Collaboration Evaluation

The majority of the collaboration brief was more than a challenge, not the brief directly, but having to try to come to some sort of agreement with Anthony on almost every design decision, since the start of the brief where we identified our key roles within the collaboration Anthony had emphasised that we had to stick to and adhere to only those roles we had assigned each other.
This became more than a hinderance on more than one occasion, for example at the start of the biref when trying to outline the brief and rationale rather than hear what I had to say and confirm on something, he would often go to ask someone else that he sees in his eyes as worthy to confer and discuss our ideas. This was incredibly irritating especially when it took us 2 weeks to come up with something solid, which left us to produce next to no work, which leads on to my next point, following on in the tradition of Anthony's common mood swings and apprehension to anything conclusive, when it came to decision making, or any sort of preparation or planning, he would refer to the role sheet at the start. 


Any of my image making had to be run by and cross-checked with Anthony before I proceeded to develop or even start creating visuals, as to ensure it fit the brief according to him, which made me lose alot of drive and interest very early on in the brief, along with his continued negativity, disinterest and snide comments made it a very tough project to finish.


In contrast, he did teach me the value and skills of being well organised to make better use of my time which will really help me for the next brief, but rather than scrutinize, overplan and procrastinate to the point where nothing gets done, I will have free reign to produce a much larger quanitity of work, and produce something that will be a decent portfolio piece.