Evaluation

 I am evaluating my work throughout unit 2. I joined the media course a few months late, so this did effect my work, meaning I had things to catch up on as well as taking part in the current work.
 I work well under direction, I find I work better this way than independently because if I am told what to do, and understand it, I will just get on and do it. When working on things independently I sometimes struggle to keep up and understand what I am doing. With the more creative and artistic things, I work very well on my own and I really enjoy doing this, as I feel confident and comfortable in this area. But when it comes to articulating myself and doing the more technical side of the work, I struggle more. When I worked as part of a team, I found that sometimes I worked really well, but other times I wouldn't put in as much as I could. When doing the practical work, like filming I worked well within the group and got myself very involved. But when it came to the editing and computer work I would sometimes take a back seat and not contribute as much as I could have done.
 My creative skills are very good, I don't struggle for ideas and I really enjoy it, which I think shows in my work. So when working on something that involves artistic input and creative ability I will try my very best to make it as good as it can possibly be. Whereas when I am working on things that I am less confident with, the technology, I don't work as accurately, and I will settle for just getting it done to an acceptable standard, instead of doing my very best. This continues with meeting deadlines, although I would spend more time on the creative side of things, I would often miss deadlines for the less creative things. I was very much in my comfort zone with the materials we used for our music video, so the clothing and make up, I put lots of thought into and had a lot of ideas about. I was also fairly confident using the camera, tripod and lighting, which was vital to our video, as it was mainly filmed using a green screen.
 When it came to sharing tasks, for example, editing the music video, I could sometimes let the other person do the majority of the work, if I didn't feel comfortable in that area. But then if I felt it was something I could do I would work really well and share the work equally with whoever I was working with. I feel I did support other team members during this unit and evaluate their work, using constructive criticism and positive feedback.
 Towards the start of the course I had extra help to catch up and learn the skills that I needed, I felt this helped an awful lot. I learned a lot about the technical side to things, for example, setting up a tripod and attaching a camera to it. Also things like editing footage in Final Cut, and using effects on clips to create a final piece of work to a high standard. I think I could improve my media skills by spending some time learning how to use editing programs such as Final Cut in more detail. I could do this by watching tutorials on YouTube, also sitting by a classmate and watching how they use the programs would help me.