Reflections – Media
Media I dislike so far.
Term one involved a giant regurgitation of what I had learned at A and even AS level Media, followed by some disastrous group work which meant nothing, and an essay with an incomprehensible title. I hate group work with a passion, mostly due to being a stubborn perfectionist, which is probably the worst kind of person to work with. People, I’ve noticed, have a tendency to spend six days a week making plan after plan of what is going to happen, followed by ten more days of making it happen. This is entirely unrealistic when we have weekly set tasks, and it irks me when a simple task that could take two hours becomes a mammoth plan that takes fifty hours, looks rubbish, and sets us behind for the next few tasks. Couple that with people not turning up, people believing they are the boss because they are loudest, or stubborn people who refuse to believe that their frankly useless plan isn’t any good, I hate group work. I’d prefer to do all the group work by myself, get the job done, and enjoy the marks as they come flying in.
Term three (Term two was Journalism) involves largely the same idea, except we’re doing fun tasks. We have five weeks, five projects, and an irrelevant essay to end it all. This is working a little better, though planning and drafting is painstakingly long, and realism and time management is not a key strongpoint with the group. To better myself in Media, I’m going to have to stop being so stubborn about being a perfectionist, and realise my views aren’t always the groups views, and I’ll have to adjust to them. I’m working on that, but it’s not easy for me.
