Positive Peer Assessment...

Peer Assessment, something that most people dread! However, today's assessment was quite enlightening - in a good way! It enabled us to pinpoint our weaknesses and where we could improve with our project and such as well as a boost to the morale of things that we had been doing to a good standard according to the criteria.

My peers gave me an overall grade of a B-, which I was pleased with considering I was thinking the worst! It was really helpful to see where I needed to concentrate my work more to get the best i could. My peers suggested I analyse their work (Lauren and Katrina's posters and Tv adverts) in my blog to meet the criteria more, which states that the person is able to analyse their own work and the work of others. I feel that i am comfortable in analysing my own work, but it is true in that i haven't looked analysed the work of the others in my group. This is something i can easily work on and change however (as you will see in a later blog!). Furthermore, they suggested possibly having more research on Spam packaging of the past, as this was my part of the project - to redesign the packaging - so it could be put into context more easily. 

My peers said that my generation of ideas was good, which i was pleased to hear, as it isn't always easy trying to redesign a product that has been the same for so many years! I had done sketches and then picked the best one of the three to use as my final packaging idea. They seemed to like my ideas that i had come up with (earlier blog post). 

We also did a self assessment of our work... something that is easier said than done! I gave myself a C- overall, as i felt this was true to the criteria for me. I realised the points i needed to work on in order to make my project the best it can be, such as having more contextual research and using more materials. Having something to assess your work on makes it so much easier to see what you need to do in order to get the best out of what you are doing - It really helped! 

Overall, I need...

• More Research!
• Analysis of other's work
• Possibly the use of more Media (this was something i decided myself when looking at the criteria)

I also intend to add more into the project about our concept. We are aiming Spam at children and i feel i need to look into this market more and about the past of Spam in order to make the most of the concept. 

I feel more comfortable knowing what i have to do now in my project and i feel this is something that i can easily achieve. All that's left now is to keep working on our presentation to be delivered in January... here's hoping all runs smoothly!

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