For my last homework task before starting on my book project, i had to make a map. I could challenge myself to create this map in any way i wanted to, and it could be of any place; i chose to do a map of my walk between my house and Brixton, as it’s a route i walk often so i thought it would be suitable.

I had a lot of ideas for this map, which was an advantage at fisrt but it went south eventually. At first i was planning to tke pictures of significant areas, write down what i felt sbout them and create digital drawings of them once i got home, but once i finished doing this, i really did’nt like the end result. I still had the pictures i took, so i decided to draw pictures from them, and my plan was to somehow connect these pictures; however i ran out of time, and i only ended up with 3 seperate drawings.

I think i could’ve avoided having such little work if i had managed my time a little better and changed what i didn’t like about the first piece rather than starting again; in the future, i’ll only look at completely abandoning an idea as a last resort. But nonetheless, our follow up task was to create a video with sound using the maps we had created.

Because i only had 3 drawings, i needed to think of a way to use them in a video without the video being too short. I ended up doing a stop motion piece, using my map as backdrops; i went a little off task by to focusing on the map a lot, but i wanted to make something fun to watch that could make people smile.

Overall i enjoyed this task although it was a little difficult. I think it taught me a lot about managing my time appropriately and the consequences of not doing enough work; it makes future stages and progression harder even if it’s able to pass assessment. In the future i’ll work hard to produce well thought out work, and enough of it.