Self reflection time!
Areas that needed improvement:
In order for crowdsourcing to be successful- it takes time. More time than what I think my classmates had/were willing to give to our project. I'm guilty of it too. Its easy to neglect a once a week class, especially one with a unconventional setup. Which is very sad as I loved the concept of having more "power" in the structure of one of my classes. I think us as college students are so accustom to rigid class structure that when a class like this one comes along- our minds see it as chance to chill (which ultimately results in many slacking off).
In order for crowdsourcing to be successful- it requires a plan and a container idea. Now we did end up having a plan in the end. Our container idea of the poem, I found quite interesting ( especially it being a brainstorming morph from my pitched idea). I think a place that we went wrong was that when brainstorming some of us tried to include everyones idea which lead to major confusion. I wish he had just picked an idea that was pitched and move forward instead of us "wasting" multiple class times on brainstorming that ended up just going in circles. I have found that many college students have trouble understanding the concept of brainstorming and try to jump from idea to final project without taking the baby steps along the way. Is there such a way to teach how to brainstorm? Or is that defeating the purpose of the concept of brainstorming?
Personally, I feel that my specific job of social media managing was lacking. I struggled getting responses despite what I felt was good content. Maybe with more time or perhaps a small budget I would have been able to get some better responses. I wish I could of had time to create video content for encouragement of submissions. But should of, could of, would of.
Areas that we got right:
Everyone has a part of the puzzle ! Micro roles for the micro tasks.
Roles got murky as others had to step up in order to actually finish the final product. I just wish that some took more accountability/pride in fulfilling their roles. But in theory, the idea of having everyone play a certain role in the project was excellent.
Everyone is a editor.
Now this is were things got, well hellish. But the concept of everyone editing their section of the film that they were most familiar with was great. Once again, with this being a group project some did not do their part until the night before. The final film ended up looking like it was thrown together. I was not at the final assembly of the film, for some reason I was never notified. It wasn't all bad, it just needed some time for refinement, I believe. I know for a fact a lot of elements that were planned and discussed for the final edit for some reason did not happen. This "section by section" editing did help with the project's fast turn around time.
Separate brainstorming and pitching of ideas. This was awesome! Having everyone come up with 2 different film ideas and pitch them was great. It showed a vast variety of interest and viewpoints. I would have like to have seen many if the film crowdsourced concepts pitched. Most of our great micro task ideas came from this separate brainstorming approach as well.
In conclusion, this class had its rocky points (as do all classes with "large"- haha- group projects) but I feel that I got my moneys worth. I was introduce to a lot of new crowdsourcing projects,films, and articles that I found great interest in. I still have a lot of interest in creating more crowdsourcing based projects and feel this class has better prepared me for tackling such projects. I also got to refine and improve upon my group project interaction skills. An area that I always need help in (I tend to like to work alone). If given the chance, I would take this class again. Thank you Andre! - Hannah
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