Reflections

Well I guess the best place to begin is the group project, damn I could probably speak about this forever, but not neccessarily for the right reasons :P

Well it definatly was a challange, and regardless of the bits that happend in between the beggining and the end, the end result isnt that bad, and could quite easily become fairly successful.

Even if people keep their view to leave it dead, it was definatly worth while, if anything just for the verification of who I am and what I can do.

I would say that on a production level (assets etc) I wasnt in any way producing what I could, or what I should have been, my time and effort was to plan ahead and dodge the short falls which were inevitably going to happen, keep the falls shallow rather than HUGELY DEEP :P
Ive had to fight with myself, seeing what I have model wise and judging myself by that, its difficult to feel good about all the work that you physically cannot show, keeping your cool has never been difficult for me, but that doesnt mean that during the project i havent wanted to give people the "commen sense backhand attack", you kind of assume that people have a similar mind track to you, its only when people prove otherwise that you realise that some traits you have are actually special.

But I have a new found respect for the tutors, not that I never before hand, but more a case of understanding the more minor issues, and even though they may be minor they carry the same weight as any of the major issues.

You can lead a horse to water, but you cant make it drink

that pretty much sums up the entire project, Ive always been a person who over thinks, it took me a long time to keep taps on it, and not get caught up in thought loops which inevitably end up in unproductive projects.

But its not perfected, i definatly got caught up in one!


Communication - There wasnt any, regardless of my efforts, there wasnt any, if you read this gang, you seriously need to pay more attention to your communication, I know its a tricky one, if we generalise our class by our course, were all ghostly pimply geeky nerdesque people who nasal giggle to each other and piss our pants when were anywhere near a girl who smells like roses.

But the sad truth is that the majority of people on our course can quite happily chat to one another to some extent, but when it comes to communicating proffesionally are terrible!!!


Attendance - This one closely ties in with communication, we set out to meet up each and everyday between 11-12 to keep tabs on each other, look through work and chat about what assets need to be done, wether assets needed fine tuning etc etc
First couple of weeks were O.K. with only 1 or 2 being gone here or there, there were issues but nothing that couldnt have been sorted.
11-12 is fair, you get time to lie in and when you leave around 1 you have the whole day.

But that obviously wasnt what people wanted to do, after being in each day between 10-11 until 2/3 usually, i eventually got fed up, at the time the computers were being a big pile of wank, thank you so much Novell Client for shitting on our Pc's!!!!!!

So around week 5 I broke, didnt come in for an entire week because why waste my efforts, that period of time kind of lingerd afterwards, i lost my interest entirely, and have only recently fixed my sleeping pattern back to normal!!!!

BUT

Them not coming in technically shouldnt have been an issue if there was communication, an online asset list, online art bible and tech spec, Blog, MSN to chat, email........everyone can be used without having to be present in the labs.

my brains is fried a bit to do with this ill update it tommorrow probs