Here it is, the final curated blog post for Semester 1
It’s been an interesting experience so far. I only had a vague idea of what to expect when entering this course and how it’s panned out has been quite different. There’s only so much you can find out about any course like this before you do it. Talk to other you know have done, look up the course online, etc. but that doesn’t really prepare you for what the day to day life of being part of the Bachelor of Communications Media at RMIT is really like.
It’s been a challenge at times but overall an enjoyable experience (so far).
“It was the best of times, it was the blurst of times”
http://www.mediafactory.org.au/jac-meddings/2015/03/09/blog-title-origins/
Reflection on Media 1 Semester 1
This course has really taught me a fair bit so far. There seems to be a big focus on being able to present yourself in a semi-professional way, take feedback (be is positive or negative) and be able to provide useful feedback on the work of others. While giving praise is always easy at first I struggled with giving my feedback to others in regards to things that were negative or could be changed. The concept of Edward de Bono’s 6 thinking hats was used regularly int he first few weeks. Initially this seem like a childish way to go about things remind me of primary school, however it turned out be a very useful platform on which to provide feedback and accept the feedback of others.
The first 3 assessments were an interesting experience. I learnt a lot while doing them including how to go about representing myself and really considering how what I choose to put out will be received by an audience and also how to represent someone else in a certain light. These projects had a lot of freedom with them, it was essentially go and do this thing on yourself/someone and come back with it all done, do it however you want with whatever equipment/software you want. This is both a good thing and bad thing in many regards. Good in the regards of artistic freedom but bad in that it gave some an advantage. While it was stated we wouldn’t be judged on technical ability at this point those that had good technical ability had an advantage.
I found that the lectorial in Media one really varied in content, so a broad range of all things to do with media were covered and I learnt a lot. However when it came to working on the final assessment, the media artefact, if the lectorial wasn’t useful towards that I’d loose interest. Overall though the lectorials really were a source of a broad range of topics and information making them a key source in my learning.
I often found it a challenge to motivate myself to do the reading for Media 1. Besides gaining a bit of knowledge and some potential material to blog about there wasn’t really much incentive to get it done leaving it at the bottom of my study priority list. When you’ve got an essay for another class and only some reading to do for this class I know which one I’ll forget about.
Overall this course has taught me a lot about the very broad (and occasionally age) world of media and I look forward to seeing what’s to come.
http://www.mediafactory.org.au/jac-meddings/2015/03/17/state-library-drugs-chants/
http://www.mediafactory.org.au/jac-meddings/2015/03/19/jac-self-portrait/
http://www.mediafactory.org.au/jac-meddings/2015/05/28/screen-writing-workshop/
http://www.mediafactory.org.au/jac-meddings/2015/05/27/week-12-lectorial-media-materialism/
http://www.mediafactory.org.au/jac-meddings/2015/05/22/st-kilda-film-festival-2015-opening-night/
