Individual reflection of PB4

I think the most successful part in our submitted essays are the whole essay we did really based on a huge research. All of the topics we are talking about is really academic. While i’m listening and seeing our essays, i think that people can really learn a lot of knowledge from these two essays. The problematic aspects is the conversation in audio essay sometimes make audiences feel a little bit boring, because of the essay is really based on a huge academic resources. While people listening the huge academic conversation, it’s easy to feel boring. And because it is a academic radio style audio, we can’t add a lot of sound effects to cover the conversation except the relax part in the radio.I think it is a problem we try to fix it, like we use a little bit sound effects as i said. However, we don’t know how it works to audiences. Luckily, in the video part, we can use images and video footages to show to audiences. It makes a lot of sense and fun to audiences. This problem will not seen in our video essays.

 

From my individual contribution, actually in our group we do the research individually. We discussed a lot about our concept. Like we do the concept about “media technology”, we read the reading first to have a normal concept. And then we try to narrow the concept a bit. Finally we choose the “camera phone” for our mean direction. And we separate the concepts and research a bit. And my part is “ Fine Arts & Personal Self Expression in phone camera”.  I search a lot of articles online and i use the way Brain taught us how to search resources in RMIT library. It helps me a lot for research about academic resources.  

 

Like i said before, the audio-based media only can use the sound to make people feel sense. I think the audio-based media is harder than video-based media for me. Because it need more creative ideas to make audiences feel interesting. There is no images to show to the audiences. It is a challenge for people to do it. Like how to use the sound effects, the tone of people talking and how to use the footages. These things are also the things should pay attention to video-based media. However, video-based media more focus on the image and the images is sometimes make people easier to make sense.

While i’m doing the group work, i feel really happy with that. Like George Bernard Shaw said “If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange apples then you and I will still each have one apple.But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas,then each of us will have two ideas.”  While we are discussing the ideas for our essays. All of us have a lot of ideas, and other members’ ideas is really nice. And we combine our ideas together make a really good work. Because i’m a international student and my first language is not English, and this time I  learn a lot of from my group  members,like how they write the text and the way they communicate. And i never make the videos before i start to learn media one. I also know a lot of knowledges about how to make videos more creative from my group members. I feel very happy with my group work, we learn a lot, we know each other a lot and we do our work pretty good. I think it make me want to have more group work in further, because it learn much more in group than you do the work alone. In the further group work, i will be a person have a lot of communications with my members. It is really helpful in the group, because you can have a lot of creative ideas while in communicating.