Interview day

The date given to me for my interview was Thursday 12th March, leading up to the interview day I was prepping my photography work and how the pictures would be laid out on the table.

Today was a day full of nerves as I was the last person to be interviewed. The interview wasn't what I had expected it was very informal and chatty, as I had picked one project it was interesting to see what my interviewers thought in the initial show of the project. I don't know if it went exactly how the interviews should go, I explained my project and I got a lot of different feedback from it.

Firstly, on the technicalities on the photography, they complimented the light and the way that the photographs where shot however they did say that they need extra editing to make slightly better.

Secondly, they asked me why I chose this project and explained that I am interested in the behaviour and interaction between people due to my mum training to be a councillor. That is when they started to understand and question certain parts of my project. They told me it was flawed but I could use this to my advantage and use it like a lab experiment and see the reactions I could get from people, or go another way where I take the most consistent part of the shoot (that being me and the camera) out, making it so they have to use there phones etc. I feel like having a fresh set of eyes looking at my project this gave me new ways to work and question what I have already done.

I felt like I struggled a lot to give a clear answer to my project as I had found it difficult to come up with a basis of my project for so long so at this point I had tried a couple of different avenues but what I shown was what I felt worked best. The pointed out that a lot of the work was repetitive and would looking a  behaviour instead of the interaction make more sense to this project possibly. 

Overall, I feel like the interview went well, I was able to gain some new ideas but also be able to reflect on what I have already done and possibly re-shoot or re-examine the work. My feelings overall were sort of neutral when I first came out the room, I was just happy it was over with but as I started to talk about it with one of my peers it did knock my confidence but with the fresh ideas and exploration routes, even the re-editing of some photographs I feel that it is pushing me to be more creative and experimental, it is also given me a clearer mind on what my project will be explaining.