Part 3 was definitely a challenge for me as I struggled to understand the subject. Visual communications aren’t necessarily hard to come to terms with because its literally communicating visually. Its when I start to break down an image and look into the deeper meanings, that’s when I found it difficult. I really enjoyed doing the knitting patterns exercise as my nan loves to knit so I got her involved in it with me. She told me everything she knows because I believe she has done it for many years now.
Semiotics was quite difficult for me at first because I couldn’t understand the sign = signifier + signified. I think that because I struggled with this exercise, it put me behind on the other work. It took me a while to figure out but once I got there, it was alright but I just hope I understood it correctly. I also really enjoyed doing the film posters as I am familiar with analysing the details. For GCSE Media, one of our projects was all about analysing film posters and then designing our own poster. I chose to analyse my favourite film ‘Snatch’ because I’ve seen that film more times than I can remember so it was fun to dig deeper.
When I finally got to the assignment, I knew that I wouldn’t be able to complete it in such short time as I was already behind so I got an extension but I think it actually helped more because I completed it better than the others. That’s my opinion anyway. Again, I struggled at first but I came to terms with it pretty quickly. I chose to focus on the Mona Lisa painting and the re-appropriated version of her in Andy Warhol’s piece ‘Thirty Are Better Than One’. Mona Lisa was another piece of art that was first introduced to me in school in GCSE and A-level Art so it was exciting to discuss it again.
Overall, this Part of my course was challenging but I have definitely learnt from it and I will probably consider it more in the future.
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A Journey Through a Creative Arts Degree 