Evaluation

                        PCA 100 WBL Evaluation                 Alice Barnard

Work-based Learning is a completely new experience for me as it is the first kind of professional module, which has been guiding me into researching the specific area of photography that I have currently chosen as a future career.  At the beginning I admit I was not interested in this module at all as it just seemed irrelevant as I thought I had come to this college to learn more about Photography as a possible career choice and to gain more knowledge on equipment and techniques. Obviously know though, I do realise that WBL is I great deal and should not be taken lightly. I have learnt from this because as always I left quite a lot of the work until last minute and even though I say to myself each time I am given a new project brief I will start it straight away, I never actually do. And this frustrates me.

However I will change my ways from now on as each time I end up under way too much stress that makes me ill, and especially with 3 other projects on at the same time. This makes my brain overload and I am unable to cope with such a vast amount of work. 

This research has made me realise a lot that I didn’t know about myself as well as gaining a substantial amount of knowledge on the subject area I have chosen to pursue for my future career. I am now certainly a lot more confidant in how my life will turn out and that I can get to where I want to be as long as I keep working at it. So I shall now be consistent in my research work so I do not manage to fall behind or to lose track and lose confidence. I will not give up and I shall be motivated to get somewhere. I believe the way forward is to get into some kind of work experience or internship which is what I hope to achieve this summer back home, through a local photographer who shall be photographing my friends wedding. I have also had work back home with ‘Jersey Events’ which is in my C.V. It is a local company that photographs a variety of events and I mostly contribute work for the magazine ‘Jersey Weekly’ with my photographs of Motorsport, Fashion and outdoor events.

At the beginning I was defiantly not sure on Blogs, I hated them as a matter of fact and couldn’t stand the thought of writing new posts everyday about my life and what I am doing because I just didn’t think anybody would want to know about it. However, after actually getting a decent amount of posts up, I now believe otherwise and I thoroughly enjoy posting up on my blog. So I am sure to keep it up and regularly too, not just every other week.

After researching the National Geographic and BBC Wildlife magazine I cannot wait to just be out in the world doing my own thing and photographing what I want to do and what I enjoy doing. I know that this will only come with a lot more hard work and practise, which I also hope to gain through various internships or work experience. My mind is constantly changing and I can never keep track of where I want to be next but recently after joining PCA and enrolling on this Photography course, I know that this is definitely what I would like to pursue a future career in, and I will get there as long as I stay focused and produce work to the highest quality I am capable of.