A Tale of an A

Got back final proj grade of my basic audio n video pdtn module. Grp grade is A. Was very high. Ate prata at can 2. Slept. Ate crystal jade at JP. went back to hall. msn. came back to school. read thru grading criteria again. made some questions on e grading. did some mental comparison. looked thru e individual grading criterion.

lowest grade was an in-between fair n good for "general preparedness" (ability to meet deadlines, work as a group).

next lowest grade, good, went to 4 aspects:
1) suitability of idea to theme
2) picture quality (exposure, focus, color)
3) visual aesthetics (framing, composition, artistic direction in the scene)
4) considered edit points

good is not a bad grade. but i understand, and have gotten agreement from 2 other frens who previously took e module, that good implies acceptable. not screwed up, not bad, but not very-the-good la. general preparedness is cos of how we din manage to get e whole grp tog. but urm.. e next 4?

story idea came from me. camera man is me. hmm. telling, isn't it?

den how we got A, u ask. we scored max very good for all our individual paperwork. saving grace, but not particularly consoling for me. i mean we - all 3 of us - put in a lot of effort. after all, some grps were working with 5. after all, i din haf e technical help i should've gotten from a functional tripod. but tis doesn't take anything away from e individual grades i see la.

ok i'm juz being self-critical. but i couldn't help tink... did i really get an A? did i really deserve it? of cos, i'm not in e position to self-assess. tt's wad e tutor is for. n i reali like e tutor. Nikki is patient n helpful. n she's not a crappy lecturer.

u noe, i'd reali like to noe how my grade, as a camera operator n pix editor, will change if there's such a form of grading.

yeah say i'm being anal. -shrugs- wadeva u say.

on another note, i reflect on my 229. so much effort put in, how many nights n days n nights. such a project gave me further confirmation of how i work n how i am as a person. i'm inefficient. i'm indecisive. i can be v patient. i can be very forgiving. i can be v PR. i can drive even when i ton whole nite. i can be anal with pix. i'm a color idiot. i'm careless with production paperwork, more concerned with technical production. a tripod can upset me, or rather a dysfunctional tripod can upset me.

i surprised myself with a variety of solutions to e various editing problems that cropped up along e way. i put tis in my reflective essay, n i put it here as well. coming up with tis n that way of getting round e problems we faced gave me confidence. n of cos, it probably helped that i was working with 2 people who trusted me as much as i trusted them.

i haf a fun-filled relationship with Meijun n Xiuwen. and i had an above-average working relationship with them. thankfully. sometimes, it's scary working with ppl u r close with, cos u duno how it'll turn out. Xiuwen with her more quiet with sudden outbursts n distant but calming presence. Meijun always trying to accomodate my sleeping hours, n covering for my indecisiveness, n bearing with my lame jokes no matter at 9am or 2pm or 6pm or 4am.

there were times i tink i got very demanding / commanding, like v insistent on doin it my way. i duno if i did speak in a v 不客氣 tone. i apologise if i did. zhen de. dun say 不要緊.

e mod din turn out e way i hoped it would.. but i guess we made e best out of it. meijun reminded me tt i once said "we might as well juz work as a 3-person grp.. altho insufficient, we'll b super pia." directly or indirectly, tis 烏鴉嘴 tt i haf got its owner a taste of his words.

meijun xiao jie, mabe we wun haf done as well if we had our original team. mabe i still hold some slight regrets over not holding on. but most mabe-ly, i tink i'm glad to say i dun regret having taken tis module n worked with u n xiu.

-NO : Cast n Crew-
[special thanx to Eugene and Xinyu =)]

我不常說我不後悔哦. =)