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Saturday, December 13, 2014
Reflection Essay
The moment you introduced the project in class, I started mapping out ideas on how to go about it; I was very excited to work on the documentary. When it came time to start working on it, by going out and gathering information and relevant footage, my excitement was still evident. It started to fade away when we started editing because it felt like we spent an eternity cooped up in the media depot. That is definitely the number one struggle my group and I encountered during the process of creating an education abroad documentary. Although the editing process was prolonged, the end product proved that all the hard work and the sacrifices each one of us had to make, was worthwhile. What we have as a final cut of our documentary, makes me so proud to have had the opportunity to work on such a documentary and with the individuals I worked on it with; Rana, Anna, and Monique. Of course every success encounters challenges and setbacks. For this documentary, one setback we had was the fact that we only had 5 minutes to fit everything in. This was a setback because we had so much we wanted to share with people and with the 5-min limit, we couldn't exactly do that. This is also one of the parts we spent a lot of time in because it wasn't easy to choose the footage that would make it on the documentary. If I had to change an aspect of the documentary, this would be it.
I talk about how everything came together to produce an amazing end product but the foundation of that amazing end product is more important. Each one of us had roles and responsibilities in the span of the 6 weeks we had to work on this documentary. On my part, I was responsible of interviewing Dr. Ogden, the director of EA, Harley and Diane, the students who have studied abroad and had problems with financials, and also peers who have developed an interest in EA and are planning on traveling abroad soon. I was also responsible of typing and posting the storyboard. Lastly, but most certainly not least, it was my responsibility to edit most the footage we gathered and organize it in a way that would make a pleasing documentary.
All in all, working on this documentary was memorable, not only because we ended up with an amazing documentary, but also because each one of us made sure that we created a positive environment to work on. For example, in-order to avoid conflict, I made sure that I put myself in my teammates' shoes to try and understand their perspective on how a part of the documentary should be done. Also, in all the seriousness involved in creating a documentary, we made sure that we took some time off to just have a little fun before falling back into the work ahead of us. With this, we were all able to provide 100% effort towards completing this project.
Regarding the class as a whole, in all honesty, the readings and films we watched didn't cause me to think about my world differently but working on this project slightly made a difference in the way I view the campus community; I now appreciate the UK community more. Although my views weren't changed, some of my skills were enhanced; my public speaking skills. Through the lessons taught about different styles of communication, which I preferred more than writing essays, I now know what is expected when presenting a speech. In my opinion, the lectures and the discussions were balanced enough so I wouldn't have preferred more of the other. However, in the future, I think it might be helpful to introduce discussions that would encourage more student participation, which leads me to the topic of the one thing I'd change about this course; It wasn't clear to me what was considered participation and how it was going to be graded. So, I didn't agree with the grading method of that particular section. Otherwise, I enjoyed being in this class, meeting new people, and having you as my professor.
I talk about how everything came together to produce an amazing end product but the foundation of that amazing end product is more important. Each one of us had roles and responsibilities in the span of the 6 weeks we had to work on this documentary. On my part, I was responsible of interviewing Dr. Ogden, the director of EA, Harley and Diane, the students who have studied abroad and had problems with financials, and also peers who have developed an interest in EA and are planning on traveling abroad soon. I was also responsible of typing and posting the storyboard. Lastly, but most certainly not least, it was my responsibility to edit most the footage we gathered and organize it in a way that would make a pleasing documentary.
All in all, working on this documentary was memorable, not only because we ended up with an amazing documentary, but also because each one of us made sure that we created a positive environment to work on. For example, in-order to avoid conflict, I made sure that I put myself in my teammates' shoes to try and understand their perspective on how a part of the documentary should be done. Also, in all the seriousness involved in creating a documentary, we made sure that we took some time off to just have a little fun before falling back into the work ahead of us. With this, we were all able to provide 100% effort towards completing this project.
Regarding the class as a whole, in all honesty, the readings and films we watched didn't cause me to think about my world differently but working on this project slightly made a difference in the way I view the campus community; I now appreciate the UK community more. Although my views weren't changed, some of my skills were enhanced; my public speaking skills. Through the lessons taught about different styles of communication, which I preferred more than writing essays, I now know what is expected when presenting a speech. In my opinion, the lectures and the discussions were balanced enough so I wouldn't have preferred more of the other. However, in the future, I think it might be helpful to introduce discussions that would encourage more student participation, which leads me to the topic of the one thing I'd change about this course; It wasn't clear to me what was considered participation and how it was going to be graded. So, I didn't agree with the grading method of that particular section. Otherwise, I enjoyed being in this class, meeting new people, and having you as my professor.
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