Week 1 (6 Mar 2023 - 12 Mar 2023)

 

Monday:

Today was when we were introduced to the brief. So to start creating ideas for my FMP I created a mind map for all the outcomes we could go towards. I was feeling quite excited to start the FMP as I knew that this was a big project and that I had a lot of creative freedom over it. However I did feel nervous as I knew that I wouldn’t stick to one idea. It was quite good to start a new project with a lot of time, but I knew that the time would go by fast, so I had to work just as fast. For some more ideas generation I could have asked a few friends about ideas they had or would have done. I might do this on Tuesday, so that I can solidify my idea and find a strong one.

 

Tuesday:

This day was also focused on ideas generation. I had taken into consideration the idea I had on Monday of asking some friends what they had come up with. It was a good thing to do as I had gathered quite a bit of information as some people were focusing on mental health, music or a passion of theirs. After doing this I had decided that I could do a blend of all these things but go into a pathway that many had not said which was a performance video as it would mean that it would be different from the others. I feel like I could have also asked what ideas they had outside the FMP that they were making, such as another idea they had for another outcome. 

 

Wednesday:

Wednesday was when I had finally decided on my desired outcome, which was a performance video. I had come to this decision because I felt that I had the most ideas for this and that it would be unique as it was something that not many people were doing. It was good to finally have my idea solidified even if it took a few days to get there. I had figured that I was pretty good at creating short term videos which holds a strong meaning for me but I possibly feel behind on my editing skills which I’m hoping to strengthen by going into this outcome. I could have also asked any of the tutors what outcome they think would benefit me the most with the FMP that gives me both a strong result and a bit of a challenge.

 

Thursday:

This was when I started working towards my context page by completing the rationale part in as much detail as I could put into it so that I don’t fall behind in any of the areas. It had taken a while to complete it but I wanted to have it at a high standard. It was quite good to look back on what projects I had completed in the year and how I had certain areas that aren’t as strong as I thought, such as the evaluation section. I found out that I had done quite well in research which was surprising to me since I had always thought this was weaker. I think I could have written this out a bit better by using a programme such as Grammarly, which I might do next time, so that my grammar and clarity is up to par with my work. I may end up doing this after fully completing the context page.

 

Friday:

On Friday, I was mainly completing the topic section of my context page but whilst I was filling this out I had felt that I was missing something with this project. I thought that perhaps it was not going to show my full ability and what I can achieve within a period of time. This slightly discouraged me and I started to doubt what I was planning to do and messaged some family members and friends who I knew could help me find the right path to take and that will encourage me to have a strong outcome that I will enjoy making. I think I could have spoken to my teachers about this, but due to not being in school until Monday the next week I ended up speaking to other people about it.

 

Saturday:

Today I spoke to my uncle who has had experience within the media industry. He allowed me to explore more areas other than a music video where I had lots of ideas but in a documentary I perhaps only had one. Some key points he brought up was that ‘there doesn’t need to be a beginning, middle and end to the story but maybe some of it’ and that despite what outcome I choose to go into, ‘there needs to be some sort of attachment to the project whether physical or emotional’. This led me to think about having a project that connects me with the majority of the world.

 

Sunday:

I spoke to a family friend who is an experienced photographer as I felt that I could do a photo series instead as it was another one of my stronger projects I completed this year. She told me that ‘the photos do not need to have a single subject, so it can be multiple telling the same story’. I brought up to her that I wanted to include an artistic style or music as they are what I am also passionate about. The ideas she gave back was that I could literally paint onto the subject if it is a person or edit the photos to include an artistic style, such as photographer Tom Keelan. She brought up that I could focus it on an experience such as the COVID lockdown, and this led me to think of doing a photo series reflecting on the lockdown.

 

Week 2 (13 Mar 2023 - 19 Mar 2023)

 

Monday:

After having a talk with my tutor about changing my outcome to a photo series about COVID-19 in lieu of what I spoke to my family friend about, they had also agreed that a photo series would be good for me and that it would let me challenge myself in how to express people’s feelings. I was feeling a lot better now than when starting as I felt that I had a better idea of what I wanted to do and what the concept was. I figured that using my time more wisely and reconsidering all the possible things I could do was best. I think next time, I would spend more time on deciding my outcome and thinking about what it is I actually want to achieve.

 

Tuesday:

Since I had changed my outcome, today was mainly focused on rewriting my topic as it is no longer a Kendrick Lamar song. It took a while to do as I wanted to complete it to the same or better standard than I did before. As much as I didn't want to rewrite this section I knew I had to because of how important it is for my FMP. Despite that, it was good to rewrite this and look over what I wanted to do for my project and know that I was more passionate about it compared to the other one. What I did differently compared to last time is that I added three goals that I wanted to achieve so that I knew what I wanted to create.

 

Wednesday: 

Today all I did was write the outcome and purpose section of my context page. There was a lot to write as I wanted to make sure I went into as much detail as I could and even included some inspiration that I had taken from. It was a bit difficult to explain why I had come up with this outcome because there was a lot of thinking process behind it and also with me switching my outcome multiple times. However, I managed to figure out how to write it in the way that shows what I wanted to do and why. I feel like I could have added some more inspiration into this section however I may put this into a different section such as the documents in my mood board.

 

Thursday:

Thursday's work was quite easy as I knew who I wanted to target my outcomes towards as this has been the same target audience throughout all of my different ideas. However it was a bit difficult to explain my target audience on the context page as I only had an age range. To overcome this I went into depth as to which people may view it more compared to others and why. Additionally today I started to find images that would reflect what I want my outcome to look like and compile them into my mood board.

 

Friday:

This day was when I started to write up my research and started to go through some of my older paragraphs on my context page to ensure that the grammar and spelling is all correct. Writing the research section of my context page was a bit 50/50 as I knew what I wanted to do for my primary research but for secondary research I wasn't too sure. After asking some of my friends what they were doing for their research I figured that I could also use some government websites that talk about mental health and other topics during the COVID lockdown. I possibly could have also asked some of my teachers as to what I could do for my secondary research as they know the example quite well and what to do to get the highest grades.

 

Week 3 (20 Mar 2023 - 26 Mar 2023)

 

Monday:

Today I had completed the obstacle part of my context page as well as my documents section. I felt good as I knew the majority of the writing section had been done and all I had left to do was go through it and check it. To check my work, what I had done was put it into Grammarly which is a website to help with spelling, grammar and all of those areas. I made sure that the sentence made sense still and had proper grammar. Project proposals coming up I figured that it would be good to utilise some of the free time I had and start to create my project proposal. So what I had started doing was to look for certain templates that I could use to demonstrate the theme of my FMP.

 

Tuesday:

This day was a continuation of yesterday which was, continuing to create my project proposal PowerPoint. With the PowerPoint I made sure to include as little writing as I could and ensured that I could speak about each of the PowerPoints and answer any questions people had. I also included one of my mood boards as I was aware that some people are more visual rather than reading learners. After completing my project proposal I felt good and prepared to present it to my class the next day. Next time if I had more time I feel like I would have been able to design my own PowerPoint rather than using a template I found online.

 

Wednesday:

After I had completed my project proposal yesterday, today was the day I had to present it in front of the class. I felt a bit nervous doing it however I knew once I had got over the initial scare and started speaking I would become more comfortable. After presenting it, my teacher and some of my classmates gave me some feedback and questions to which they had said my presentation skills were very strong and my concept was good. I think if I were to present my project proposal again or another time I would have taken notes or recorded what people had said about my project or what they had asked.

 

Thursday:

Thursday today was when I was filling out my project proposal form which took a bit of time as I didn't know what information I needed as I had to keep it to a certain word limit. I figured that the best way to do this was to write all the information I think I needed and then use a word counting website to lower the words until I get within the word limit. I could have also asked my teacher what information I should keep and what information I should get rid of as they know what information would count as unneeded. Next time I think I may give what I wrote to a random person and ask them if it makes sense on what I'm trying to say. 

 

Friday:

For Friday there wasn't much work as I had some other things to complete during the day however I managed to complete my primary research form where I ask people what type of activities and how they felt during lockdown. I felt quite good doing this because I was in line with my timetable and I knew if I continued at this pace then I would not have to fall behind. When I was starting to create my form I figured that Google forms was a good way to do this as it was able to give me the information back to me in an easy readable form. I feel like I could have asked more closed-ended questions as I asked quite a few open-ended ones but due to the nature of the questionnaire I knew I had to have more open-ended questions. I think next time I would have an even mix of the two so that I can get enough data for both open and closed ended.

 

Week 4 (27 Mar 2023 - 2 Apr 2023)

 

Monday:

Today, the majority of my work was aimed at moving my FMP from google slides to wix. I had designed the webpages in a way that I think reflects my creative style and used a color scheme I found using the following website: https://coolors.co/palettes/trending. I had also made each tab I needed for this FMP (Context, Research, Pre-production, Production, Reflective Log and Bibliography) and made sure that all of the sections I needed were there. It felt good to finally move to wix as I prefer making my work there as I have experience in web design and I love creating websites that I like the layout of. I feel like I could have made my website a bit less simplified but I feel for this project simple is better. Perhaps next time I will spend more time designing the website, if I have time, so that it can reflect the project better.

 

Tuesday:

Tuesday I was focused on recreating my primary research form. The reason I decided to do this was because I felt the one I made at first wasn’t beneficial towards my project and that it didn’t ask the right questions. It took a while to complete the new one as I didn’t really know what questions to ask and what I should have focused on. However I had asked my mum what type of questions to ask, and she brought up that focusing it towards the experience and how people felt during it so I can get a general understanding about people’s experiences. I feel like if I was to do this again, I would have looked into some examples of surveys/questionnaires that other people did for theirs. 

 

Wednesday:

For this day, there wasn't much I did as I had started to feel burnt out from doing this project. The main things I had done was send my form I created yesterday to my friends and tidy up some of the grammar and spelling errors in my context page. It felt quite annoying to not be doing anything as I felt super unproductive. I think next time I will make a day to day timetable so that I can follow it and not become overwhelmed so early on. 

 

Thursday:

Continuing on from Wednesday, whilst still feeling burnt out, all I had really done was look up some websites for my secondary research and also some tutorials that I could follow along with on youtube. I analysed these videos so that I don't have to consistently keep coming back to the videos and rewatch them, I can just read what I had written and create it for myself. It was quite helpful to look through these and I felt good about finding the tutorials so that I can edit my work if its not something I really like when the images are raw. 

 

Friday:

I started to create my other form so that I can make my website targeted towards my target audience. I did this so that I can ensure that all my work is aimed towards the correct audience and that they will enjoy it. I think I might do this in the future more often as I know I am quite indecisive so this can help solidify my choice whilst also making sure that what I choose is relevant to my audience. 

 

Week 5 (3 Apr 2023 - 9 Apr 2023)

 

Monday:

Today I still felt that burnt out feeling I felt so what I had mainly done was write up the secondary research where I looked up different things that people did during lockdown and how they felt at this time. It helped with my project as I was able to understand more about what people had done and also what to include in 

 

Tuesday:

For Tuesday all I had done today was write up some secondary research in terms of what music video I took some inspiration from and also some image analysis where I looked into some of Tom Keelan's work and deciphered it. This was quite an enjoyable task as these were both things I had enjoyed watching or looking at but it did take a lot longer than expected since I got slightly distracted by watching a lot of music videos. I figured that despite music videos having no relation to what my project will be, it is still a good idea to take some inspiration from there as music videos can contain some good stills. 

 

Wednesday:

Wednesday was probably one of the worst days for my burn out as I didn’t do anything today. Looking back on it I regret it as I know I will have barely any time towards the end to complete my work. Next time I will try not to do this and even if it is just editing some of what I have written then at least I have done something productive. 

 

Thursday:

Following the day where I did nothing, today I was making sure that I did something today. So what I had done was write up the findings I had from my primary research form about lockdown and people’s experience. It was a long process to go through but it wasn’t too bad as I started to get out of the burn out feeling I had for a while. I think next time I will analyse this more as I did explain each question but not in as much detail as I hoped to have gone into. 

 

Friday:

Today I was mainly writing up the second part of my primary research where I had asked people questions about how to design my website. It was quite helpful to have gone through this as I got some interesting ideas that I think I will incorporate into the final design. I think next time I will do this again as this did help me with creating my final website. 

 

Week 6 (10 Apr 2023 - 16 Apr 2023)

 

Monday:

On Monday, I was creating my contingency plan and my location recce. These were quite difficult to do as I didn’t really know what house or what park I was going to shoot at, but I realised after a point that these despite what area I go to they will have the same base issues and things for the location recce. Since I didn’t know what area I was filming in I had left all those blank but ready for me to just input where I had filmed and the details. 

 

Tuesday:

Today was quite a busy day in college as we had done a task where we learn to mask different videos on top of each other so that we have multiple instances of the same person. This was quite beneficial for my project because I wanted to mask people into different scenarios whilst being in the same image/video. Alongside this, what I had done today was my photoshoot plan. It was quite simple to do as I had everything planned out and I knew what shots I wanted to get. 

 

Wednesday:

For Wednesday I made the risk assessment. This took a bit of time for me to start as I didn’t really know what I had to put, but I spoke to my uncle who was able to aid me and explain what types of issues can happen and what to put where. It was helpful for me to speak to my uncle about this as he is experienced in the industry and was able to help me. I think next time to help with making any of the other documents I will ask my uncle for help again as he knows what information I need to put down and what I don’t. 

 

Thursday:

Thursday was when I started to design the layout of the house I wanted to make in the sims as it is the easiest way for me to create it. It was fun to do this as I haven’t played the sims in a while and it was refreshing to play something and to do something different than what I have been doing for the past 6 weeks or so. I think if I were to do this again I would definitely create the house in the sims again since its a game I already am accustomed to so it doesn't need me to learn any new techniques. 

 

Friday:

decided to change second outcome to a podcast

Today I decided to change my secondary outcome from a 2nd photo series to a podcast. The reason behind this is because recently I have been listening to podcasts whilst doing my work and it gave me some inspiration to do this. So I messaged some of my friends asking if any wanted to do a podcast with me to which 3 out of 5 had said yes! I was excited to record the podcast as I have been listening to a lot of podcasts since early 2019 and it's a big part of what I do in my spare time. 

 

Week 7 (17 Apr 2023 - 23 Apr 2023)

 

Monday:

For today, I did a test shot with my brother in my own house. I used the images to learn the interface of photoshop more and how to create a surreal effect by just using normal portraiture images. It was a good way to learn the tools and layout of photoshop as it wasn’t really a program I have used before. The edited photo was a bit of a hit and miss since I really liked what I had done with the eyes, however, the rest of the face felt a bit empty so I tried to do something with the eyebrows, which didn't really work out in the end. I think next time I might use some face paint to manipulate the subject even more to include more on the face. 

 

Tuesday:

Today I created a contact sheet with all the shots I took yesterday with my brother and I said which shots I used and why. Looking back on this I realised there wasn’t really any use in them so I never ended up using them on my website. However, it was good practice for my actual shots so that I know how to layer it out and structure them. Next time, I might add the contact sheets anyway as even though I think they won’t be beneficial, it will help with my work. 

 

Wednesday:

I changed my mind again (what a surprise!). I decided that the house idea would be difficult to pull off as many were reluctant to shoot in their house and trying to create it using the studio would be extremely difficult. I felt a bit annoyed that I could no longer do the house idea as it was one of the better ideas I had. So what I’ve decided to do now is a photo series that demonstrates the different emotions that people went through during the COVID lockdown and how the same person can go through 2 completely opposite emotions throughout this time. 

 

Thursday:

Since I had changed my idea, I needed to change some of my research, mainly my image analysis. So I looked up some images that are meant to represent emotions that also don’t tell me which emotions are meant to be which. This helped me to understand how to represent different emotions and what the main things I need to do to be able to show the emotions I want correctly. Although it did take a bit of time, it helped me to go through this so that I can see strengths and weaknesses of each photo to show the emotions. 

 

Friday:

Friday, I decided to order face paint as I said earlier, it is so that it can help with having more things to edit and also to ensure that the emotion is shown correctly and not in any way misinterpreted. I also changed my context page especially as I had changed my idea multiple times and I want to make sure that I have everything correct in terms of my project and that my old ideas are not shown within this. It was annoying to go through the context page as I had quite a lot written for my previous idea and with my new one there wasn’t much that I put in compared to last time.

 

Week 8 (24 Apr 2023 - 30 Apr 2023)

 

Monday:

Today I recorded my Vox pop as that is the last part of my primary research that I needed to complete. I plan to edit this during my time at Mountview so that I am not wasting lots of time and that I can ensure I am creating work whilst I’m there. The Vox pop went quite smoothly and well as I managed to get 5 people to answer my questions and also record it without having to book the studio. I think next time, I won’t book the studio to do this as there are spare rooms around the media department and also the school in general. 

 

Tuesday:

creating my website to display my final outcome

This day, what I had mainly done was create my website to display my final outcome. I designed it based on what the form had said, although my favourite items didn’t get chosen the most, I still made sure that they are all what was chosen the most and also in a way that I like them. I enjoyed this process as I’ve mentioned before. I like website design and it's a fun way for me to express myself and also my work.

 

Wednesday:

There wasn’t much done today as I had to get ready to go to south London so that I can prepare myself for the busy week ahead of me. However I managed to plan with different people to do shoots as soon as I get back so that I can just focus on editing. I knew I was behind schedule so the week where I am away, I planned to complete as much of the written work as possible alongside editing the Vox pop. For next time, I will try to avoid doing work experience during my time in the FMP so that I do not get distracted and have a ‘pause’ in my schedule.

 

Week at Mountview (27 Apr 2023 - 4 May 2023)

 

Thursday:

For this day, there was a lot of filming work done as I had a 9am-8pm day. Due to this long time spent on the film sets, I was really tired towards the end, but I managed to do some more secondary research where people don’t show their faces for podcasts and how they work around this challenge. This was quite easy for me to do as for all the podcasts I watch, there is at least one person that doesn’t show their face whilst others might do. 

 

Friday:

Again, I had a very busy day that was from 10am-8pm. I wasn’t as tired so I was able to correct my grammar on both my context page and also my research page. Additionally, I made sure that all my work has been updated and double checked that everything is there and not a single bit of my old work is there, especially with my primary research as I had written that for my old outcomes.

 

Monday:

I didn’t manage to get anything done today as I had planned to edit my Vox pop, but found out early on in the day that all the footage got deleted (hurray!). So in reality most of this day was spent panicking about what to do with my work and how I’m going to be able to re-record this as well as shooting my final outcome. My uncle however was able to help me calm down and told me that there is a way to restore the SD in case there is no chance I have them saved. If not I might have to record the Vox pops again but online rather than in person. 

 

Tuesday:

Here I had a slightly easier day at Mountview as it was a 9am-5pm day. Since I had quite a bit of time remaining, I ended up using the time to create my character using software on my phone. This was a therapeutic way of doing it as I find drawing and art a way to relieve stress and I needed it especially after the day I had on Monday. I based my character from a cartoon that I remembered watching a few years back and I liked the style as it was a mix of anime and cartoons.

 

Wednesday + Thursday:

Not much was done these days as well, as I had quite busy days filming and also going out with my family as I hadn’t seen them for a long time.

 

Week 9 (1 May 2023 - 7 May 2023)

 

Friday:

Friday I was making sure to plan every single day I had in the next two weeks so that I can get it all done by the deadline. I had a VERY busy few weeks ahead of me so I was stressing that I won’t get it all done but speaking to my mum helped me to remove some of the stress so that it doesn’t impact my health. I made sure that I had people who were ready to record Vox pops online just in case I had no time to record them in-person.

 

Week 10 (8 May 2023 - 14 May 2023)

 

Monday:

Today I managed to get Antonia's shoot done. I had planned to get more done but I was glad to get at least one shot out the way. As soon as I completed these I imported them straight into my google drive, alongside my BTS video I made, so that I can have access to these at home and not have to worry about not having the shots anymore. I think next time I might spend less time thinking about what exactly to do on the face and just ‘do now think later’ with the face paint.

 

Tuesday:

For Tuesday, I was re-recording the Vox pops. It was a tedious thing to do as I already knew I had done this before and I couldn’t ask the same amount of people so I had to cut it down to 4. I’m glad I was able to record it and get it over and done with. After that I started to do the shoot with Laquarn but I only had 30 minutes to do so. I’m thankful that I decided to do the ‘do now think later’ strategy as I made something I liked and I didn’t need to waste so much time. Now I managed to tick off half the things on my list and now only a half left to do. As mentioned before I made sure to make the contact sheets so that I can talk about the shots I didn’t use and why.

 

Wednesday:

Continuing on from my progress on Tuesday, I managed to get 2 more shoots done and now all that was left was to record the podcast. I got Ogulcan and Katie’s shoots done today and I had to stay after school for which I wasn’t really excited about as I had plans for after school but I was glad I did so that all the physical work was done. Once I was done I made the contact sheet. I think next time I may stay in school for a bit longer on my half days if those in the shoot do not mind. 

 

Thursday:

Thursday I had gotten quite ill so what I had done was eliminate the photos I didn’t want to use and say why such as lighting or the subject is not centred. I wrote on my website these reasons by color coding them and saying next to them what each color means. Next time, I want to go into more detail about a few photos and why I didn’t really like them or why I didn’t use them.

I was also well enough to start creating my form so that once all the editing of the photos was done, I can ask people to evaluate it.

 

Friday:

I felt a bit better on Friday after the day before, so I managed to record my podcast using Audacity. I originally planned to use adobe character animator to record it but it was a difficult software to learn and time was not on my hands. I tried with premiere pro but I did not like how I could still hear myself so I switched over to Audacity as it is a software that I have used for a long time so I am accustomed to it. If I did have more time however, I would have used it to learn the adobe character animator software and what it provides. 

I also was able to edit the Vox pop which didn’t take too long after the podcast recording and it was quite fun to edit it as I had used a soundtrack from a video game that many people my age enjoy.

 

Week 11 (15 May 2023 - 21 May 2023)

 

Monday:

Today I was focusing on editing Laquarn and Katie’s shoots. I added neon effects on 2/3 of Laquarn’s and on one of Katie’s. For Laquarn’s one I filmed how I edited the angry emotion images and explained what I did and how. I edited the video once I was done and uploaded it to YouTube so that it was ready for me to upload to my website which I couldn’t do with that long of a video due to the time limit on videos. I think next time I will record my voice whilst also recording my screen so that I don't have to do so many voice overs. One issue I did run into on this day was that my physical health was being impacted from the stress as I would get home and start passing out as if I had a sort of ‘stress induced narcolepsy’. So I might have to spend this week at home so that I can make sure all my work is being completed and that my physical health is not impacted so much or worsens.

 

Tuesday:

After deciding that for my physical health it was better to stay home rather than go into college, I started to work on editing Ogulcan’s shoot with multiple instances of himself. I also started to edit the image of the split face. These took a bit of time to do, especially the one with Ogulcan as I had to go through each image and remove the background which was a time consuming process. However in my mind I think I could have done an easier way around it rather than spending an hour removing the background for the images. Overall, I think the images turned out well and recording it was quite easy so that I can explain it after.

 

Wednesday:

On Wednesday, what I had done was upload the final edited images to my website so that I can present it on a clear and new website without people having to look at my work. Once I did that I sent my form I had made the week before to my friends so that they could evaluate my work and say what they liked and what they didn’t like about it. It was great to finally finish the editing process and upload all my work on time.

 

Thursday:

Today I was working on editing the BTS and preparing my website so that everything is on there and ready for the final submission and outcomes. I still need to edit the podcast and polish up some other areas but despite that it is mainly finished. I can wait for this project to be finished, so I no longer need to stress and feel like the world is against me. I think if I was to do this again I think I would definitely make a separate timetable that is day to day so that I can ensure that I'm on track to complete my work.

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Friday:

Today I made sure that I edited my podcast, and had it all ready for Monday. It had taken a while to edit as I wasn’t too sure on how to create the audio bar visualiser showing the different frequencies. I asked my uncle how to create it as I had visited him later on in the day, taking my laptop with me. He told me that it's a setting in adobe after effects, and by creating a solid and adding the ‘audio waveform’ effect to it I should be able to get it. Now that I managed to create that I added in my character and added some moments where my character is moving so that it is engaging for people. I also felt that the podcast wasn’t really engaging that much so as a small part I asked my friend Katie to draw a character in which I added various things out the video which spins across the screen.

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Week 12 (22 May 2023 - 28 May 2023)

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Monday:

Monday I was stressed as I felt that I didn’t have enough time to complete my work as I realised that I forgot to write my evaluation about other people’s opinions, my own evaluation and also editing the WIP videos where I explain what I had done to each photo. Although I do quite a bit of work at school, I know I get distracted very easily there and I go off task quickly whilst I’m there. I knew I had to come in however as it was deadline day (yay?) and I had to sign off my work and make sure that it was checked. Halfway through the day, it was as if an angel had come down from heaven to bless me and my class as our teachers had announced that they were to extend the deadline by 23 hours. I was so pleased with the news as I knew that I can still get everything done today and any last minute touch ups I could do on Tuesday. I continued working on the WIP videos where I edited the voiceovers with the videos I recorded and managed to get all 3 done today. All that was left for me to do on Tuesday was the evaluation, declaration and to submit my work.

 

Tuesday:

The actual deadline day. I knew I had to stay focused today so what I did was bring in my headphones and moved to one of the editing suites in our college so that I could work towards it all day. I added the declaration first as it was the quickest thing to do and I quickly moved onto writing up my personal evaluation. This took a while to do as I wanted to make sure that I touched base on every aspect of this project and evaluate it as a whole process and not just the final outcomes. This took me from about 9am to 1:30pm (including our breaks) as I did get a bit distracted after the break but I managed to complete it where I still had enough time to write about other people’s opinions on my work. I was finished at around 3pm which meant I had 30 minutes left until my deadline. I felt great that it was finally over and that I was able to finish my project fully. I did feel a bit nervous about it as I thought that I didn’t have enough within my project to be able to get a merit or a distinction which is what I am aiming for. Despite that, I am now finished with my project and it was a journey but I'm relieved that it is all done.