COUNTDOWN

This is now the COUNTDOWN to the end of the year.
The outstanding essay is now complete so there is just the SELF-DIRECTED part of our work.
I have decided to do this in two sections, possibly not equal:

(a) Video Portrait of a Parish Centre
(b) Installation with recorded Performance on Bipolar Balance.

LENGTH OF PROPOSAL
One of the comments at my assessment was that the statement on what I was going to do was too long.
In hindsight, I can see now how this happened. It arose from a misunderstanding. I had done the series of talks with Sarah Browne on making a Proposal and she had given made outline notes available to us with which I was very impressed. When I asked if Claire if I would follow this outline, I didn't show it to her, so when she said yes go ahead, we were actually talking about two different proposals.

It was only afterwards that I realized what the mistake I had made was about.
Sarah's notes referred to a document to be sent to a stranger who would need contextual information.
The Notes for the assessors were addressed to people who are very familiar with what I am doing, and I gave them far more detail than they needed.

Added to that, the fact that I sent the document by email, and it highly formatted meant that it spewed out a stack of pages when Claire printed it.
So the two lessons I am faced with learning:

• Clarify terms in matters of importance. Make sure that we both agree that we are talking about the same thing.
• Give hard copies if that is permitted, otherwise, either use attachments or do the doc in TEXT ONLY in the body of the email.
• Could also suggest to Claire that she give a max number of words, rather than a number of pages, seeing that formatting can be used to cheat on the number of pages (which is what I did, but it didn't come off)

I have now decided to write a short statement here (see next blog entry) , mostly to clarify my own mind. About 600 to 700 words is probably enough as that fills a page.