A 350-word post appraising your final work – What was your intention with this work? Did you achieve it? What aspects of the work are you proud of? What media production skills do you need to improve?

The reason why we chose graffiti as our topic in assignment 4 is that graffiti as an indispensable part of Melbourne’s culture is very attractive to us. Compare with other countries, graffiti arts are not popular in China. Because of the historical background of our country, there is no such place and streets to allow people painting on the wall and it is illegal in China. On the other hand, due to the different ways of receiving education, some Chinese people cannot fully understand and integrate graffiti cultures. But in Melbourne, we can see the inclusiveness and freedom of the city from various graffiti designs. Everyone can show their creativity and imagination in graffiti arts and every graffiti has a different meaning include positive and negative. Finally, they turn these unique design concepts into a representative tourist attraction. So, we hope to make a 3-4-minute short promotional video to spread Melbourne’s graffiti culture. Even if this art is hidden in some corners or alleys, we hope that not only Melbourne residents, more foreigners can comprehend and appreciate this art through the video we make. Although there are many shortcomings, I think we have achieves this goal in general because we focus on the theme of graffiti and record the productions and interviews of some street artists. I think these materials might make our promotional video more convincing. During the shooting process, what I am proud of is that our cooperation is very smooth because we can solve problems effectively and quickly when there are disputes, like when we were confused and arguing about how to record graffiti in Melbourne central, we decided to shoot from different angles. Moreover, we interviewed a man from China, whose interview content is very important to our whole video because he not only praised graffiti art and mentioned a lot about cultural background. In terms of media production skills, I think we still have many shortcomings. It is hard for us to edit the effect we want because we are not familiar with software and cameras. Some blurred lens has no focus; some of the shaking pieces because we didn’t use the tripod. In addition, we haven’t used some editing skills skillfully, such as how to use professional noise reduction function or other technology. These problems make it impossible for us to make the video that comes to our mind. There are all things we need to improve, but after this exercise, I hope to have improved in the next video.