Reflection - How'd I do?

     Hello, welcome to my final blog for my journey on making the Me Commercial! Starting off I have a few main points on this journey that stood out to me:

    Learning Technology:

A large part of this experience was learning a lot of skills and general information. One of the skills I had to learn was how to use Adobe Premiere. A lot of what I learned was the basics as Adobe wasn't as straightforward as I thought it was. This led to me watching a lot of tutorials and "how-to's." This was extremely frustrating as I struggled to understand what certain clicks or "files" did. I ended up learning a lot of what I think are important basics, such as importing files and using video effects and transitions. Another skill I learned/ironed was file management. I've never been one to manage files or make folders or anything of the sort. This made me struggle to find what I wanted or use for the video. This whole process though has made me become more diligent when it comes to making sure I have everything I need file-wise in an organized place.

    Learning about doing Projects:

This project not only made me learn new technologies but also taught me more about how to do projects. One thing was writing down my ideas before attempting them. Usually, I would just come up with an idea and immediately put it into effect. This ends up with me scrapping a lot of ideas. It also causes me to redo a certain aspect of my project over and over again. For this project instead, I thought harder on the ideas that I did and wrote down everything on my mind if I needed to make a creative decision. This helped fasten the process and wasted less time. Another, skill I improved upon was accepting something won't come out perfectly. I have nack for wanting something to be exactly what I envision in my head, which is usually "perfect." This makes me hesitant to accept a part of a project as done. However, I started to accept parts of my project even though they weren't how I exactly wanted.

    The next project:

This project has got me to think about the future ones for this class. I've been trying to do things that will leave me more prepared for future assignments. Some of these I talked about in the past paragraphs, and others which I haven't. Some are putting my foot down on people in my personal life. I'm a people pleaser so I end up sacrificing my time for others and I end up with no time for myself or school. This project, on the other hand, has well, forced my hand. I stopped helping to move and told my Mother to ask for my brother's help as I knew he was grown enough to help. I'm hoping that all the skills and knowledge from this project stick with me into future ones.

   

Thank you for reading my current thoughts and reflection of this project!