* Successful time management

Yes, it is. Why i put this on the top, because i think it is the worst aspect which works really well for my personal. Well, thanks for clear and concise course guide of PP2 by the way. In comparison with past semesters’ arrangement, this time i finished everything with a stable peace, all individual works were submitted on time, they were not a rush job or into mess before the deadline. I feel i have to do like that, because it is my third year, i need a correct attitude to treat study as seriously. In particular, putting group cooperation stage aside, the early stage for individual work i entirely followed the timetable which was planned at the week 1. UnFortunately, our group shooting was not went smoothly, owing to we have similar personality and life habits, which let us could meet other frequently to fix plan as soon as possible. Basically, we followed the general timeline well, including book gears,draw storyboard, meetings, modify, and final decision. Every step was walked one by one. However, the contact with TSS staff was the most “surprised” step of our whole project, i think we respected their thoughts and suggestion, anyway, the communication between us and them was not successful at the beginning, this costed a lot of time,but experienced a long term and continues conversation, they cooperated with us finally.To sum up, the time management is successful if look the whole semester, at least i sumbited everything( individual)on time, and  i would like to give myself CR.

* Worked successfully as team member

In terms of this point, i also like to give myself D, because i contributed extra efforts to producer and director position as well. When we meet trouble in communication with STT, i kept positive attitude to solve problem, i have never give up. In fact, i worked with Tracy more than 4 times, and also she is one of my best friend in daily life. We have 3 people in our group, it seems like more big than other groups, but it really shows advantages, the more hands, the more efforts, and the more contribution. All of us can speak Chinese, this makes us communicate more easier and understand each other well. Despite the culture gap, the factor of language is a obvious barrier when i cooperated with local students before. Although i can get along with local students well and finish the project at the end, while the process is not easy. Therefore, this time, 3 people who have same background and same language, it is no doubt that we will not waste this chance to cooperate and help each other. More important is we have same goal and purpose, we love fashion and arts, we are passionate about this task, of course, all of us have full energy when we started. In addition, we are in the same camp.

* Excellent problem solving skills

To be honest, i do not think there is any extra problem will happen for this subject, until the last 6 mins doc came, i realised things were not such great as what i imagined before. The main problem for us was the negotiation with the SST. We thought Grace was happy to provide venue and corporation with us, however, the conversation about talking some preparation work was not functional, and the process was so slowly, we want to finalise and settle down everything in a short term, because the long term struggle would destroy energy and passion about this project. Although we understand what they Stuff were concerning about, therefore, we changed our ideas again and again until meet the needs and made it satisfied.After all, this work we need their support and cooperation, really needed. It necessary to have a optimistic attitude to face every times’s refuse and “said no”. Well, i would like to give myself D for this point, for my continuous brainstorm  and ideas contribution.

* Took responsibility for role

As what we distributed each depends on everyone’s talents and willings, my role is camera assistant and production designer. Our initial idea was panic theme, as a production designer, i took responsibility to think what stuffs and props should be included and prepared them, obviously, it was a panic, i recommend we decide a suburb location, a grassland where has woody table and a big tree, we figured our Albert park has such conditions. But changes always walks faster than plan, because we did not get what we imagined from Grace, we have to find and book venue by ourselves , therefore, we changed a lot our original ideas. Therefore, in order to prepare and make my position works well, i have to keep a sensitive mind to follow director and situation’s shifts, what they want, what they want the films looks like, what the location do not have, i would fix up and make it looks similar, i could not make it perfect, but i tried my best to reduce the distance between director’s imagine and realistic looking. However, in comparison with the role of director and camera person my role is a little bit not such crucial as others, so i think myself pass grade is fair.

In conclusion, put aside some objective causes, such as the limits of the film theme, the factors should be included from the studio, our subjective actions have achieved what we expected at the end. For myself, i took an glance of my experience from this semester, it was a ending, but it also equals to a new start for a further life journey. Past things illustrates my weakness and strengthens, advantages and disadvantages, I should have a optimistic heart to remedy my defect about knowledges and skills ( technical aspects) and make use of my talents in creation and the sense of design and music. In a word, i would like to give my self a CR generally.

I did 3 years sound person role in my university life, sound for audio, for music editing, for mixer box operation, and the final time is for seminar. I have to explain here, at the beginning of the seminar, the sound is good, but after the introducing guests, something wrong happened with the mic. I adjusted all the microphones before the start, the testing practices are all good. I think the audios can hear it clear is more important than what the camera recoding. One of my group member turned the sound off when the host was talking to the Bruce, he said what he heard from the camera was too loud, then he turned it softer, but he turned off the wrong button, this is why there was a short time the sound of one microphone was gone. When i received the feedback from our tutor, it says the sound is still a problem, i really feel sorry and guilty, also shame about that. I know there is no excuse, i have to face it, my position has to took the responsibility of that. I know i have a long way to go, whether be a sound person or be a adverting stuff. Fortunately, we still get HD grade, my mistakes did not destroy our “well-done”job.

I did not attend all, i absented from classes for 2 times, so also twice for group meetings, this is the fact.

As what i mentioned previously, i am not very good at open a communication with strangers, i am still shy about somethings. But i have improved a lot during the 3 years, more confident , more ambitious, and more active. The change of my personality is the most obvious point what i learnt from western education system. I know i will be a media person in the future, although will not in western countries, but the good ability to networking and social is functional in every place, correct and right skills are same in every place in the world.

To sum up, i am happy to give myself CR.