At the start of the semester, the idea I have in the first class is totally different compared to now the project we build. In that time, my idea was making something like spider web which allows the audience to do some interact with those rope to trigger different sound.
The chance I join to the group is Stuart inform me that his idea - making a projection mapping project. I have some experience that make projection mapping in my second year studio project and I have a small projector can use for group. But in the time, I still not give up my idea. After we decide to have a group, we didn’t start develop Stuart’s idea as we all have our own idea that feels better and this do slow our process compare to other groups.
But the good thing is we do understand other's ability and weak during the research and prepare time. So once we coming to decide the team role, everyone know what is their good at and weakness. I like the feeling of having teamwork. It is also the time we start realize that we all have some interest or experience of making the projection mapping project.
The hardest challenge coming to me is I don’t have much work at the really start as I am the person who work on the projector. All I need is just check the projector's focus is right and the editing the size we need. It is quite boring and easy, so I have more time to suggest about the concept and our idea behind our project.
A really interesting point that Sheena told us is she has a paper last year that the topic is about how young people addicted to social media. And this become one of most important concept to our project, which we believe that use broken mobile that we borrow from Clint could easily represent the message we want tell.
The second challenge coming to me is after break, we already done some critique and Clint agree on our idea. To do our final set-up, I get a new team role that is work on collecting sound and editing the sound. I do feel a bit pressure as I have been a long time that not touch any about sound editing and it is also one of the most important job as this paper is Sound Space & image.
In my personal viewpoint, it is fun and valuable to re-study something you already forget. It is way easier than to learn something you never know. In the night when I watch YouTube tutorial, I start become skilful and in the end I can do all the job without get other’s help. I do make some mistake that the first one I made are terrible that has a loud static noise inside. It is weird that never happen on my laptop but I still need fix that. It is the despire night for me in this semester as I can’t stop imagine that my team complain on my work and kick me out from groups.
But the result tells me that I have to think more positive. I have a good team that they support and agree the process I have done which do give me lots of confidence to finish this project. I do realize that is already the 3rd year I coming to the university but I still don’t trust myself sometime. That maybe the reason why I always like do team work job as I need other people’s recognition and encouragement.
In summary, this paper could be one of the most freedom paper I ever had. We don’t have much limit to design and develop our idea and have communication with other people who is also doing cool stuff but different to us. I really like the freedom as I know how bad to limit a creator's imagine by give some boring requirement. The most value thing I have learn from this paper would be I understand my weakness more deeper and improve my teamwork ability, even we comes with different initial idea at start.