Personally, within my final major project, I don’t think I achieved my aims. My final piece turned out to be something that I didn’t expect, but that’s okay. I think I could’ve done a bit more to achieve the comedic style I was going for but none the less I did the best I could, considering I changed my idea and gave myself less time. I don’t think I achieved my aims in this project because of the amount of time I gave myself to do it all in. If I hadn’t of changed my idea, I think I would’ve had a better end result. This was a learning curve for me in terms of teaching me how much time keeping helps and how much having an action plan is a good idea.
I think I’ll be able to come out with a better end result in my second year as I will now know to start planning as soon as possible and not to change my idea last minute. I also personally believe that I could’ve worked more on my blog. This was down to my poor time keeping and not really knowing what to say. I would’ve liked to have done more in the time that I gave myself but there’s nothing more I can do. In my second year, I really want to focus more on my blog work and going into depth about the entire editing process. This will allow me to then further my skills and be able to explain how I did certain things.
This project has made me come to terms that I don’t work well under pressure. This may be because I don’t think 6 weeks is enough to create a large project. I know changing my idea didn’t help with the whole time element and I could’ve planned better. I used the time I gave myself as best as I could but I think the whole concept of my final piece wasn’t the best. I don’t think my idea was ambitious enough nor do I think my final piece is any good, whether thats because its my own piece of work and I’m being very critical about it or it just really isn’t the best I could’ve done. I set the bar for my aims too high with the time frame I had which was stupid of me to do. I should’ve given myself a goal and known I would’ve been able to achieve better. Because of all the little things I didn’t do to my best of abilities, I now know for second year that I need to prepare for every little thing that could go wrong.
I set myself targets along the way, such as getting these parts edited by this day and so on. I tried to improve my skill set by doing something I hadn’t done before, which was make a mockumentary. Throughout planning the whole concept of my mockumentary, I researched What We Do in the Shadows and The Office. This helped me gain an idea of what a mockumentary looks like and what makes them funny. Sadly, I didn’t really get this effect with in my mockumemtary and that really upset me but I know for next time how to improve and how to present my work better. The hardest thing I faced within this project, would have to be coming up with the original project proposal in the first place. I found this difficult because even though I’m creative, I get an idea in my head and I have no idea how to make it become a reality without it being not as good as I expected. That’s why I really struggled with this project because thing’s didn’t go how I wanted them too. I did my best to overcome it by changing the style of mockumentary I wanted to do and try to work with it that way but even then It wasn’t what I thought. This really effected my mindset and didn’t fully allow me to achieve what I wanted but none the less, I’m still quite happy with my piece.
El's Final Major Project Blog 