Final course reflection

Meida One Final course reflection

 

What I have learnt :

I benefit a lot from learning and participating in Media one class. Before i studied media, i’m a science students and I even do not make any videos before.  I have no basic ideas about media except my daily media life experiences. From the media one class, i start to familiarize how to use these complex adobe software to make audios and videos . I learnt how to use these professional audio and vedio facilities, such as H2N ZOOM and Sony MC50. As a media student, i also learnt a lot in terms of media concepts and professional words. As an international student, whose first language is not English, I started to learn how to write blog with English every week. From media one class parctice and assessments, i learnt how to collaborate with my group member through the workshops and the PB4. These experiences provided my a great opportunity to learn and be profession.

 

How I learn:

After attending and participating in Media one class, I started to transfer my way of thinking and how I dealt with daily media footages. Adobe softwares, as our primarily subject application, I thoroughly learnt it from Media one factory and other student’s work. This is the fundamental point of my learning. Based on that, I also paid a lot of atttention on other student’s work to learn the way they produce vedio and audio based media. Collaborating with group members is another way of learning. I learnt the ways my group members would generally used to make media outcomes. Furthermore, I changed my way of adopting daily media footages by watching them to thorougly thinking how to use them and utilize them into my work.

I learnt how to use H2N Zoom and Sony MC500 from workshop practices with my group members. Brian taught us how to use them as well as providing a guidance for us to follow it up. Each gourp member help each other to use these equipments while we are practicing.

I started to adapt to the way of sharing my learning and thoughts through Blog. I gradually make writing on the blog from routine action to a meaningful thing.

l learnt how to cooperate with group members by having a lot of communication with them. I listened their thoughts carefully and response them with my personal understanding and advice. Every group member maintained a harmonious relationship and be thankful that we can work together.

 

What you found most challenging in the course?

I think the most challening thing is i have no basic media knowledge. I do not know how to use adobe softwares to make media projects. I do not know the concept of media. And i haven’t got a lot of creative ideas to make these audio-based and video-based media. Also, the language is also a very challenging thing for me. English is not my first language, but media is a subject based on a lot of reading or writing things. It is really hard for me like writing beautiful blogs or reading long articles quickly especially the academic articles.

 

What you discovered about your own creative practice?

I discovered that I started to generate some creative ideas through practice. I start to think how to make the projects more interesting and creative. And while i’m doing my projects, a lot of ideas came out. I never know i can have so many ideas without doing these projects. It’s really appreciable for me to see this from doing these work

 

Posts demonstrates your engagement with the course and its key ideas and objectives:

• Project Brief 1_Lofi Media Self-Portrait : This post is the first project brief we did. It did not need any editing but just the original footage. However, it should have present myself without any words. It is the first project i start to think how to make project creative and interested audiences. I think i do pertty well. I try to have some creative things, some worked and some did not. I think it is a good beginning point through this study.
• Week 2-Lectorial Exercise-“Media is Everywhere”: This post is the exercise we did on lectorial. This exercise provides me a straight way approach to understand substantial media concepts. It let me know the media is not just the thing i thought before. Actucally it is in everywhere. This exercise also let me know the how important media it is !!!
• Haiku Exercise, Project Brief 2_Media Self-Portrait: These posts are the projects which let me know how to use adobe software and how combine the footages together. Actually, i learned a lot from these practice like i said above.
• RECORDING SOUND EXERCISE, SONY MC50 INTERVIEW EXERCISE, Project Brief 3: These posts are the projects which let me learn how to use these professional machines. And i also learnt how to cooprate with my group members through exercise. These are real make me feel useful in my media study.
• Review on Kung Fu Panda, Review on The legend of 1900, Review on Forrest Gump, Review on The Day After Tommorrow, Review on I Am Legend : These posts are the review of the English movies i’ve seen in this semester. At first, i do not have ideas about write what extra things about media on blog. Then i start to see a English movie every week. It not only help my writing skills and listening skills, but also have a lot of ideas about how to edit the videos or audios to make the videos more interesting.