It is officially our final week of classes for semester 1 and I am not sure how to feel about everything. It was a long process getting here, and to be honest I can’t explain everything I’ve learnt in the past 12 weeks. My journey hasn’t been the best there is. Out of all students I still believe I am the laziest and least talented, but I do think I have improved a lot from what I was before I started the course.

This is my progress graph for the last 12 weeks, or at least an estimate. As you can see I have improved heaps, from being behind the class to actually grasping ideas and concepts very easily now. I especially had a spike in week 8 for noticing the benefits of having this blog to help me catalogue everything I’ve learnt and my attitude towards certain subjects at that time.

This is also my farewell to the Monday Morning Crew. I know we were always suffering those early mornings together and for some it felt like we were disadvantaged for being before the lecture class, but I enjoyed my first day of uni with you guys and I have enjoyed every minute from then to now with everyone.

The things I learnt, from soundscape to the influence of social media, has helped me better understand why I am in this course. I started this journey in hopes of learning about the wonderful world of Media, not just directing or PR, but media overall, and these 12 weeks have shown how different and exciting everything in media can potentially be.

This is also my farewell to the Monday Morning Crew. I know we were always suffering those early mornings together and for some it felt like we were disadvantaged for being before the lecture class, but I enjoyed my first day of uni with you guys and I have enjoyed every minute from then to now with everyone.

The things I learnt, from soundscape to the influence of social media, has helped me better understand why I am in this course. I started this journey in hopes of learning about the wonderful world of Media, not just directing or PR, but media overall, and these 12 weeks have shown how different and exciting everything in media can potentially be. In these 12 weeks I have challenged myself to do new things, pushed bad habits, and gained new experiences in approaching a task in multiple ways.

 

Some highlights to for my year can be found below with a little description of why I chose them.

What Team? – This was the lecture on collaboration, and also when I truly got to understand how team-based the media industry is. It was an eye-opening day, because I never realised how much you relied on people to accomplish their goals so that the final product can work. Communication and teamwork is the key thing to bring when going into a group, and hopefully by now I have mastered that.

Happy Birthday to the Ground – This was about institutions, and my understanding of their presence in the media landscape has expanded tremendously after that. These few weeks I have noticed more often how much we are all institutionalised, and that it is naive to think that things can just exist without so much happening behind what is being presented.

Do You Hear the People [Sing] – This blog on audience truly fun for me to write. I personally found the topic of audiences and interaction between viewer and product to be an area I am comfortable discussing. This blog piece is one of the few I am proud to present my ideas, whereas others have been concepts that i borrowed this one had my legitimate concerns and predictions of the future ways of audience engagements.

All of The Stars – This blog post was one of the first passionate ones I wrote after a very entertaining line-up of lecturers. It was my first experience with being engaged and it’s a standout because I still remember my excitement after class as I was writing it.

The Final Me – It may be a post about my second project brief but it is the one I am most proud of. It encapsulates a lot of what I am, or was at the time. Looking at it now I can see so many things wrong and so many things right. The idea was great, the technique sloppy, but at the time I can see that past me thought it was quirky and hilarious, while present me sees it as lazy.

 

This reflection has been a real roller-coaster for me. I’ve realised that I still have a lot more to go and understand that after 3 months not everything can improve as I had imagined. I did have a lot of confidence issues in my work, but as I’ve started to share more and more work with peers it has become easier to create things I am happy with. I have learnt that what I create now may not impact what I am tomorrow, but it can still be a good stepping stone on my path to becoming that amazing media practitioner.