This weeks lecture was more of a reflection on media 1 as a whole, rather than anything else. Of course we still have Project Brief 4 to submit before we are completely finished for the semester, yet this was the time to reflect on how far we have come as media practioners. The learning graph we were asked to complete symbolizes our improvement in the areas of; technical skills, conceptual, professionalism and practice skills. I believe I have definitely improved in all areas, which is noticeable in the graph. Especially technical skills, as I now know how to use Adobe Audition and Adobe Premier Pro which were skills I did not know at all in the beginning of the semester.
When I think about what I learnt and how I learnt that I think is really valuable, I do think about the Adobe software that I have now learnt how to use. I learnt how to successfully use Premier Pro and Adobe Audition by trial and error, I improved my skills by always making new videos and sounds and making mistakes and then correcting those mistakes to therefore be happy and content with my end product, for example the interview video for Project Brief 3. What I found the most challenging about the course was sometimes trying to keep up with everyone else. As I do believe that many apart from me have a more thorough technical understanding of the Adobe software, and easily keeping on track with assignments, and because I was just learning about the Adobe programs, I did sometimes feel like I was falling behind. What I have discovered about my own practice as a media practitioner is I am capable of being a media practitioner, although this sounds pretty straight forward, before this course began I was scared that I wasn’t cut out for this course or I was not technically clever enough to make and produce good media content. However this course is really great at giving beginners like me time, time to learn, grow and do, and because of this I have been able to make media content, and this content has definitely improved in terms of its quality from the beginning of the course, till now.
