[REFLECTION] - Blogging Health Check 1

Blogging Health Check 1

After reading this note on my progress so far in Media Studies, I am very disappointed with myself as I know personally that I am capable of much much more. But this has now motivated me to up my game and work 5 times harder than I did last year and also to leave my lazy behaviour behind if I want to achieve the grade I believe I deserve which is an A.

So far in this coursework it is apparent that I am not motivated to do well. I started this year off confident that I will do well and that I can definitely achieve the A grade that I want. However when it came down to the Pitch and working as a group this motivation and confidence went down the drain. This could be for a number of reasons;

1. Firstly, I stepped out of my Lastmin.com phase and decided to work on my parts of the pitch as early as possible to make is easier for other members of the group, however I was not able to do some of my parts of the pitch without information from the others. This meant that I had to rush it and even take on other parts that where not assigned to me, which means I lacked adding as much detail as possible. And as I didn't really know anyone in my group it's been hard for me to step out of my shell and actually push them to do the work.
2. Secondly, there was a lack of communication within our group, and we're all too nice to actually take charge when things are not working out. This is why the storyboard didn't really make sense to anyone, even myself as I had created it in a rush with whatever ideas I could come up with at 1am.
3. Individually, we are all laid back so we don't feel the stress of getting down to do the work, or at some point's we are perfectionist and have this sort of fear that our product may not come out the way we want it to, hence why it's taken us time to do something i.e. filming.
4. Lastly, (which I think was the major problem) is that we took our time to get down to filming. Every time we decided we would film we ended up cancelling as something came up and all members of the group were not available or we didn't know where would be filming or when. I think after we start filming there's a possibility that I will gain confidence in producing a masterpiece, but for now my confidence is really weak.  

TARGETS:

• Organise myself to keep up to date with blogging (I am actually really surprised at how unorganised I am, usually I'm really organised with details.)
• Tweak my part of the pitch blogs, by using different forms of ICT as there's a lot of posts with just text. 
• Catch up on the missing blogs - See checklist on what is missing. 
• Use more and a range of technology in the upcoming posts.