Having finished the Media Self Portrait and forgetting its very existence, I was alarmingly surprised to learn that the task for our week 5 tutorial was to present our piece to our contemporaries.

Seeing both my metaphorical ‘self’ on the screen and having my physical self in the same room, projected in front of a class of 20 people, was a nerve-racking experience that ultimately proved highly rewarding. By having my peers cast their views on the way I was portraying myself via a piece of media enabled me to better come to terms with critique and helped fuel my inner desires.

I can categorically say that I will still dread every time that this will happen, although now I will welcome it as a means of further improving both my technical skills in editing and a way to come to terms with critique.

– donandsherri