We have finally reached to an end to the semester, well… in the context of lectures that is! This week’s lecture was design to self reflect and observe the progress that has been made since day one of entering into the course. As I look back, my style of work has improved but my conceptual and theoretical skills has had a much more dramatic improvement. Since the start of PB1/Pb2 the ideas that I had initially presented were not so creative and lacked complexity in the narrative side of things.
When it came to academic research and understanding readings, it was something that did not really interest me at all. Theory and Research were elements of media that I could not appreciate as much as I did for technical and the creative side of the job. Later down the track I realised doing the ‘dull’ work was very important to my understanding of our course in general. Understanding different perspectives and the considerations that are taken when creating media is vital to me as a content creator. Putting in the hard work, regardless of it being ‘dull’, will be nothing more than a gateway to more creativity and better content.
Other elements of my learning such as technique and sense of media are features that I feel very confident in. Since I have a background in this field work, prior to entering the course, understanding and applying them was more of a refreshment of what I have learnt a few months back. Despite already knowing most of the content in the context of the two just mentioned learning elements, it was good that I was still able to learn something new from the 12 weeks of workshops and lectures.
In our lecture we were told to plot a graph of how we felt about our learning. I blocked the weeks into groups to indicate the time which weeks focused on which assignment. This is an important aspect of the graph because most of the changes occur during the end of an assignment where I have done the work and self-reflected on ways to improve for the upcoming project. Progress, despite being slow or fast, is still progress!
My Learning Graph