During my conflicted feelings about the marking process it occurred to me that I didn’t actually know what marking would look like this year, post emergency pandemic mode. What things had changed forever? What were they planning to bring back?

I realised the best way to do this was to ask the course leader. We ended up having a 10 min phone call where I asked questions, listened and then adapted further questions on the spot depending on the answers. Turns out they are still unsure what they are doing for the marking process this year- and are still in talks about it.

Course Leaders want to revert to an in-person students verbal presentation of work. This includes performers wearing items that were made. They are also pushing for final builds/makes to be submitted to look at in person, not just digitally- for the make up students this also means submitting their production moulds (not to be marked on!! but just so that they cannot make any prosthetic appliances for their assessment between deadline and presentation).

They will submit a digital logbook of 25 pages and final images or a film in conjunction.

Apparently there has been push back from higher up because of the administrative organisation required to facilitate artefact hand ins and face to face presentations with models etc. They want to revert to purely digital submission.

I find pure digital submission problematic on a 3D practical skills, making based course.

I wonder what will happen…..