Posts Tagged ‘reflection’

Lab: Participation Assessment

Tuesday, May 22nd, 2012

In the lab today we graded ourselves for the 30% participation. I gave myself a Distinction because when grading myself in a situation like that, while I might want the HD grade, I can’t bring myself to grade it to myself. So, why did I give myself a D? Well, for the first 8 weeks of semester I was very much on top of things. I attended all the lectures, did all the readings in advance and posted blog entries as often as possible. I deserve an HD for that. But, from week 8 to 12 I petered out. I posted less on the blog, I attended fewer lectures and only caught up on some of them via audio recordings. I spent more time working on the major project than keeping my evidence of participation up. So I figured I should lower my score to a D.

But thinking back on it now, I was on top of things for more than half of the semester. So maybe that does deserve an HD. Too late now I guess.

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Week 6 Video Sketches

Friday, April 6th, 2012

There were only two videos again this week, Things that quicken my heart and Small things worth noticing. I think I like the heart-quickening video the most because I like the way I did it. I made do with my wardrobe, which has a collage of images that mean something to me. I used a handful of those images to symbolise things that quicken my heart. I was actually going to do the same for Small Things but I decided against it and focused on the things in my room that make small sounds.

So, there you have it. All of my sketch videos are completed, ready for Korsakow.

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Week 5 Video Sketches

Tuesday, April 3rd, 2012

Of the two videos I made this week, Me without me in it and Family without family in it, my favourite is Me. In fact, I think Me might be the best video I’ve made of all of them for Integrated Media. I feel like it’s extremely successful in describing me without showing me and I also think it’s visually and aurally stimulating. I wanted to utilise sound effectively (for both videos actually, but oh well) and I definitely succeeded on Me.

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Week 3 Video Sketches

Monday, March 19th, 2012

Let’s recap, briefly, my personal criteria for the videos so far.

Week one:

  • Short clips of objects cut together.
  • Complementary.

    • Week two:

  • Use different cuts.
  • Use different subject matter.

    • Week three:

  • All one “story.”
  • Be able to put together to create one video.

    • I have so far achieved all of these criteria that I set for myself when given the video tasks. I like the idea I came up with for week three. I thought the dogs would be a good choice because they always get wet at the park so the difference between travelling toward and travelling from is more obvious. I’m disappointed that the quality came out so poor, so I’m uploading the full three videos stitched together in HD as well.

    My favourite of the three is There because the action is more fun, but I like To and From equally because I think the angle is interesting. Too bad I’m not very smooth with filming while walking. The finished product kind of reminded me of this lovely video.

    P.S. The music in all of the videos was made by my boyfriend. His music project is called Álfheimr.

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    Week 2 Video Sketches

    Tuesday, March 13th, 2012

    I struggled a little with this week’s videos. Ideas for Blue and Red came to me pretty quickly but I was mostly at a loss for Yellow.

    I said the week before that I wanted them all to have their own character and I think I at least achieved that. Blue, the first video, was filmed on my MacBook Pro and featured a lot of cuts plus I was in the video myself. The second, Red, was one 30-second shot of red things with action involved. The last, Yellow, was two 15-second shots stuck together, almost still-life but not quite.

    I like that I was able to achieve different things with them, but I think my favourite is Blue. It was fun and I like the cuts in it. I would have preferred they be faster, but I didn’t have enough blue clothes for that, so I did what I could.

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