ANNOTATING SUCCINCTLY
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Annotations are comments, notes, or explanations that help you and others understand your ideas and thoughts. You should annotate or make notes on all aspects of your work.
The key to writing to annotations is CLARITY and PRECISION.
Say what it is you want to say, and that's it.
We annotate to:
The work of others
The key to writing to annotations is CLARITY and PRECISION.
Say what it is you want to say, and that's it.
We annotate to:
- Observe
- Pause
- Record
- Reflect
The work of others
- Any factual information regarding the artist/designer/craftsperson.
- What is the work about?
- Why is it relevant to your work?
- Discuss the formal elements – colour, line, tone composition?
- Discuss any specific materials or techniques that may be appropriate to your own work?
- Why do you like it or dislike it?
- Why is the research relevant to your own brief/ideas?
- What have you observed or learnt from this work?
- Does this work forward your own ideas, how?
- What elements of the research could you explore further?
- Why did you use this technique/material/process?
- Were your initial experiments effective?
- What did they lead to try next and why?
- How has this forwarded your own ideas?
- What is working/What has not worked/Why?
- What have you changed and why?
- Have altered the design because of experimentation with materials? Why?
- What are the strengths and areas for further development?
- What do you personally think of your designs?