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Effective Annotation for Visual Diaries

Annotation is an essential part of developing one's personal aesthetic. It involves documenting ideas, concepts, influences, experiments, and solutions in written form to describe the thought processes undertaken to create finished artworks. Students are required to annotate every page of their visual diary, as annotation is a key part of assessment. The document provides guidelines for effective annotation, such as discussing ideas and sources of inspiration, experiments, materials, aesthetic qualities, potential directions, reflections, labeling, dating, discussing failures, and annotating often with structured and careful writing.

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Effective Annotation for Visual Diaries

Annotation is an essential part of developing one's personal aesthetic. It involves documenting ideas, concepts, influences, experiments, and solutions in written form to describe the thought processes undertaken to create finished artworks. Students are required to annotate every page of their visual diary, as annotation is a key part of assessment. The document provides guidelines for effective annotation, such as discussing ideas and sources of inspiration, experiments, materials, aesthetic qualities, potential directions, reflections, labeling, dating, discussing failures, and annotating often with structured and careful writing.

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Annotation

Annotation is an essential part of developing your own personal aesthetic


Annotation is the written documentation of your ideas, concepts, influences, trials,
experiments, and solutions. It describes the thought processes a student moves through in
order to reach their folio of finished artworks. Annotation is required in some form on every
page of the visual dairy and is a key part of the assessment.
Use the following dot points as a guide on how to use annotation in your Visual
Diary:

Discuss thoughts and ideas on your concept and subject matter

Discuss the work of artists who inspire you and other sources of inspiration such
as found images or newspaper clippings

Describe and discuss the experiments you undertake and evaluate their
effectiveness

Discuss the materials and techniques that are being explored

Describe and discuss the development and application of aesthetic qualities


such as the use of line, colour, texture, shape, etc

Clearly label Potential Directions and thoroughly evaluate their effectiveness

Discuss personal reflection about the progress and refinement of the Design
Process and clearly flag work that will continue to be refined or has the potential
to be worked through in the future

Date and number each page in the visual diary to keep track of the progress of
the work

Don't disregard failed attempts; identify and discuss why the results failed and
what will be modified in the future to produce even stronger work

Define titles for each page of the Design Process to make the navigation easier
for you and your teacher

Clearly label found images and words citing their original author, source or artist
to ensure there are no questions asked about the authenticity of your work

Annotate often rather than sometimes; this will help make the responses more
detailed and meaningful

The process of annotation could become more structured through the use of a
key allocating different colours to the types of annotation written

Careless misspelling is distracting, especially if it is an artist's name or art terms


that are used consistently throughout the design process

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