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In order for me to elicit feedback I must have a way of distributing and presenting my creative projects. The internet provides many ways of making this happen and I am currently using YouTube as a way to demo my work and elicit feedback. Another way of eliciting feedback is for me to individually solicit it from colleagues whom I respect (notice the proper use of ‘whom’). I feel that if I approach someone and explain that I value their opinion and ask for their feedback on my project that they will be very willing, open, helpful, and honest.

Utilizing feedback is the important part of this process. Getting feedback is pretty easy, honestly. Anyone will look at what you do and tell you what they like and don’t like. Actually having the courage and humility to implement changes and listen and understand what people are telling you is difficult. It is hard to change a project that you have been working on. It’s your baby. You made it, and who are they to tell you what to do and how to change your baby? I think it is important to be detached from your project. Of course I’m not saying to not be invested in your project. Be invested in it and in its creation, but when it comes time to analyze, get feedback, and make changes, you must be detached. I mean detached as in removed emotionally from what people tell you. You have to be willing to accept that people will not see what you created as you meant it. They will not like what you are telling them. This is not always true, but it is sometimes the case.

This is how I work personally. I am really invested in what I make and the entire creative process. I try my best. But when it comes time for feedback I try to understand the viewpoint of those who I am asking for feedback. It is not their project and they are not invested in it, so I try to understand this and distance myself from my project so that their feedback does not attack me, but rather helps me understand how to improve. This has proven very helpful because this way it is not a question of personal attacks, but of opinions.