What went well:
I think the general idea generation stage of this brief was the best part of it for me, as it made me realise I am very passionate about Angela Carter and her work. I found it very easy to select ideas about her and The Bloody Chamber to translate into my editorial roughs, and almost more difficult to decide on which roughs to take forward because I like something about them all!
This brief also got me excited to do more editorial work because sometimes I really enjoy working within parameters such as size and colour limits, especially if its just for a quick project as I find it limits the time I take to make decisions. I also think I'm developing a stronger visual style which works to my advantage in briefs like this because it means that all three pieces look coherent.
What went wrong:
One issue I had during this project was time management, which usually isn't something that I find difficult but I think being that it was one of the first practical tasks we were set after summer, I forgot how to pace myself. I went all out at the beginning getting really into the roughs and making lots of work, but then when I'd chosen my final three ideas I lost momentum and didn't experiment or play as much as I could have. I felt I already wanted to work with ink because I'd been enjoying using that in my personal work but I should have trialled it out more in my book as now I can see that the images might have looked good as a collage.
What I'll improve on next time:
Next time I'll obviously manage my time better, but I also want to try and push the limits of the frame more and be a bit more playful with it. The way my brain works tends to mean that I go for more simple compositions as I personally find those more easy to understand, but the portrait image of Carter herself is maybe my favourite and it has the most sparse composition. Its really out of my nature to go for something so simplistic as well but I really liked the ambiguity of it and would like to make more work like this in the future because I think it looks the most evocative.
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