Media Project
LEARNING REFLECTION
Name: Priscilla Chang
Date: Friday, January 25th, 2013
Unit/class: Before We Were Free Unit/Social Studies
Project/Activity: Media Project
What Did I Learn?
3 Things you learned:
I learned how to play around with iMovie more, and how to use the media to express my opinions or do a project. I am not a technology geek or a person who likes playing around with machines, in fact, I am not really good with machines and technology. Therefore, for me, this project was a good chance for me to play around with iMovie and technology or the media and learn a lot about those. Another thing that I learned was how different advertisements can be depending on the creator. For the second element of the project, I decided to make an advertisement for supporting/going against Rafael Trujillo. I thought making an advertisement supporting Trujillo would be easier to make, so I made my advertisement supporting Trujillo. When I went to class the day the project was due and looked through other people's projects, I was surprised. Even though people were trying to persuade others or make an advertisement based on the same idea, I didn't realize how different the advertisements would be before I actually saw the different projects. The third thing that I learned was a bit of how the advertising making people would have felt when they were making and planning the advertisement out. Making an advertisement on something that you totally disagree on... It's a hard thing. For this project, I just did the advertisement for supporting Trujillo because I thought it would be easier than going against Trujillo, not because I really thought supporting a dictator was a moral thing to do. I absolutely disagree with the idea of even having a dictator rule the country that I live in.
2 Things that were difficult:
One thing that was difficult was completing the project. On the week that the project was due, we had a lot of homework and tests and other projects because it was the last week before the trimester 1 grades came out. Because the teachers needed to put every grade in before that Friday or something, and they had to update the gradebook, the teachers were just assigning loads of homework, assignments, tests, quizzes, etc. Due to that, we were overloaded with a lot of homework. So in result, I had to procrastinate without a choice, and then I happened to start the whole project from scratch the day before the project was due. Another thing that was difficult was looking for music and background themes that would fit the topic and the purpose of the advertisement. Matching the music and editing it so that the music wouldn't have an awkward pause was hard to do because I haven't done much editing before, and all of the projects that needed iMovie and editing were done by another member of my group; I did the research or the collecting information portion, and one of my group members would edit the film.
1 question you still have, or 1 challenge that still remains:
One challenge that still remains is being familiar with the iMovie system. Although I have been working on the project with iMovie, I still don't know a lot of what iMovie can do and its functions.
How Did I Learn This Information or Skill?
Explain at least 1 real life reason to know this information, or be able to do this skill:
One real life reason to know this information, or be able to do this skill later on would be making a presentation or a movie. Because I became a little bit more familiar with the iMovie system and how it works,
What would be a better way than this assignment to show what you learned or to demonstrate this skill?:
A better way than this assignment to show what I learned or to demonstrate this skill could have been just doing a debate competition like activity in class, or having a tangible project as an assignment. Having the project digitally isn't a good idea because you don't know when your USB is lost, just like mine was lost just a few days ago, you don't have access to your project anymore.
What did I find interesting about this assignment?
I found playing around with technology interesting, and also, how different people's opinions can vary interesting about this assignment.
Name: Priscilla Chang
Date: Friday, January 25th, 2013
Unit/class: Before We Were Free Unit/Social Studies
Project/Activity: Media Project
What Did I Learn?
3 Things you learned:
I learned how to play around with iMovie more, and how to use the media to express my opinions or do a project. I am not a technology geek or a person who likes playing around with machines, in fact, I am not really good with machines and technology. Therefore, for me, this project was a good chance for me to play around with iMovie and technology or the media and learn a lot about those. Another thing that I learned was how different advertisements can be depending on the creator. For the second element of the project, I decided to make an advertisement for supporting/going against Rafael Trujillo. I thought making an advertisement supporting Trujillo would be easier to make, so I made my advertisement supporting Trujillo. When I went to class the day the project was due and looked through other people's projects, I was surprised. Even though people were trying to persuade others or make an advertisement based on the same idea, I didn't realize how different the advertisements would be before I actually saw the different projects. The third thing that I learned was a bit of how the advertising making people would have felt when they were making and planning the advertisement out. Making an advertisement on something that you totally disagree on... It's a hard thing. For this project, I just did the advertisement for supporting Trujillo because I thought it would be easier than going against Trujillo, not because I really thought supporting a dictator was a moral thing to do. I absolutely disagree with the idea of even having a dictator rule the country that I live in.
2 Things that were difficult:
One thing that was difficult was completing the project. On the week that the project was due, we had a lot of homework and tests and other projects because it was the last week before the trimester 1 grades came out. Because the teachers needed to put every grade in before that Friday or something, and they had to update the gradebook, the teachers were just assigning loads of homework, assignments, tests, quizzes, etc. Due to that, we were overloaded with a lot of homework. So in result, I had to procrastinate without a choice, and then I happened to start the whole project from scratch the day before the project was due. Another thing that was difficult was looking for music and background themes that would fit the topic and the purpose of the advertisement. Matching the music and editing it so that the music wouldn't have an awkward pause was hard to do because I haven't done much editing before, and all of the projects that needed iMovie and editing were done by another member of my group; I did the research or the collecting information portion, and one of my group members would edit the film.
1 question you still have, or 1 challenge that still remains:
One challenge that still remains is being familiar with the iMovie system. Although I have been working on the project with iMovie, I still don't know a lot of what iMovie can do and its functions.
How Did I Learn This Information or Skill?
Explain at least 1 real life reason to know this information, or be able to do this skill:
One real life reason to know this information, or be able to do this skill later on would be making a presentation or a movie. Because I became a little bit more familiar with the iMovie system and how it works,
What would be a better way than this assignment to show what you learned or to demonstrate this skill?:
A better way than this assignment to show what I learned or to demonstrate this skill could have been just doing a debate competition like activity in class, or having a tangible project as an assignment. Having the project digitally isn't a good idea because you don't know when your USB is lost, just like mine was lost just a few days ago, you don't have access to your project anymore.
What did I find interesting about this assignment?
I found playing around with technology interesting, and also, how different people's opinions can vary interesting about this assignment.