RESPONSIVE SUPPORT GROUP

First peer review for Responsive:

We got to choose our own groups (maybe not the best choice, since we're already friends and won't want to dishearten/offend/criticise HONESTLY?)

Working with Megan Swan, Polly and Alicja.

Initial discussion as to HOW MUCH WORK IS ENOUGH WORK.

Hard to establish which briefs are substantial and which are smaller briefs.

Swan has chosen to do ALL THREE PENGUIN BRIEFS. Sound rationale for why she wants to do these; interested in book design, has enjoyed book cover projects before, enjoys reading. She has therefore decided to spend a lot of time with these briefs. The Penguin briefs could be individual, shorter, smaller briefs, but Swan is putting in what she wants to get out of them so I think this is the right path for her. She wants them to be substantial projects so she is spending a substantial amount of time on them.

Variation - Swan's wondering whether she needs to do a few smaller, different briefs so that she has a wider variety for the MODULE submission. Maybe Illustration Friday - some little briefs that can be done when she has a spare few hours - but her focus is on PENGUIN.

Swan's timetabling is really structured and planned! I need to do this! Allocated four weeks for each brief, including time for research, concept development, thumbnails, roughing, reviewing, refining, printing and submitting her work.

Polly's practice is more design-centred, so she has chosen a D&AD brief, HASBRO Games design.

She thought that we had to pick at least 5 briefs, so had taken on a lot more work than she needed to, because she thought she had to in order to pass the module.

We helped Polly to narrow down her choices. The D&AD brief was going to be a lot of work, especially since Polly isn't collaborating for this big task and she wants to take it all the way to production (the brief doesn't say that it needs to be made, just designed), so she has decided that she needs to pick smaller briefs instead of more BIG ones.

A question of PASSION: she picked the Greetings Card design brief because this is something she's passionate about and FAMILIAR with. Although she wants to do more character design and narrative illustration, we came to the conclusion that the Roald Dahl brief might be too much work to take on alongside the HASBRO brief.

Alicja was struggling to choose which of the briefs she wanted to do. She was yet to find any briefs that she were suited to her practice. After listening to my ideas for the Roald Dahl brief, Alicja thought this might be something she could work on.

She wasn't familiar with the author but I know that it's right up her street. REQUIRES RESEARCH.

My main dedication is the ROALD DAHL brief, which I will be spending a lot of time on -starting now and working up to the week before the deadline. A project I know I will enjoy and I know that I work well with LONG PROJECTS.
I want to do some little briefs too. I'd already looked at the Art Doll Quarterly magazine submissions, but after seeing others in the room with little briefs already completed, I've decided that I need to find even more little briefs to keep me busy and enter into a variety of different briefs.

TIMETABLING
GET IT DONE, STELLY.