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4th Quarter Reflection



For this project, we started off by creating a fake product. Once we had done this, we had to create other aspects to help advertise this product. So, after we had decided our product, we started on the actual graphics that would help to sell it. The graphics we were required to make included a 3D representation of our product, two web banners, a commercial, a logo and other graphic design images, and a website. All of these served a slightly different purpose in our advertising, but they were all important. This project definitely had its ups and downs for our groups, so we had to improvise our ideas a little bit. Our group worked very well to complete our own work on time, so then we could help our teammates later on if they needed it. This is what I believe made our team so successful; we were not afraid to share our ideas and help one another.  Finally, after about two months of working on this project with many ups and downs, our group was finally ready to pitch our product. I was extremely happy with how our project turned out, and I am very proud of our work.

                                   
                                     


For this project, we had to complete everything during class. This included our 3D and 2D animations, commercial, website, and graphic design aspects. So, this was a very big project that required a lot of work from all of us. I think the team aspect of this project definitely helped to motivate us during class, since we didn't want to let our other team members down. Also, to make our project even better, our group did a good job of giving good critiques to the other people in our group, so our project could be even better. As a whole, I think our group did a very good job of using our time wisely so we could complete our project.


I have definitely learned a lot in all of the different strands this year. However, I am definitely better at some parts as compared to others. For this project, I believe my strengths were the graphic designs and video. I probably could have improved some things, but as a whole I was very happy with it. I was also pretty pleased with what I did for video. I think I have really improved with my video editing this year, along with setting up good transitions and cuts that help the video to flow. I'm sure I will only continue to improve with both of these with hard work in the future. I was definitely not the best at some parts of the project. For example, I think I could improve my website skills, and try to get more creative with it. However, the main strand that I need to improve on based on this project was animation. Overall, I will definitely try to improve on these aspects later on so I can create even better projects.






As a whole, this was a very fun project to work on. It was very nice having the freedom to do all of these different parts of the project on our own. I also really enjoyed working with my team throughout the quarter to create this project. There are a few things I might have tried to change if we were to do this project again, but overall I am very happy with what we created. If I were to take away one thing from this project, it would probably be the team aspect. Our group did a great job of sharing our ideas, and helping each other, so I hope I can bring that with me for the rest of my e-Comm career. If I were to set one other goal after this project, it would probably just be to continue to work hard in class so I can continue improving as a student and designer. Overall, I really enjoyed working on this project and I think it was a great way to end my first year in e-Comm.




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