Failure Paper

I think I had a few failures this semester, mainly the last couple projects.  First is MP4.  I think I could have put a significant amount of more effort into the project.  I should not have used an old recording of my friends and I singing.  I think if I had put more time into the project I could have made a much more creative and interesting piece.  I was not as enthusiastic about iMovie and Garageband as I was about photoshop.  My second biggest failure was MP5.  I did not read the directions, therefore I created something irrelevant.  Another failure was the pictures we took at the beginning of the semester.  If I had put more time into it, I could have taken better pictures.

            For most of these failures, I learned that if I am more enthusiastic about the medium used or what the assignment is I put more effort and time into it.  I think I feel this way because this class is not a graduation requirement for me, and I took it solely for the photoshop practice.  Also, since it is not a graduation requirement I know I put the other projects on the backburner for various reasons (mainly lack of time between my other design classes, I work for a start up fashion line, senioritis—I’m graduating Dec. 16th, and the never ending semester by week 11 I was ready to be done with class).  As a fashion major, I think that having that skill is extremely important.  I use photoshop and Illustrator all the time at work now.

            I think my two biggest successes were the two photoshop projects.  I thoroughly enjoyed those two projects and the creative process that went with it.  I learned so many new tools for Photoshop. 

            If I could redo a project it would either be the Garageband project or the last project.