Week 16 | Jwhiteual132024

Week 16: 20th-24th May

Monday

Today I continued on with the evaluation for the project. I was able to complete the audience and meeting their needs segment. It was really beneficial to get the chance to think about the audience, and what I found particularly interesting was looking into depth at the response I got back from my survey due to what they said. I had a lot of really sweet, kind comments which made me proud of what I was able to produce, and I also had lots of good critical feedback which helped me realise the changes I could have made and what I would have done differently. I continued to upload my work onto the website as I went, as this would save a large job at the end if I hadn't done this at all.

Tuesday

Today was the day for my LO7 part 3 presentation to a specified audience. I was quite nervous to do the presentation, but having planned and produced the presentation a few days ago, and running through it last night, there was nothing to worry about.

I will firstly say that I think the presentation went very well. Having run through the presentation the night before, I was well equipped to bounce off of my notes on the presentation and expand upon them through my words. I found that in the moment of the presentation I did very well at explaining the decisions I made and most importantly, why I made them. I was able to go into a lot of detail, and through speaking about them, I was able to remember other points to speak about too.

Nigel and Danny actually asked questions against what I was saying that I was going to mention later on in the presentation. This shows that what I included within the presentation was the correct evidence to include. This happened when I was discussing having researched misophonia to ensure I don’t trigger those I work with, as Nigel then proceeded to ask about how I coped with this with my brother who was also apart of the documentary. I was going to get onto working with my brother within the next section, but instead decided to bounce off of what Nigel was saying and include it here instead.

I also really liked the fact I included video evidence as this was really useful to speak about. It was much easier to speak about something that they could see and hear. A specific example is the use of intercutting, as I was then able to explain my thoughts and decisions that I made regarding this. When questioned why I’m happy with the intercutting, it was easy to answer as I had little notes explaining the structure that I had planned out.

With this being my very last learning objective task, I also found it quite a sentimental moment; coming to the end of a 16 week long project as well as coming to the end of college as a whole. I really tried to put in all my effort into the final presentation in order to round everything off to a positive ending that has hopefully reflected the way in which I have tried to work for my time at college.

To view the presentation video, click here.

Wednesday

Today I continued on with the evaluation for the project. I tried to plan out my timings and ensure that I would have enough time to finish everything I needed to. This meant that I had to work really hard and plough through some stages. I managed to complete Career and Skills Development and also finished all but 2 sections on Critical Perspectives. I wanted to get a lot done today so that I have time to bug-test my website and ensure that needs to be on website is on there and any links/buttons work too.

Thursday

Today I continued on with the evaluation for the project. As I stated, yesterday I left the final 2 sections of Critical Perspectives, so this is what I completed first. I thought really carefully about the words I was using in order to explain the thought processes I went through to produce it. What I actually found was that I had used lots of different theories without even realising, and that the creative decisions I made actually had a lot to talk about. It's interesting because in the moment it just came natural to me to make the decisions I made, but looking back on it, this may have been because of the subconscious understand of the theories I discussed. After this I then completed the final evaluation section where I was able to round everything off and bring it to a close.

Friday

Today was my final every day of college, which was really quite sentimental. I made sure that I had completed all work that needed to be done for todays 4o'clock deadline so that I could simply enjoy the day. It was really nice to be able to see everyone for the last time, and I can't wait for what the future holds for me.