The Real Evaluation

As another module comes to an end, I find myself hoarded a large sum of visual materials and thoughts (over 8GB!) which I should have uploaded a long time ago. This on-going process of blogging starts to make sense! If I uploaded research/references I came across throughout this module of projects I would not have ended up filling my poor hard drive and made it easier for myself when it came to categories my research.*duh*
this says alot about my organisation skills, as I lost 5% on this module already due to varies reasons but mainly time management issues. I feel more clear minded today to evaluate myself than yesterday when I was doing my actual evaluation.

To be honest, I did not feel i grasped this module as well as the last one, though I do believe I know what was expected from the briefs. the feeling of always one step too late has came up a few times through this module, often I find myself thinking 'I should've done that...' this has caused me dearly when as the projects progressed on, I feel crippled by the lack of quality/focused research, which limited the potential of my ideas and final outcome.
This has made me realise the importances of research, it's not just a simple process of gathering information on a given subject, it has to be focused, organised, and carried out with clear intentions, otherwise you will end up confused, and lost in front of a huge quantity of information not knowing what to do with them and ask how you ended up in that situation.
this brings up another important element of research, categorisation. sorting out research is just as important as gathering information, keeping various materials organised helps the selection process of sorting relevant and irrelevant information.
My problem seems to be getting carried away with research and lack of focus, I really should start making action plans and make early decisions of what I'm hoping to achieve by doing whatever.
I got distracted with after effects and trying to learn the program over night- which was a bad idea! it's a wonderful piece of software and now looking back it was like using photoshop for the first time, the wonders of special effects has lured me to the dark side and my message and idea was lost. I vowed not to become a mac monkey before starting this degree, then i find myself sitting in front of a mac most of the time...scary thoughts