In the tutorial of week2, we would pick up a video, a short audio, and a photo from the projects we did last week, and then showed them to your team members and described the things you chose to them. Then teacher set a small rule: There were four hats with different colours on the blackboard, every hat had different meanings. When you finished showing, each team member should pick a hat and then evaluated your works according to that hat’s meaning. They could evaluate your works from various aspects, such as your love or not for others works, shooting techniques and perspectives, this works’ originality, etc..
For example, I shoot a video: A video that I with roommate took the cat to see pet doctor and caught the cat out from the cage. I thought this video was very interesting, also showed cat’s lovely place. The comments I received were also different. One thought it was cute; the other said she did not like cats and loved dogs. There was also a person who said that the video’s background was negative, his meaning was that it should not be shot in the hospital if I shoot at home, the video would be cuter and more positive.

I’m nervous about this link to show my works. When my own language level is not too good, I’m afraid that I can’t express my ideas better to others. But I still think this method is meaningful. For photos and videos I shoot, I will unconsciously think it is perfect, and I am so satisfied with it that I can not find any shortcomings. And the evaluation of others can make you recognize that what are the shortcomings of our works, so when you shoot similar works in the future, you will unconsciously pay more attention to your previous shortcomings, thus let you better improve it to make it become better.
In that small class, we spent almost an hour learning how to basically use a video editing software Adobe Premiere Pro. And we had to download four to six small videos, and then clipped the videos together, and this video form called Haiku. I knew a little Japanese so I knew the meaning of Haiku, but Haiku in the video clips form and in the poetic form is different.
To be honest, I think this software is difficult, very difficult, because before I have not any use knowledge about editing software. I almost get mad in the class, because I don’t understand this software, so I think the teacher’s speed is a little bit faster, so I can only ask students next to me. I think after class I need to look at some relevant operating videos, and quickly grasp the basic operation, otherwise my task may be more difficult in the future.