Last presentation reflection

(1) Positive Statement

What are you most proud of in your block presentation and/or your senior project? Why?
Considering that the project required a mentor, I'm most proud of how much I learned from my mentorship itself. I'm happy that I received the help that I did.

(2) Questions to Consider

a.     What assessment would you give yourself on your block presentation?  Use the component contract to defend that assessment.
    P: My information was pretty straight forward to understand from an audience point of view. I believe that activities were relatively similar to both my answer, communication and target audience. 

b.     What assessment would you give yourself on your overall senior project? Use the component contract to defend that assessment.

  P: I did what was asked of me and I even went to my mentorship on my own time regardless of this project. Its something, I've enjoyed since my freshman year.

(3) What worked for you in your senior project?

Everything worked for me in this project, I didn't come across any problem that could not be solved in more than five minutes.

(4) (What didn't work) If you had a time machine, what would you have done differently to improve your senior project?

Everything worked well for this project. The only slight problem was figuring out a good time for both my mentor and I because of his travels.

(5) Finding Value

How has the senior project been helpful to you in your future endeavors?   Be specific and use examples.

This senior project has helped me understand whether I really wanted to do this and If it's something I really like. It was a big realization for myself. While working with my mentor, he always made it clear that there is more to what job he just does for a living. There are so many different jobs in this industry that it's hard to specifically choose his job when I haven't even experienced the other jobs in this industry.

Exit Interview

(1) What is your essential question, and what are your answers?  What is your best answer and why?
-My essential question is "how can a graphic designer successfully market a marketing campaign?".My best answer is  Target Audience. Every employer that is a part of a business knows what audience to target and how they can do so. This allows for the business to make its most business from that specific pool that is targeted from the keyart artist. I know communication and finding that common ground is very important between the client, but  knowing what audience to target your product before hand is crucial. The communication between a keyartist and the client is the stage the ideas and art come from.
(2) What process did you take to arrive at this answer?
-I arrived to this answer by constantly working with mentor. He has worked on big and exclusive projects with well known company's. Since working with him, he could not stress that him as the keyart artist, knows what age group the project itself is for,

(3) What problems did you face?  How did you resolve them?
-I've come across problems such as getting stuck and not being able to move from the design that I worked on under my mentor. I came across this problem because I didn't ask questions and didn't read the style guide like every keyartist  should do thoroughly. This allowed me to learn hands on what my mentor was talking about. I also encountered a problem with meeting my mentor. He constantly is traveling for the projects he is given,

Independent Component 2

LITERAL
(a) Include this statement: “I,  Raelene Caldero, affirm that I completed my independent component which represents 40 hours of work.”
(b) My source was ONLY and strictly my mentor. His contact information will be provided below.
Daniel Nakama
OnDesign Creation
(c) Update your Independent Component 2 Log (which should be under your Senior Project Hours link)
(d) Explain what you completed.   
I completed the board game for Rivas given project. I worked everything out so I could do the board. I helped coordinate how the game works and the completion of it.  
(e) Defend your work and explain the component's significance and how it demonstrates 30 hours of work.
   Provide evidence (photos, transcript, art work, videos, etc) of the 30 hours of work.   
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B7ix15Enq9b6U2hlUWpfZjBoRHdndzc5U1FJNkRiMkxWcGFJ/view
(f)How did the component help you answer your EQ? Please include specific examples to illustrate how it helped. 
It helped me demonstrate my skills that I learned throughout the year with mentor. He did guide through it still and helped me with the printing process as well as making it look professional.

Interview

 Voice 001 48000 1_02.mp3

Answer 2

1.  What is your EQ?
-how can a graphic designer successfully market a marketing campaign? 
2.  What is your first answer? (In complete thesis statement format)
-My first answer is, communication. Communication because everyone is required to explain thoroughly why needs to be done and what image the key art artist have to meet.
3.  What is your second answer? (In complete thesis statement format)
My second answer is,  Style guides and Lookbooks. These two are the main elements to marketing for film and apparel.
4.  List three reasons your answer is true with a real-world application for each.
-key art artist
-consumers
-marketing
5.  What printed source best supports your answer?
-I have several printed style guides/lookbooks that show how crucial it is to have them when putting together a project for a film or apparel store.
6.  What other source supports your answer?
-The standeez also support my answer because they show how people are drawn to them. They give people an effect of what the product it is they're offering based on how well the standee was done
7.  Tie this together with a  concluding thought.
-All my answers have a lot to do with the process before any project is done not so much the effect.

Independent Component 2 Approval

1.  Describe in detail what you plan to do for your 30 hours.
-For the 30 hours, I plan on working on projects for film. In doing this, it will take the making of standeez and posters. In order to do this it takes a lot of planning with style guides by the film production company's. 


2.  Discuss how or what you will do to meet the expectation of showing 30 hours of evidence.
-I will show the finishing products of what I've done over the course of the 30 hours i did while working with my mentor at his office in hollywood and his home in Chino Hills. 


3.  Explain how this component will help you explore your topic in more depth.
-This will help me gain hands-on-experience throughout the process of completing the projects. I will also learn technical terms that are also used in this industry. 


4.  Post a log in your Senior Project Hours link and label it "Independent Component 2" log.
-https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1-TXtxLekP4rsF_z75KSe0y7e4QJ39CTondGWgk3QumE/edit#gid=0

Independent Component 1

LITERAL
(a) Write: “I, raelene, affirm that I completed my independent component which represents 30 hours of work.”
(b) Cite your source regarding who or what article or book helped you complete the independent component.
-The Style guide was given to me by my mentor and not for public use therefore MLA format could not be applied. I have several style guides and lookbooks.
(c) Update your hours in your Senior Project Hours link. Make sure it is clearly labeled with hours for individual sessions as well as total hours.(d) Explain what you completed.    INTERPRETIVE
Defend your work and explain its significance to your project and how it demonstrates 30 hours of work.   Provide evidence (photos, transcript, art work, videos, etc) of the 30 hours of work.  APPLIED

How did the component help you understand the foundation of your topic better?  Please include specific examples to illustrate this
- Generally was my mentor right hand for projects. We talked through most of the projects and executed them together. He thoroughly explained what we were doing and why. We did graphic design and standeez for movies that I cannot disclose do to an agreement.