Mission 3 - Feedback & Reflection

Overall, I'm happy with the grade but wish I'd known from the start that it would be so incredibly difficult to get there. The topic itself was something I was confident and interested in but had I had a topic I wasn't confident in or didn't understand as well I'm not sure that I'd have been able to produce something of even decent quality. As I said though, I can't change these things now and I didn't know what was to come at the start but I'm proud to know that in these situations I still can manage to pull something good together.

Having just looked at my grade, I'm incredibly happy to receive what I did. As I said, majority of it was done by me and it was done on the Saturday before it was due, along with a heap of other assignments. I really pushed myself and it definitely took a toll on me but I did it and it paid off. It could have been better had we been able to fix it earlier in the process but these things can't be changed now. I know that we definitely could have had a better and longer description of interactive journalism within the digital journalism world and that there could have been a better explanation of how to make the story map and how we did it - we asked several other class members about their birth countries' celebration - but I felt as though this really would have been to much on me to add to the presentation after everything.

I do think it was a good standard and that it explained digital journalism well. We didn't really get any specific feedback as it was done in a rubric system so I'd be interested to hear if there were any specific points for our presentation that our lecturer or even classmates would have, I think that would be helpful. 

Looking back, I would have done the video from the start myself. I would have done it completely differently and though it would've taken longer, it also wouldn't have been rushed or a 'made do' video. I also think anything like lack of audio clips and others' resources would have been solved earlier and I'd imagine everything would just go much smoother.

I did use previous feedback from other missions on my approach to this at the beginning. We did plenty of research but I made it really clear that we didn't need loads of points and that we'd be sparing with text. We didn't want it too word heavy or to look like a block of text. I also made the point of not reading the words from our powerpoint in our audio and instead elaborating and just keeping to the topic and hitting the main points instead.