides and tie into what I was talking about in some way, for example when talking about collaboration I showed work from the collaborative modules.

The largest portion of my presentation was spent talking about my current interests and working methods, and also my current aims between now and third year. I spoke about my diverse interest because of the amount of different media we have been exposed to through different modules and the link this has to transmedia storytelling. I mentioned that one of my aims for next year was to get in contact with industry more and hopefully make some contacts within the industry - as this is something I am yet to do. I seem to spend a lot of time researching on the internet with general topics as oppose to contacting people directly to find out from professional and indviduals who can give me good advice from their own experiences, so this is something I need to do. During the feeback portion at the end of the presentation Mike agreed that I needed to look into industry more and not to wait, but rather to do it as soon as possible. He also mentioned transmedia storytelling and spoke again about how it is becoming more and more relevant in the industry with companies actually comissioning transmedia projects with an aim of having a story told across multiple platforms. This gave me confidence in my research area and made me realise the importance of industry as a tool whilst making sure to make the most of it.