Working on this project was fun and interesting. It was definitely better than working on our last project (unit 2). It was nothing as I expected it to be.
Starting off this project was really cool. We did a lot of practical work, i.e. interviewing, photography, filming, etc. We also played mini games, which was really fun and different from what we did normally. We also met different people via this unit, which really helped me and the work that I have done for this unit. I was able to meet my target deadlines.
I think I had improved my planning and organising skills since our last unit, which made it easier for me to work on this unit. I had also realized that I work better individually but of course I did need some help. I really enjoyed doing the practical tasks especially interviewing and thought it came naturally to me, so I was really comfortable with it. But it was a lot of hard work nonetheless. Creating the final product was really hectic and chaos, but it also was fun. But at the end it was worth it because our exhibition turned really great. The best part of this unit for me was that we went out a lot.
Overall I think this was fun and exciting unit. It really helped in building my interviewing skills.
Monday 15 November 2010
Project Review
Sunday 14 November 2010
Thursday 8th July 2010
Today was a total rush and very stressful. Everybody wanted their final product finished which was due today. Which was kind of hard because everyone wanted to do everything at once. I had started my video at home and I brought to school to finish it off. But when I opened my file from the USB, it wasn't working. Nothing was appearing. So I had to delete my old file and start all over again, which was annoying and made me really angry because I had to do it again. On top of all this mess, the sound wasn't working and that just made it hard to work out my videos and music. So later on after trying everywhere, I went to the library where (thankfully!) the sound was working and everything else worked just fine. After, when I finished my video and went to hand it in. My video didn’t work! It wasn’t working in other computer. That was very annoying. But then Alie helped me out and told me why it wasn’t working. I didn’t publish it as a movie, so that’s why it wasn’t working. Finally I was able to give it in. Thank God!
Thursday 1st July 2010
Today we are told to think about how we could get our final product together. How can we get everything in line of order and how would we would present it. I started on the video that I had initially thought about. It was a bit difficult for me to go about it because I never used windows movie maker before. But finally I got the gist of what I could achieve if knew exactly how windows movie maker works. So it was okay. Later on the day Dominic and the older participants arrived and we showed them what we had done (the videos we made until they arrived). Then we were taken to the theatre where we did yet again another workshop.After doing that we sat in a circle and briefly spoke about our food stories to remind everybody what we spoke about last time. Then the older participants were told to speak about their oldest child memory on food. Each one of them told us a very fascinating story. Then we were put into the groups of the mediums we had chosen and then each group had an older participant who’d we had to interview regarding their food story and record it with our given medium. Later we sat back in a circle and discussed very thoroughly about what needs to be done for next week because, next week is when we hand in our final product.
