Time management skills

According to the self assessment questionnaire that I filled in, my time management skills a very high recording a score of 24 out of 25 points. However, towards the end of the first semester, I found that although I had planned in time throughout the week to complete college work, I did not always stick to my time plan. This is something that I wanted to improve on in the second semester, and have therefore set myself a more rigid time plan of what I want to achieve within a specific time period.

I made the decision to use my next project to both try and improve on and meet this target. One of the modules called skills for meeting client briefs involved the Huhtamaki brief. As mentioned previously in my blog entries this was to shoot a series of images of coffee cups both on location and in studio.

In order to get the best result from this experience, I decided I would need to sit down and plan each of the studio shots individually, write a list of props needed before the shoot and have a rough idea of how I wanted to light the image in order to ensure that I used my shooting time wisely. Although this took more time initially at the planning stage, I found that after doing two out of four studio shoots it has saved me time in the long run as I knew the more about what I wanted to achieve.
This is a technique that I plan to use in the rest of the course and for also for the other modules.