Evaluation

During this term my group and I worked on a bullying video. After working on it for weeks, I believe we came up with a pretty good video at the end. Our project was succesful, as we covered all of the steps needed to be done. We all put our efforts into making this video effective, and meaningful to the students of Qatar Academy. We used our time wisely through out this project, as we were all intrested in seeing the final video we have done. I did all of the things needed on time, so that I would keep up with the work needed to be done in the future. For example, I would write up my process journal everday after the class was done, so that I wouldn’t forget what I have done that day. I pasted my process journals into my blogger, so that Mr.Jones would be able to see them. Before starting this project we each had to design some scenes. For example we had to draw examples of what we were going to act during the video, while drawing them in small boxes. We had to draw about 3-4 different photos from different angles, showing what we will be filming. And under each box we had to explain what was happening in that specific box. After finishing from desigining, we moved onto the planning, were we had to plan what the video is going to be about, and what we are going to do in the video etc. For example I wrote how our video was going to be about bullying, and what sort of bullying we are going to add into our video; such as cyber or verb bullying. And lastly after we were done from planning, we eventually began creating our video. I believe that I could have improved on some areas of the planning, such as being more specific, and adding more detal about what the video is going to talk about, and what other people are going to obtain from it. Other than that I believe I did a good job on fullfulling the Design, and Create. While working on this project, I believe that there were a couple of things that I did well on. For instance I was the camera man in many sceneros, and well I liked the job of filming from diffent angles, and putting effects into it, such as zooming in and out. I also think that I did a good job in helping make a bullying song, which we put in the end of our video. Although there were also a couple of things that I could improve on for future referencess, such as putting a bit more effort in helping the group while editing the video, as most of the editing was done by Yazan Abu Ghaida. I don’t think that there is anything I would do differntly, and that is beacause first, the group was perfect; as some of us were actors, singers, camera men, and so on. Second the group was perfect together, we were all like brothers and sisters, and we helped each other by giving advice. My predicted time plan actually didn’t fit at all with the actual project process, and this is because we had many changes as we started filming. We came up with more ideas while filming, which took us more time while filming the scenarios, than actually editing the video on the computers. This made my predicted time plan change quite a lot. Although there were several times which came perfectly with my predicted time plan, for instance; one of my predicted timings was one class for writing a process journal, and that lesson I actually did finish one whole process journal during that lesson. My group and I faced couple of difficulties. These were finishing our editing in time, as we had to present it to the Counsler (Ms.Liza). We put all of our efforts in finishing as soon as possible, and because we tried our hardest, we reached our aim that we were looking forward to, and that was finishing the video in time. After showing the video to our classroom, and to the counsler and Mrs.Boulanger, we got some possitive feedbacks in return. Our colueges in the clasroom admired the video, and so did the Counsler. They told us how good it was, as it showed the aim of it. They also enjoyed the song we made up, and inserted at the end of the video. They thought it was a great idea, instead of just simply going onto the internet and downloading songs, which are not even ours. The project had a huge impact on myself, because it actually showed me how bullying is wrong! The video made me think of real bullyies and how bullying can sometimes lead to death! This is why I think it had a huge impact upon myself. I believe that it had an impact on the other people which watched the video to. As they also felt the same feeling as I did. The project had an impact on the environment/society to. It relates to how real life bullies act upon the people being bullied. This is why my group and I added several points through out the video, which pointed out what the bully should do, and wha the person being bullied should do to help him self. This is what my group and I have been working on for the past term now, and I believe we presented a marvelous video, which really helpe a lot of people.