Senior Final Reflection

 5 Guarantees

I have improved drastically in all of these skills. I improved in technical skills by mastering the Adobe suite, and Collaboration because I am much better at getting along with other students. I improved my leaderships through my feature film role. I still need to work on all guarantees especially technical skills.  I am going to use all guarantees to take to my college career and greater future. E-comm has prepared me for many aspects of my future

 Technical skills

  The first guarantee is technical skills.  During the program we had hands on experience with camera's lighting, and other equipment. The hands on experience helped me gain knowledge on how to use them and even the technical vocabulary. We also used the adobe suite, I am now confident with my premiere, illustrator and photoshop skills. Technical skills are important because this information helps us advance in our career especially if we want to major in anything e-communication related.  I faced the most challenges with this guarantee, using equipment and the adobe suite definitely takes trial and error to succeed.

Communication

 

The next guarantee is communication. We learn this skill through learning how to communicate with clients and our teams. This skill is crucial in any future career. It is important to learn how to communicate with clients or communicate to get connections. Some challenges I faced was miscommunication with some groups when scheduling filming.

Collaboration

We learn collaboration through group work and the feature film. This is important for our futures so we can work efficiently with others within our career. I faced challenges in freshmen year during our final, when group members didn't talk

Leadership

We showcase Leadership when we represent e-comm at open house events. I learned leadership making our feature film , because I had a leadership role.  Leadership skills are important to achieve higher roles in your career.

Project management

We learn project management by achieving deadlines. I have struggled with this throughout the important. This skill is great for college to learn how to reach deadlines.

Top 3 Projects 

Film reel 

 My Film Reel expressed me as a creator. The reel showcased how I like to film happiness and emotion and I concisely tied it to a dream theme. I feel like I did a good job only picking my best shots only. My film reel was diverse, it showcased many projects from sophomore year and onward. I Branded myself with the dream theme and added my contact info at the end. I showcased this reel as a filmmaker branding reel, because I wanted to showcase a variety of things and professionally brand myself with a theme.

  Next time I would work more on exporting my videos properly and next time I would like to stick to a theme like I did for this. From this project I learned more editing skills that I can bring to the table for the next project. In conclusion: I am extremely proud how my reel turned out and hope to showcase it to many.

Feature film

cursed

My Biggest Project as a entertainment student is working on a feature film. Our film this year is "cursed" . This is a horror/ suspense film about a generational cursed. This film has scenes in the 60s, 80s and current time period so, art direction is crucial. I provided some costumes for the characters and helped styled them. Art direction was restricted due to Covid, but I still made it work. One of the hardest scene to art direct was a bedroom scene in the 80s . We had to transform two modern bedrooms to 80s teen bedrooms. I gathered some props from the thrift stores, my dads old stuff and many other crew members brought some stuff too. The rooms were greatly transformed. I got great feedback from this project, and hope to pursue art-directing in the future.

Maruchan commercial

In This project we had to make a commercial for the product of our choosing . My group ended up doing a ramen noodle commercial for maruchan. This only took 2 hours of filming, and a week of class period for pre production and post production. We faced challenges in scheduling a date to film so not everyone showed up to the filming. From this project I learned a lot about advertising technique. We got very good feedback from this project infarct we placed 3rd in the voting. We often got critiques about getting rid of the logos. I am very proud of this project.

Overall Reflection

I often worked on projects outside of school, I have practiced editing at home to enhance my skills. I found my strength in Art- Direction and creativity, I always put my creative and artistic view within a project. I need to improve on technical skills, such as operating the camera. More practice in this will help me enhance my skills. My classmates was my favorite thing about this year, we bonded so much when creating the feature. One take away is to not take anything for granite. I would like thank Smith for caring so much for us, she puts so much effort for us to have great experiences. E-comm will be something I'll look back to for many years. I had so many wonderful times and experiences throughout the program.