The end of the summer holidays and the lead up to starting my final major project was filled with two things: The first being block outs and mood board assembly for my FMP and editing my thesis. As I had mentioned previously my style for editing was to finish an initial draft first before going back and correcting spelling mistakes, reorganizing paragraphs and re-evaluating my arguments now that I had a complete image in my head and on paper of my argument.
The edit was slow, going through section by section and editing them collectively. It is something I’m very much used to given my background in film studies. Later on, during my final term, I submitted my work to some friends in the class for them to look over it and give me feedback. The feedback was really useful as they noticed some spelling mistakes or strange turns of phrase I had used and missed in my edits. The piece of advice I found the most useful was when someone asked me what I meant by the word ‘vehicle’. I was so used to this term from my time in academia that for people without much experience in academic writing it isn’t immediately obvious what this term meant so I added a quick description so that anyone should now be able to approach my work.
With that my work on my FMP begun in full swing and I worked away at it and later submitted my thesis. That’s the end of my thesis work.