Tuesday, October 4th is your Anatomy Online Greenlight Review.
The OGR is an important deadline. Use it to plan your time and manage your workload. More importantly, the OGR is your opportunity to 'pitch' your ideas to me and introduce your creative approach to the unit. Use the OGR to seek reassurance, resolution, and alternate points-of-view. Use the OGR to ensure the remaining weeks of Unit 1 can be used productively and your workload undertaken with confidence. Use the OGR wisely - prepare for it, invest in it, and it will save you time and ensure against silly mistakes, misunderstandings and misreadings of the brief. Ideally, you want your OGR to excite and convince me. You want a 'green light'.
Your OGR is presented as a single Scribd presentation on your blog, with your name, date, and unit title. If you are unfamiliar with using Scribd to present and embed documents/presentations, go here for some easy-to-follow instructions.
"What do I need to present?"
Your OGR presentation should summarise the development of your creative project so far, with the practical purpose of clarifying (for me and you) your final idea/ideas, and your supporting methodology (i.e., the way you're going to do it and why).
I don't need to see everything you've produced or blogged in the first two weeks of the unit (chances are I've seen a lot of it already). Your OGR should seek to make me understand 'how' you've arrived at your design ideas and why. If you've produced 100 thumbnails, the OGR should include those that proved significant in the ongoing development of your portrait. However, if you abandoned an approach because it wasn't working, the abandoned design should be included in the OGR if abandoning it helped you identify another approach or a problem with your methodology you are seeking to address.
Your OGR must include the introduction to your proposed written assignment for Unit 1, and your introduction should satisfy the required criteria, e.g. "A clear introduction to your
investigation ... should mention the different published sources you have
used and your reasons for choosing them."
Please refer to the Rough Guide to Written Assignments - available on myUCA/Anatomy/Unit Materials - for more really helpful advice on academic writing at undergraduate level. The 'Rough Guide' also contains an example 'Unit 1' essay, which will give you a clear idea of what I'll be looking for from CGAA first years in terms of structure, tone and presentation. You can find more advice on the group blog simply by clicking the 'written assignment' and 'academic writing' labels.
In addition, your OGR should seek to evidence that you are up-to-date with your life-drawing, weekly film reviews, and technical exercises etc. Your OGR might include links to the corresponding posts and/or images. Historically, students that use the OGR to manage their weekly tasks in this way manage their workloads more successfully.
To view an example OGR presentation go here.
Tutorial feedback on your OGR will arrive in the form of written comments on the OGR blogpost you created. Your written feedback may take between 1 and 3 days to materialise, but materialise it will! While there is no formal assessment value placed on the OGR, I can only respond to what is made available to me at time of the review. The more organised and focused you are at this stage in the unit, the more genuinely useful I can be to you.
I very much look forward to seeing your progress on October 4th.
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