Media Project Term 2 Final Post

After ten weeks, I have finally completed my Major Project. It had some ups and downs, but I am glad to have finally completed it. There were many difficulties to completing it, mostly personally problems preventing me from progress but I will not delve into that. In this post I will reflect on what I have done good, and what I need to improve on.

First, I will discuss my strengths of what I have done in my project. Because I write as a hobby as well, I already outlined my story from start to finish, so I have an idea of what to write. I also know when to output blog posts at the right time, but I often do not write enough, the matter of which I will discuss later. I also have a good idea of where to draw inspirations from and how to mould those inspirations into my own unique ideas for my script. I am also well-versed in the script writing format so I know how to write a script properly.

As for weaknesses that I need to improve on, there are many. I am often easily distracted to many things due to my ADHD and sometimes spend ten minutes just listening to music when I am supposed to be writing at home, so I will have to try to not listen to music at all in those times. Another major flaw is that I do not read my tutor feedback on my blogs that detail what I have done wrong, the reason being is that I am afraid of criticisms, but I will try to listen more next term to get better marks on my blogs. Because of my procrastination, I sometimes wait until the last minute to do my work, which sometimes leads to things being rushed and flawed. One dilemma that has been brought up this term is a very personal experience that left me depressed for a week and prevented me from doing my work, and while I will not detail it I will say that I will try my best not to let emotional problems get in the way of my work, and ask for emotional support from others when I do.

In addition to my strengths, I have also learned to keep my brainstorming mind-map smaller to what I am actually doing.

Pictured above is my Milanote mind map from the previous term where I planned out my script meticulously. Some of these ideas were planned for concepts later on of the script's series and were essentially unnecessary in the beginning, which led me to not put enough time in my script.

Pictured above is the mind-map from this term, which is considerably smaller. This is because I only planned for what I will actually write for my script, which meant that I worked quicker and spent more time on my script, so I will keep this in mind for next term's project.

https://danialshamshuddin.wixsite.com/redactedstudio

That said, I have updated my Wix website to add my new script, remove personal information, and update my About page, which can be found in the link above. I look forward for my next project next term, which I will try to do something different from my previous projects. I hope to learn to write more "chill" episodes, or even a horror setting for my script, as I am interested in writing a more broad array of settings.