Reflection Paper
Luca Ramgarib
Reflection Paper for Digital project
The process of the of creating any project can be a difficult one. There can be difficulties with coming up with a topic for your project, finding details and evidence to support your idea, or even figuring out the organization for your project. The project that I did was to explain the difference between a photograph fiction v.s reality. The project presented itself with some difficulties personally due to the fact that I did not have much photographs to choose from.
The project was title “Digital Storytelling”, because after we described the difference between the fiction and reality of the picture, we had to put together a video with the picture being used and an overlap of a voice recording. This project at first showed some problems for me due to the realization that all the pictures I had did not show any fiction to what it was showing. However after discussing in Professor Handy’s class about how a picture can have many different stories based on the viewers perspective, I realized that to myself the photos that I looked at first glance did not have any fiction because I was looking at them from my perspective. Based on that I took a new perspective, look at the pictures and pretend to be in someone else’s shoes, look at it and try to figure out what others can see from the picture. This helped me choose a photo that mean a lot to me, the picture of my aunt, my uncle, and myself. As in my project I explained why this picture means a lot to me.
When making the video for the project I realized that I needed more photos to support the idea that my aunt and my uncle where like my brother and sister so I asked them for photos of all of us together but we do not have much photos of the three of us together. Instead I used pictures I had. However after the project was due they found some pictures of all of us together and it was funny because there were some good pictures. The overlap voice recording also gave me some trouble, because I would always mess up at the end and had to start over. I had to re-record the assignment many times. When I was editing the video I did not know what sounds to put it or if I should use any effect that would best convey the message I was sending. I played around with the video and tried to see if the transitions I put in would have any effect at all, but I honestly have no clue about video editing. I would most likely mess around with the program some more for future projects.
The feedback I got from my peers and my Professor was very helpful it showed me how I wrote and what I was focusing on. It showed how I was focusing more on the reality of the photograph and not the fiction of the picture. It was easier to explain the reality of the picture rather that the fiction because I knew what the picture was saying than what others may have think. I probably should have explained and put more details on how the picture’s fiction can be seen and that presented itself with a lot of difficulties. If I did not know the backstory behind the pictures I would probably be able to describe the fiction of the picture better.
Throughout the assignment I could have done a better job of how to describe it the fiction better if I would have shared the ideas with my peers to get there opinion. That could have furthered my writing a little better than I hoped the final project presented itself. The hardest tasks on this project must have been finding a photo that was meaningful to myself, describing the fiction behind the photo I had chosen, and the video editing. The project have show me what aspects of the work that I need to improve on for any future projects or assignments.
