Day-2 of CCCP3 Workshop

My coursemates and I were looking forward to the coming events of the workshop because we have the opportunity to discover and learn something new every day. 

Today, we form a new group again with students from Multimedia and Graphic Design Course. I was arranged to team A which form by three students from Broadcasting including me whereas the other two students from Multimedia and two students from Graphic Design. 

The first lecturer who consulted us was Robin, he taught us how to start a proposal or pitch, and produce a good story with beginning, middle and ending. After that, Robin asked us to discuss and pick one of the titles (Never make the same journey twice, you are where you have been, gagging for adventure, the closer you look the more you’ll find and essence of being Manchunian), we picked ‘The closer you look, the more you’ll find’ as our title, and also discuss about the storyline of our story.

At first, I feel displeasure and unhappy with this group because we do not even introduce each other and we do not really work well as a group. My two male members discuss among themselves and do not bother the other members at all, I told them not to discuss each other but discuss with all the group members. Slowly, we come out with our ideas and give an opportunity to everyone to voice out their own opinions and also ideas, and then we started to work as a team. Teamwork is really important when it comes to group work. 

During Mark’s class, we learned about the basic ideas and knowledge of typography. At first, I felt so boring because I am not interested in this topic and I actually prefer to have a class with Robin since he was a lecturer that in the broadcasting field. But when Mark gave us a task which each group has to draw a graphical mind map to describe our daily life by using typography and sounds to represent it, it catches my attention in this task.

The last task in Day-2 that we have to do was to draw a storyboard for our story. Johny gave us lots of opinion for our storyline and my group members and I have fun communicate with each other while completing the tasks.

Day-1 of CCCP3 Workshop

Today was the first day of Creative, Communication, and Collaborative Practice 3 Workshop, it recalled me the great memories that I spent with Johny, Roy, Danny and Lloyd seven months ago.

 Johny

 Roy   

            Danny

             Lloyd

Lecturers from the University of Salford have a meeting with people in charge in TARUC before the workshop, so my friends and I took many photos while waiting for them.

At first, Johny introduces the other three lecturers to us and ask us to form groups for activity. My coursemates and I formed the groups one day before the workshop, but since Johny has a new instruction to form new groups so we followed what he asked to. We divided into four groups by calling the numbers from one to four and I was under Gemma's group. Gemma briefed us what to do about the task, we need to do research, find out the features of North-West of England, which are Manchester and Salford. Soon, we are separated into four or five people in a group and started our research.

 Mark

  Johny

     Gemma

  Robin

My group has come out with a title that is 'How to become a Mancunian' and chosen 'Diversity', 'Speed', 'The Heat', 'Tongue Teaser' and 'H2O' as our key terms, which represent different cultures in China Town, Rolls Royce motor cars, the football competitions, the foods and also the brewery. My group has decided that all of us have to present in front of the lecture hall. We also make sure that we have practice and prepare for the presentation on upcoming Friday.

My group members and I: Thomas, May, me, Vinxy, Alice.

Before the lecturers leave, my friends and I asked Johny some questions about the individual work which what to write in the blog. Johny briefed us what to do and asked us to describe ‘what you did, what went well, what went less well, what would you do difficult?’ in the blog.

I am really happy to meet all the students who take TARUC and UoS dual awards again, we coordinate with others and work together after such long time. At the same time, I also worried about I might not catch up with the progress because my English is weak especially when it comes to conversation. The things we learn and did in the workshop are totally different from what we did in our classes, it is a whole new experience and it is also an interesting way for learning.