Overall review of Hair and Make up Design, Sept - now

I have thoroughly enjoyed the course so far, and I definitley feel ike I have learnt alot! Not going to lie it has been hard work at times and very stressful for some units wih the workload and the stress of practical assessments, but definitley worth it. I am 100% sure I made the right choice in coming to University to do this course. Not only for the skills and knowledge I am learning/going to learn but for the experience. I have found Group 1 (the group I am in for lessons) to be lovely people and I think as a group we are very supportive of each other. There has been a great deal of different techniques to learn in our practical sessions in both subjects and although I have been taking notes I think I need to adapt my style of writting and improve my organization, for example using a different notepad for each practical session, to avoid confusion and be able to record information in a more structured manor, simply to make life easier for myself when writting up tech files. Something that has suprised me is how much I have enjoyed our theory lessons, I have found the historical element extremely interesting not only this but the theory lessons have sparked an interest in writting which I did not predict on starting the course, when I thought the practical lessons would be my favourite.
Some of the practical skills I have found the hardest to grasp have included contouring and shading. I greatly underestimated the skill it takes to be able to contour correctly in order to give the appearance of either changing the shape of certain features or drawing attention to certain features and creating shadow. Although I have improved somewhat since september (where my shading looked patchy or like nasty bruises) I still think this is something I need to practice a lot util I can say I am good at it.
Digital imaging production has ben intersting, however the I feel the workload has been very heavy connsidering it contributes a smaller percentage to our grading. This being said there have been parts of the subject I have enjoyed. Photography was very interesting to learn and I feel I have learnt quite alot regarding fashion styling for example the difference subtle things like, colour, props, poses and facial expressions can make in the eyes of someone viewing an image which I didnt really think about before.
I feel the timed assessments went quite well although I have identified areas in both subjects where there is room for improvement. I think Anna and I made a good team as we were both very focused and willing to practice. I also felt we communicated well with each other.
Overall I feel the first semester has been a success (well... I hope so when I find out my grades!) and I am very much looking forwad to comng back after Christmas.

More pics of Annas and My assessents

 

Heres are some more Pictures of My design by Anna

 

 

More pictures of Annas design by me

Annas assessment of my design on me

I was really pleased with the outcome of Annas practical assessment on me. I think she worked realy hard to get the design as accurate as possible and I think the end result was good. Ana completed the design on time and the lines were very neat. Although the face appears to be all white in the picture above the base was infact skin coloured tand the white around the eyes blended in very well to give a misty cloudy effect which I wanted. Anna did have a littletrouble hiding my eyebrows but the fact that she was runing low on supra colour in white did not help other than that I think Anna did an excellent job and I was very pleased.

Feedback for blog

Ive fainally been able to log into my university email without any problems so can now reflect on my work so far and the fedback I was given regarding my blog. As Sharon said at the time I did need to make more references to Elizabethan style/make-up/fashion. I agree I did need o do this and added a post after this feedback about the Elizabethan fashion styling in the Film Elizabeth the golden age and how the outfits and colours they were wearing would have had  meaning in Elizabethan times do to the cost of dyes and the associations of wearing particular colours.
Sharon also mentioned that she would like to see me draw more so befre altering my face chart for my final design I sketched and coloured some pictures of what my design would look like from a side view on a little cartoon like pesron rather than just drawing another face chart.
I have tried to refence my last few blogs as I had previously not been doing it correctly using the Harvard method. Sharon said to me not to wory about going back and rferencing the whole blog as I did list websites I had taken information from, but to Harvard reference any of my future work. I have attempted this with the last couple of posts that required referencing and I found this VERY confusing so is something I definitley need to work on in future. I was rather pleased with my overall feedback as I wasnt sure If I had just been writting a load of rubbish for the past weeks so definitley cheered me up :)