Summative evaluation

Dear John,
I have frequently viewed this module as something I have to do over the three years and not something that I've enjoyed or felt was necessary. However looking back, particularly over last year and the this year, I can see how it was necessary for me and allowed me to slowly absorb the more professional side without just being told what to do when we leave.

Through this module I have branding, promotional material and an online presence that I can be happy to show to professionals. Without it I wouldn't have any idea of how to make these thing to a professional standard and they would have ended up being an after thought.

As well as this I also applied for and got a placement at Hallmark. This would have never happened otherwise as if I hadn't had to contact people, I wouldn't have wanted to bother my friend about it. At Hallmark I really learnt that I could actually do this as a job, I loved just sitting and working on my illustrations as a task in an office, it was strangely exciting. I also learnt that while I think of myself as the awkward teenager that I used to be who could barely talk to most people, I'm actually fine around people. That I actually like meeting new people and that most likely everyone will be lovely and will want to help. This was really important for me as I persuade myself out of doing things that put me in situations that I can't control, it showed me that it can all be ok.

 While I didn't really get many replies from contacting people, I did gain the confidence to do it. I've learnt that the worst thing they will do is ignore you and I can easily live with that and try to persuade them to pay attention to me.

I'd like it if this module actually got a little more focus as I really enjoyed making work for fun and for exhibitions but I hardly ever had time with my other briefs going on. This is what I miss about visual narrative (Matt's class) in first year, you were reminded every week that illustration can be fun as well as work. I think PPP could also do this if it was given more time.

I should have spent more time on PPP over the year but I got a bit caught up with feeling bad and stressed for a long time so I ignored it. I knew this was likely to happen from the start though so I started out strong and was able to get on top of it a little bit.