Media Technologies: Personal Reflection.

Personal Reflection 

Creating an application was a unique and fun experience, challenging both me and my group to think outside the box and be creative with it.  I am proud to say I’m happy with how the work turned out, grateful to have the skills I didn’t have before. 

Challenges and Difficulties

When it comes to challenges I do feel the task had quite a few. One difficulty was having to do this group work online as opposed to being able to go into university to do it. It was a lot harder to arrange meetings, as my technology at home was not ideal. My laptop would often crash and not let me connect to the zoom calls. I did want to be able to work on the application with Paige but due to this issue of online working, we decided it would be better to have one person do this, therefore leaving me feeling like I hadn’t contributed much to the team. I feel I struggled with explaining why our application is beneficial and better than competitors as I find it hard to criticise applications I deem to be successful so this may have hindered the presentation as I didn’t mention our inspiration of Unite Students because I didn’t see this to be beneficial to our work, however looking back I feel I should’ve mentioned this in the presentation. Lastly, the essay part of the assignment was the main struggle for me. I found it difficult to find a topic I was comfortable talking about and applying it to the module itself, so it did take a couple of attempts as well as a few emails to my peers for help before feeling confident about it!

Achievements
I believe my market audience and my research was an achievement as a whole, as I was happy to learn what we needed to include for our work in order for it to be successful. I feel I asked the right questions as well as targeted the right people when I formed my survey. Survey Monkey is potentially one of my strengths. I have used this website since I started university and have grown to like it, therefore enabling a successful and understandable survey for people to answer. Not only this, I feel I did well when answering the feedback questions, telling my mentors the reasons why I personally felt this application needed to be a real working prototype. I ensured them the success of this app would come naturally, as students like me prefer interacting with one another before meeting as it performs as an ice breaker for us all and helps with comfortability. 

Despite times where I did feel like the work I had done wasn’t beneficial or helping by any means, I did come to realise that market research is one of the main aspects of the whole project. Having the realisation that my work was important and was vast help for my team made me feel a lot more confident in what I’d done and what I’d achieved. I’m happy I kept going with the work and made it the best it could be. Overall, I’m proud of myself, what I’ve learnt during media technologies and what I have achieved and know for a fact these skills will help in the future, with whichever career path I take!