My Experience in Comm 296
April 8th, 2013Going into the video assignment I wasn’t sure what to expect; it was the first time I was assigned a video project in university and I knew the bar was set high. Luckily I was blessed with one of the most well-functioning and cooperative groups of classmates I could ask for. As a team we learned that communication was absolutely key, especially with this video project. All the tasks were related to each other, we couldn’t do the video without knowing what we were going to say; similarly we didn’t know what to say if the proper research wasn’t done.
In the past, I was prone to being limited to my own ideas and often disregarded other ones. It took me a while to realize that I was in one of the most intelligent, creative, and hard-working faculties in Canada and that taking advantage of this would only benefit the my own work. I learned to better value the opinions of others and to utilize everyone’s strengths to the advantage of the group. We had amazing researchers, writers, visionaries, and artists in our group that all came together to produce an amazing set of assignments and projects.
If I were to do anything differently, it would be to get closer to more members of my group. We were often “strictly business” and I feel that I missed out on a solid opportunity to get closer to my group members on more of a friendship level. But what I can take out from this project is the entire experience in itself. Marketing had never been of interest to me but throughout this class, I learned that marketing is much more intriguing and broad than I could have imagined; my new found interest for the subject is definitely my top takeaway!
