skill progression

Skills progression

Looking back at my as coursework I can see there are a lot of improvements that I not only need to make to my individual way of working but also to the way that I work within the group. I have thought carefully about how I aim to improve the efficiency of my work, I have concluded a few thoughts and I shall aim to achieve goals that I have set myself in order to achieve a much higher standard of work.

Last year I handled my AS Coursework with care until it came down to my blog. I feel that my blog was not up to my normal standards and so this year I am going to try my very hardest to improve on the low standards that I had let myself fall to last year. This year I have decided that in order to improve on this I will set myself individual deadlines that is going to help to stay on top of my work and also maybe be ahead of others in my class. I feel that keeping up to date with my work is going to help give me an extra boost of confidence within my lessons and class work and will also help me to strive to complete everything to the best I possibly can.

A problem that my group came across last year was that of leadership. All of the individuals in my group are often a leader figure within groups and so we found it difficult to get our points across and we sometimes laid in disagreement with the others judgments. This therefore made me take a sort of back seat in the group leaving one individual in my group to make all the final decisions in our group, which sometimes I felt was unfair. This then had a knock on effect when I came to evaluating I found it hard to say would could have gone better because my decisions as well as the other member in my group was rarely recognized. This year I will therefor aim to make my group a hard working group that is able to take everyone’s opinions into account and this will hopefully boost team motivation and therefore create a successful final project.

From the begging of AS coursework I have been able to develop new skills that I may not have even used in the final AS coursework that this year I will be able to. As I aim to make my group as compatible as possible we will be able to combined all of the group’s skills together in order to produce a creative piece that is not cliché and achieve a higher level then what we did last year.

As I am a competitive person I tend to use my competitiveness to my advantage when it comes to coursework, as I will strive to be the best in the class. This was one of the things that I did last year and this really helped me to produce a high standard final project. I just need to keep the competitive spirit when I am doing my blog also this year, as this is what I lacked last year.

This year I will aim to make a precise plan that when filming I will have to stick to as last year we struggled when it came to planning because we all had so many idea they became very narrowed down. I fell that this year if my group wad to make a very precise planning schedule and exact shots that need to be filmed we will have a very successful time when editing. I also found last year that I would have been easier if I would have had a lot more things that our group had filmed as last year sometimes it was hard to drag out timings and make things last. This time I will make sure we over film in order to create a piece that doesn’t look as if we have used things that aren’t needed.  Thus creating a more interesting film trailer. Obviously this year as a trailer I will need to think about having different locations because a film trailer typically shows parts from within the film- concluding that if it was to all be filmed in the same place then it would not be a high level of creativity. After we have decided what direction we are going to aim for I will research different places that we could film that would be interesting when coming to add it to our final project.