As it is the day before our first graded assignment is due, the week 4 workshop today was spent helping others and working on our own projects. We moved around the classroom, sitting with people we’ve never sat with before to show them our works and ask them their thoughts on how to make it better. Surprisingly, showing people my work has become far less daunting than at the start of the semester.
I really, really enjoyed seeing all the different ways that people would portray themselves through a video, it was all very interesting and unique. Some would show themselves in an abstract manner, while one even portrayed a specific snippet of their day-to-day life. Although I have a completely different style in my film, watching other people’s portraits inspired me.
There was far less pressure when criticising people’s works this week, and I’ve chosen to believe that this is because we weren’t allocated certain types of criticisms to give, like we had in the hat system. Everyone was able to talk freely amongst each other, giving and getting feedback, and adding onto what the last person was saying. Though I believe that everyone has built up the confidence to criticise from previously using the hat system, and therefore we had taken positives, negatives, how it made us feel and alternatives into account.
