Everything is just like in a blink of my eyes, but so many things happened. I took this media 1 with a big “zero”. I do not know how to analyses an academic material. I do not know how to operate a camera or edit a movie clip. Even my English was still very limited. However, look at me now. I believe that I have improved a lot.
During the time when I was working on Project Brief 1 and 2, I thought that I would change my major next semester. I was overwhelmed by the weight of the course. I felt lost, I felt bored, but something inside of me told me to keep going.
At first I did not understand why I had to write those blogs. It seemed to be meaningless to me. Writing about my lectures and tutorials is a requirement for the blogs. The problem is that most of the time I did not get what the teachers were talking about. I kept on wondering why. Was it because my English was too bad? No, not bad at all. It was limited, but it was not that bad. Fortunately, I have realized what I lacked recently: I need to a reason when I do something seriously and emotion. I know that a professional does not rely too much on emotion. Therefore, I will have to get use to balancing my emotion and cognition.
Back there, when I still worked as a bartender, I felt strong emotions at every drinks I made. I also began at the bottom, but I improved so fast because of the word “passion”. Personally, I felt like our most of the lectures missed the element of “emotion”. I could not write a reflection right after other students. I need to go home and gather everything to analyse every pieces of information so that I can think about it.
Time went by, little by little, I started to feel more. May be I just need time to adapt all of those things. I try to think critically about the media world in which I am living with different aspects. Zombie is big example for my point. Before this semester, I considered zombie is just horrified and disgusting, but why they are so popular. That question was hanging around my head until I use the skills from media course to peel its ugly cover. The more I read about it, the more I realize its true nature. From there, I think every other of media product is the same. Most of the time, there are implication or social comment that is hidden in an artefact waiting for me to uncover. I have to study, observe and notice actively if I want to catch the feeling and become a real media practitioner in the future.
In terms of technical skills, I obtained so many valuable practical experiences in a short time, especially thanks to Project Brief 4. I have learned how to work individually and in a team from this project. To create a great media product, I suppose collaboration, communicating and responsibility are the 3 key elements.
Here are the links to my 5 favourite entries to present what I have learned so far:
2. Post-modern zombie as allegorical and iconographic figure