WHAT HAVE I LEARNT SINCE THE

PRELIMINARY TASK?SADIE QUINN

TECHNOLOGY • WHEN I FIRST STARTED THE COURSE, WHAT I FOUND TO BE INITIALLY

DAUNTING WAS THE COMPLEXITY (OR IT SEEMED HARDER THAN IT POSSIBLY WAS) OF THE TECHNOLOGICAL APPLICATION REQUIRED TO SUFFICIENTLY COMPLETE THIS PROJECT. ALTHOUGH I COMPLETED AN ICT COURSE IN EARLIER YEARS, THE STUFF THAT I WAS ONCE TAUGHT DID NOT PREPARE ME FOR PROGRAMMES SUCH AS ADOBE AUDITION, WHICH I FOUND TO BE PARTICULARLY DIFFICULT. HOWEVER, EVEN THOUGH DURING THE PRELIMINARY TASK I MAY NOT HAVE BEEN AS SKILLED AS I HOPED TO BE, I HAVE LEARNED FROM PREVIOUS MISTAKES AND NOW FEEL CONFIDENT IN MINE AND JENNA’S FINAL PROJECT.

RECORDING

• INITIALLY WE ENCOUNTERED SEVERAL PROBLEMS AND ENDED UP RECORDING A SIGNIFICANT PORTION OF OUR PRELIMINARY TASK ON OUR PHONES. HOWEVER WE LEARNT FROM THESE PROBLEMS AND CAME PREPARED TO THE RECORDING OF OUR FINAL TASK WITH MORE PROFESSIONAL RECORDING EQUIPMENT THAT WE FOUND TO BE FAR EASIER TO USE.

TIME SCALE• THE FIVE MINUTE BULLETIN WAS OBVIOUSLY A LOT HARDER TO PREPARE FOR

THAN THE PRELIMINARY TASK AS WE HAD TO FEEL UP A LARGER SPACE OF TIME WITHOUT RAMBLING. WE PRACTICED MORE TIMES THAN I CAN REMEMBER (MAINLY DUE TO CONSTANT LAUGHING) AND IN THE END WE LEARNED THAT ALTHOUGH THE PROJECT WAS DIFFERENT TO THE FIRST, WE COULD APPLY THE SAME SKILL-SETS AND CREATE A PROJECT WE WERE HAPPY WITH.

CONFIDENCE• I HAVE STAGE FRIGHT AND CONFIDENCE ISSUES AND SO THIS PROJECT WAS

INITIALLY DIFFICULT, ESPECIALLY WHEN RECORDING THE PRELIMINARY TASK. HOWEVER, I’VE TRIED MY HARDEST TO IMPROVE AND I FEEL THAT BOTH JENNA AND I HAVE MOVED PAST ANY STRUGGLES IN THE PROJECT (SUCH AS LOSING SOME DOCUMENTS) TO CREATE SOMETHING EVEN BETTER THAN BEFORE, AND I FEEL A LOT MORE CONFIDENT IN GENERAL FOLLOWING THESE TASKS!

THE INDUSTRY• THIS PROJECT HAS TAUGHT ME A LOT ABOUT THE RADIO INDUSTRY, WHICH I

PREVIOUSLY HAD ABSOLUTELY NO KNOWLEDGE ON. I HAVE FOUND THAT THE PEOPLE AND INSTITUTIONS INVOLVED IN THIS INDUSTRY ARE INCREDIBLY INTERESTING IN ADDITION TO THE LESSON OF JUST HOW IMPORTANT RADIO AND TELEVISION BROADCASTING CAN BE. NEWS HAS THE POWER TO ULTIMATELY SHAPE HOW THE PUBLIC PERCEIVE THE WORLD AROUND THEM, HOW WE THINK, WHO WE KNOW, WHO WE SUPPORT AND MOST IMPORTANTLY GIVE EVERY SINGLE PERSON, REGARDLESS OF THE BACKGROUND THEY COME FROM, THE OPPORTUNITY TO GAIN ONE OF THE MOST BEAUTIFUL THINGS OF ALL: KNOWLEDGE OF JUST HOW BIG THIS WORLD IS, IF ONLY THEY TAKE THE TIME TO LOOK.