Final Submission - Black Motorcycles, The Last Suprematist Sculpture

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After 13 long weeks working on ‘The Last Suprematist Sculpture’ group project we have finally completed what we set out to do. As a group we constructed a brief outlining our aims, challenges and outcomes to develop a vector copy of Russel’s sketch of a Honda CB750 combined with a photo realistic vector illustration of a MV Augusta.

We were to utilise 2 styles in our collage, one was to replicate Russel’s sketch and the other was to take on a more photo realistic look for the front half. Our group was thrown in the deep end on this project as it largely utilised Adobe Illustrator which none of us had used before. This project was one that I wanted to work on from the beginning and I’m glad that I got to be a part of it. I spent a lot of time helping my group members understand the tasked needed for completion as well as helping them understand the programs which put extra pressure on me as I also had my own sections of work as well as all the presentations. But all came through in the end despite multiple setbacks.

Group Objectives and Goals

As one of the groups doing ‘The Last Suprematist Sculpture’, we developed a brief which outlined all our objectives and goals to clarify the key aspects of this project. Our mission was to develop and construct a vectored collage specifically to the image Russel supplied us at the beginning of the term. This Collage had to be exactly the same as the image that was given down to its imperfections. 

Individual Milestone

This project is based around the premise of working in a group and collaborating with others. Earlier in the semester we each assigned ourselves individual goals to achieve by the completion of the project, these were our Individual Major Milestones. The Milestones are representative of the goals that I aspired to fulfil over the semester

-        Professional Illustrator Design

With my business outside of Architecture, the Illustrator program was one that I had heard of many times for graphic design work although I had never really researched it or played with it. But now through this assignment this semester I have developed a sound understanding of taking photos and turning them into realistic vectored images using a range of different tools and techniques. I am very pleased with my work and how it turned out. I feel like I accomplished my goal and now can utilise this skill in my business and further assignments.   

-        Professional Documentation

I set this as one of my milestones as I have a business based around visually documenting events and moments. I have been doing Photography and Video for 5 years now and felt that I could benefit my team by documenting our weekly progress through photos and videos as well as creating visually captivating and effective videos to assist in our presentations. I wanted to give our group an edge when it came to our presentations and wiki. I believe that a visually captivating video can greatly assist presentations, keep people’s attention and engage viewers. This was one unique skill that I could use to benefit out team. I believe that I achieved this goal this semester.

Wiki Developement

Being one of the major parts of the assignment, ‘manage and maintain a wiki to document your team’s progress throughout the semester’, this was an important aspect of the assignment. Having an easy to navigate and visually pleasing wiki was what I was aiming for as people visiting will more likely stay longer or enjoy their time on the page. As the wiki is a big part of the assignment, it was a must to have everything up to date and easy to find. Weekly updates were to be made to show our groups progress, this included photos and videos accompanied by text detailing what went on during the week and how we progressed. When delegating tasks to team members, I volunteered to be in charge of the wiki development. This included making sure that everything was up to date and presentable. 

I customised the standard wiki layout and changed some of the HTML coding to make the page more visually pleasing. I also created a banner as well as positioning the navigation menu and text in an easy to read manner.

I designed the wiki to be as user friendly as possible, with everything being laid out simply and clearly. 

The page is easy to navigate through. There are main headings, once inside those headings, it branches off into the different sub headings/ topics.

Information is displayed clearly and neatly. Pictures and videos have descriptions to make it easier to understand. 

Presentation Development

Presentations are an important way of letting others knows your ideas and plans. Creating a visually pleasing presentation with relevant information and images that flow and engage the audience is crucial to getting your ideas across or in this case a good mark. When developing my team’s presentation, I try to do these things. From watching other presentations, I have tried to learn from others and do things differently in order to be more successful. For instance, some presentations have been quite plane and uninteresting. I try to have an engaging presentation by having it flow nicely with simple animations, colours, images and backgrounds as well as videos to help captivate the audience. I try to make the presentations more visual rather than textural, as other presentations have too much information and drag on way to long.  

-        Dedicated and Helpful Team Leader

This project turned out to be quite challenging when leading my team. I needed a lot of patience for my group as I had to explain almost everything a number of times before they would somewhat understand the direction we were heading. I have never really been a team leader myself before, unless it is my own project where it’s my vision, I like to sit back and let other people make the decisions. I’m not one for arguing my point within a group unless I’m the director. I’m a fan of the saying “to many cooks spoil the broth’. But in this case I was appointed automatically.
When my group needed help or information I tried my best to help and as quickly as I could. I tried to help by taking on the more challenging jobs as to create less confusion for my team. This helped them complete their tasks but left me with more to do.

This role was defiantly the most challenging and more frustrating ones, but I overcame it and It has defiantly given me more experience in running a team for my future tasks.

What have I Achieved?

Form the work that I did for my group and the quality of each I believe I did achieve my Major milestone. From working within a group for 3 ½ months, I have learnt a lot more about working within a team. In the past, group assessment only last for a few weeks or a month, proving harder than anything I have done before. When working within a team on an assignment that you all know nothing about is quite challenging. You really need to plan, listen to one another and communicate. Because everyone has different priorities and lives, things won’t always be done or go according to plan. This project has defiantly taught me that working in a group requires a lot more than just delegating tasks then everyone segregates, doing their own individual sections. It requires at lot more collaboration and closely working together to achieve goals.

This project has defiantly changed my approach to working within a team and on future projects. I know now to communicate and stay on track with the group. Research is the key to learning new things as well as planning and preparation. The use of communication is a must as well as finding team members strengths and weaknesses and using them to your advantage. I have learnt that working within a team there will always be some form of conflict, whether it is severe or something minor. From researching and doing a presentation on the subject, I believe I could effectively deal with a situation if I was ever to be put in a situation again.

If I were to start this assignment again, I would create a strong work ethic to work to over the duration of the assignment. I would dedicate more time to research, as we had little knowledge on what types of Illustrator tools and techniques could better aid our image. I would also ask people for help, advice or tips which would help speed up the research and give us better knowledge from an experienced source.

Conclusion

Working on this project over the past 3 ½ months has given me not only team building skills, but skills in how to take on daunting tasks with a group that you know little about and achieve a result that you didn't think possible. Our group achieved a lot in the amount of time we were given. Although what we did produce was limited to the quality of the original image, a much more detailed and clearer image would have resulted in a much better product. But all in all, we achieved our goals of creating ‘The Last Suprematist Sculpture’ utilising illustrator and 123D catch and are all very happy with the end result.

Final Presentation - Groups Critique

Last Suprematist

Andrew & Marina

• A lot of pain staking hours went into creating a photo realistic finish using the mesh tool

• Not happy with the finished product, the contrast between gradient and pen tool was not how they wanted it.

Vedran & Sally                                                                                           

• Through their use of the mesh tool, they were able to create a realistic representation of Russell’s collage.  

• Through using the Pen tool, the work was really time consuming and tedious.

Josh & Henderson

• They found toggling off the source image to be quite encouraging and pleasing as it would show their progress and likeness to the original image.   

• The exhaust and pipes took far too long using pen tool, this became a setback as they lost crucial time to complete other parts.

Aerial Ropeway

Paul, Roschelle, Shaun, Eugelyn, Jesharelah

• The Animated falling towers were amazing; the detailed crisis levels were also really well done.

• The group had lots of problems with programs;  and lots of errors with rope animations causing them to scrap the whole idea.

Matt, Daisy, Iqra, Yen, Bethany, Maria

• The group was really pleased with the functioning animated rubble buckets within the Crysis level.

• They encountered problems with animations caused by crisis (glitches)

Bus Stop

Martha, Anthony, Kerre, Darren, Daniel, Jason, George, Rue, Michael, Kangyi

• The groups final work was really well presented and very professional

• The display was very informative with lots of models, diagrams and posters detailing the group’s progress.

• The group had problems with the project objective which changed mid-way through the semester creating frustrations and difficulties.

Gothic Architecture

Ricky, Dorothy, Maki, Stefan, David, Alan

• They did a great job of creating a functioning and aesthetically pleasing church using the program Unity.

• The group found it difficult to follow the tutorials as the keys didn’t have a description to help explain further.  

Anthony, Yaoyu, Lauren, Bassel, Ben, Xiaodong

• The group was most pleased with the navigation within their interactive interface, it is really well done.

• They had some trouble importing custom terrains and textures into Unity which caused frustrations and difficulties.  

Week 11/12 - Weekly Progress

In the lead up to our final presentation my group and I became frantic and stressed as we just started implementing a new technique to our Illustrator image. This technique using ‘The Mesh Tool’ would allow you to place lots of points within a shape and then change the colour of those points to give a vectored gradient between colours.

We changed to this technique as we realised that you couldn’t ‘Blur’ or ‘Feather’ vectored layers without them pixelating.

This new process was much more difficult as certain shapes could create weird results and the more complex the object, the messier it became as there were too many lines.  

We then realised that only certain parts were suitable for the mesh tool technique and others were better suited to the pen tool technique.

This gave us a better direction and cleared a lot of problems up, also speeding up the process.

The final days saw a few problems, with group member’s work not being detailed enough or incorrect. This led to further changed on their behalf as well as problems with late submissions.

Prior to week 11 we were having lots of problems with our 123D Catch model. We then managed to get a great capture using the Red Centre labs. 

At the end of week 12, Molly took our 123D catch model and cleaned it up using 3DS Max, also lowering the poly count. She then combined the capture of the Honda CB750 given to us at the beginning of the semester and combined the two creating a 3D model of our Illustrator image.  

Week 11 - Group presentation Review (Remuneration)

Team Name - The Last Suprematist Sculpture

Team Members - Anders, Josh

CLARITY OF THE ORAL PRESENTATION
The oral presentation was successful in demonstrating the concept of remuneration. The group spoke clearly and provided an informative presentation on the topic. The group were able to articulate the many aspects that affect the way the design industry functions in relation to remuneration, including numerous advantages and disadvantages. This was well communicated by the group members.

CLARITY OF THE WRITTEN PRESENTATION
The text within the presentation was excessive at times, with numerous graphs and charts making it difficult to follow. Furthermore, the video was quite dull and the group could have benefited by making it more entertaining, however it was relevant to the topic.

DISTINCTIVENESS AND SPECIFICITY OF THE EXAMPLES
The group included some relevant and highly effective examples to communicate their message, for example presenting the pros and cons of being a freelancer. The students connected their examples with the real world and demonstrated how these situations may be applicable to the audience on a personal level. Within the presentation, the group provided an in depth demonstration on how to submit an invoice.

THE CONCEPTUAL CONTEXT
The group gave their presentation in an engaging and informative manner, providing detailed and relevant examples to assist in communicating their concept. The group were successful in their presenting their concept as they made links to how it could be useful to me, as well as considerations to take for my own career.   

My Groups Presentation On Conflict

What is conflict?

There is a tendency to view conflict as a negative experience caused by abnormally difficult circumstances but conflict can be productive and have positive outcomes. Conflict arises when there is a clash of two or more opposing ideas or needs creating a negative experience 

There are 4 main factors that that stand out:

1.      Disagreement– Conflict can sometimes sprout from misunderstandings rather than actual incidence and therefore exaggerate the perceived disagreement. If the parties can isolate the actual issue then the problem can be solved.

2.      Parties involved - People often "take sides" based upon current perceptions of the issues, past issues, relationships and other factors. These circumstances can complicate the conflict by dragging unnecessary people or instances into the mix. In order to resolve the issue at hand, people need to try to not let their personal feelings intervene. 

3.      Alleged threat–People tend to respond based on how they see a situation and react not knowing the full story. If team members can work to understand the true issues and develop strategies to solve them, then their on their way to constructively managing conflict.

4.      Needs, Interests or Concerns–In order to address and resolve conflict, both parties must accommodate each other’s needs, interests or concerns. Any efforts to resolve conflicts effectively must take these points into account. It’s not surprising that satisfactory resolution of most conflicts can prove so challenging and time consuming to address.

Why Conflict Escalates

So it only takes one person to get the wrong idea to initiate the beginning of conflict.  One person may say or do something that the other person finds unsettling.  The other person may not have meant anything of it but the other person doesn’t know it. Because nothing is confronted both parties read off each other giving off negativity building up conflict until it explodes or one reaches out for a resolution.

Responding to Conflict

There are a number of ways that people respond to conflict.

• Competing is a way in which one's own needs are put over the needs of others.It’s an aggressive style of communication with low regard for future relationships, and the exercise of dominance. Competing tends to result in responses that increase the level of tension.
• Accommodating, also known as smoothing, is the opposite of competing. Persons using this style yield their needs to those of others.

• Avoiding is a common response to the negative perception of conflict. "Perhaps if we don't bring it up, it will blow over". But, generally, all that happens is that feelings get built up, views go unexpressed, and the conflict festers until it becomes too big to ignore.

• Compromising is an approach to conflict in which people gain and give. While satisfactory, compromise is generally not satisfying. We each remain shaped by our individual needs and don't necessarily understand the other side very well. We often retain a lack of trust and avoid risk-taking involved in more collaborative behaviors.

• Collaborating is the combining of individual needs and goals toward a common goal.Collaboration requires communication and cooperation in order to achieve a better solution than either individual could have achieved alone.

·      Confronting is also described as problem solving, integrating, collaborating or win-win style. It involves the conflicting parties meeting face-to-face and collaborating to reach an agreement that satisfies the concerns of both parties. This style involves open and direct communication which should lead the way to solving the problem

Positive Outcomes of Conflict

• ·         Increased Productivity
• ·         Better Decision Making
• ·         Stronger Team

Negative Outcomes of Conflict

• ·         Low Team Morale
• ·         Decreased Productivity
• ·         Biased Decision Making
• ·         Divided team

Types of Conflict

Conflict is a natural and inevitable aspect of working within a group.

Personal Conflict – Is commonly caused when there is a disagreement through which the parties involved perceive a threat to their needs, interests or concerns.

Technical Conflict – Refers to the problems encountered using hardware and software needed to carry out our project.

Personality Clashes– generated from people’s perceptions or emotions toward one another. 

Leadership – Conflict may arise between a project manager and team member due to managerial styles.

Personal Conflict

When working within a group you have to expect problems will arise as different work members have different ethics and ways of doing things than you do. You have to expect that your workmates will have different wants and needs and styles. When a conflict arises within a team setting, it is possible that it may involve more than one member and have more than two sides.

Within our group we have had some minor clashes with work ethic and styles.

When resolving our issues we, as a group sat down and communicated each members concerns and motives. This has enables us to address the problems at hand as well as bringing it to the attention of the members involved, allowing for them to have their say and to resolve the issues.

Technical conflict

Within our group we have had conflict with a program not working how it should or giving the desired results. This is normal when working with new software but not ideal as we don’t have excessive amounts of time to spend fixing problems.

All members of our group experienced frustrating problems with the 3D program 123D Catch which allows you to construct a 3D model from photographs. We experienced numerous errors throughout the upload and render process usually after considerable amounts of time, escalating our frustration. We also had other problems with program congestion due to too many photos and size which was only discovered by trial and error as well as model errors due to photos not matching up correctly.

This became really frustrating and almost nightmarish when trying to complete a simple model, waiting a few hours and then receiving an error.

We managed to partially resolve the issue only by trying different computers as some would work better than others due to capabilities. We have a sound model at the moment but have decided, as a group, to leave this part of the task for the end where we can focus the rest of the time to it.

Management

There are 6 main ways of dealing with conflict.

Be Open Minded:Being open minded involves trying to understand other people’s views, values, beliefs, preferences and differences. This is not about learning to agree with the person or learning to have the same values. It’s about trying to understand why they think like that or what circumstances have led them to do things like this. Or even respecting someone else’s decision (even though you don’t agree) to speak out or try something new for eg.  When the parties can learn to do this, a common ground and understanding can be reached and the path to a resolution can be made.

Focus on the Issue:There is no point focusing on other issues or instances that do not relate to this particular conflict, as this will only aggravate, get people off side and make them feel attacked. By doing this, you are getting further and further away from developing a common ground with the people involved as well as having an even more negative impact on the involved. This is not the way to resolve conflict. For a resolution to occur, the issue that has brought upon the conflict is to be the focus. This allows for both members to speak their opinions and have an even playing field, rather than one party bombarding the other with numerous negative instances where they have done wrong.

Do Not Focus on Personalities: When personalities are brought into conflicts it usually involves emotions and people’s perceptions of one another. For example a team leader lectures a team member for being late. There view of this person is that they are lazy and disrespectful. The team member thinks that the leader is only focusing on them because they dislike them or that they aren’t one of the favoured ones. These types of perceptions and views of people need to be removed from the workplace. They only create problems with members and offset the team from reaching their goals effectively.

Allow for Differences:Everyone has their own styles, preferences and ways of doing things. Leaders can lead their teams any way they see best and this may frustrate or aggravate some project members. For example one leader may be more open and general whilst the other may be more direct, or even they may get you to do something a certain way which doesn’t make sense to you. To avoid conflicts with managers and project leaders, there needs to be a solid work plan detailing principals and values as so consistency is formed and team members aren’t confused and frustrated by erratic decisions.

Resolution Must be with Conflicting Parties:For conflict to be resolved, the conflicted parties must work out the issue at hand, come to an arrangement on which the parties agree on and then move forward as a team. Issues cannot be resolved properly if it isn’t involving the conflicted parties directly. These are personal differences and must be dealt with in person otherwise the issues may not be fully resolved and further conflict may come. If these issues cannot be resolved between the members, then the project manager must be involved. The project manager would have final say on the decision or outcome. In these cases the outcome may not be in their favour as the decision is left to someone else.

Push for Alternatives:When there is conflict within a group, there is a driving force to find an alternative, wether that alternative be a resolution or not, both parties cannot stay in a constant phase of conflict. In the case of a conflict, where both members have reached a disagreement, there are two ways in which they can turn out. The best and most effective way is a resolution. A resolution will allow both parties to reconcile, address the problem and move forward for the better of the team and for themselves. The alternative is that a conflict will force for a change of action, not always being beneficial for both parties, one may lose out from either their opinion or maybe the group they were in. This is a consequence of not working out a resolution.  

Resolution

Influence Factors

There are many different circumstances that can influence or force a person to come to a resolution with the conflicting party.

Importance: Is it a must that you have things your way? Is the friendship one that you want to keep or remain on good terms? These are factors one must consider before starting or resolving conflict.By analysing the importance of an altercation by the outcome or relationship, one can assess wether conflict or a resolution is needed.

Time Constraints: Time can really influence ones decision making when it comes to resolving conflict. Time shortages can expose the importance of certain decisions or situations and then dictate the outcome.

Short Term or Long Term: Consider whether a resolution is needed for the short term or long term. If there is no need for a long term resolution then maybe it isn’t worth working one out.

Benefits

Increased Understanding:

-Team member’s awareness of the situation

-Each member’s insight to achieve individual goal

Increased Group Organization:

-Stronger mutual respect

-Renewed faith to work together as a group

-Reunion teamwork cooperation

Improved Self-Knowledge:

-Team member examine their goals in close detail

-Team member aware of things that are most important to their roles

-Sharpening team member’s focus

-Enhancing team member’s effectiveness

Week 10 - Group Presentation Review (Conflict)

Team Name - Aerial Ropeway

Team Members – Paul, Roschelle, Shaun, Eugelyn, Jesharelah

CLARITY OF THE ORAL PRESENTATION
For the oral aspect of the presentation, the group members appeared to be reading directly from the slides or their papers and therefore was less engaging and also communicates the fact that they were not completely prepared for the presentation. The group members were softly spoken and could have been clearer during their presentation. 

CLARITY OF THE WRITTEN PRESENTATION
The written presentation was very content heavy in sections which made it difficult to read. 

DISTINCTIVENESS AND SPECIFICITY OF THE EXAMPLES
The group included some examples, however they were generic and vague and didn’t apply specifically to the group and the their own experiences during the project. However the video helped address some of the key points for their topic and appeared to be well thought out.

THE CONCEPTUAL CONTEXT
Despite the excessive written content, the group was still able to demonstrate their knowledge through talking about and summarising the information they presented. 
The students in the group, effectively conveyed their understandings of the topic throughout the video, however did not relate it back to their actual work in great detail.  

Week 9/10 - Weekly Progress

These two weeks were really busy weeks for us as we had our Major Milestones due on the 6^th May (Week 9) and our group presentation the following week on the 14^th May (Week 10).

We didn’t get a lot of work done week 9, due to each member focusing on their own individual submissions and blog updates. We did manage to develop our Illustrator image a bit further, working with the pen tool. 

We needed to go around each gradient (section) of colour with the pen tool to create the shape and fill it in. This was quite time consuming.

Week 10 saw myself working on our group presentation. I instructed the group to continue working on their section of the Illustrator file.

I wanted my groups presentation to be captivating and entertaining so the previous week we went and filmed some clips to aid our presentation.

I then created two short 1 minute clips inside our video presentation that were cinematic to try and interest our audience. These videos were time consuming, but did the job, and by the reviews of our peers, they loved it.

Individual Milestone

Introduction

It has been 8 weeks of working together as a team to reach our goal of creating a Suprematist Sculpture. At the beginning, we were all unclear on exactly what the project was and how we would actually put it into practice as there was very little information in the brief for this project. We were all very interested in the project; it was the one that appealed to us the most, so we were very curious as to what was involved. To gain more knowledge on the programs that would be assisting us complete the project, we set out researching as well as developing a team schedule, individual tasks, blogs and the wiki.

Groups Performance Weekly Tasks

During the initial part of our project we will be assigning weekly roles until we have a firm footing on this project. Once established, we will break into specialised roles based on our skills and interests.

There are

• Replicating Russel’s designs of a Supermatist Sculpture consisting of a hand sketch of a Honda CB750 and MV Augusta Photograph combined to create one Motorcycle.  
• 123D Catch Model of the MV Augusta.
• Creating a Vector copy of the Supermatist Sculpture Collage using Adobe Illustrator and outputting at a 16:9 banner 3m tall.

Our group has developed a weekly task plan to keep us on track.

Week 1: Development of personal CVs to choose projects.

Week 2: Establish group, group leader and tasks, Back Brief.

Week 3: Individual research on assigned topic. (MV Augusta/ CB750 Bikes, Programs, Tutorials)

Week 4: Continue research on individual topics, wiki development.

Week 5: Construct model of MV Augusta Bike using 123D Catch

Week 6: 123D Catch development, wiki construction, Illustrator Tutorials. 

 Week 7: BREAK – work on illustrator vector copies of collage. 

Week 8: Continue Illustrator work, Develope Individual Milestones.   

Week 9: Create presentation on Conflict (Research, Power Point, Videos).

Week 10 - 11: Continue working towards final submission.

Week 12: Finalise Wiki, all resources up to date and uploaded onto wiki and individual blogs, construct final group presentation.

Week 13: Final Presentation.

Having a static task plan to keep to has helped our team complete tasks by the set time. Because of the amount of jobs and complexity of each, it’s daunting and hard to make a start. We were at first very disorientated on what we should be doing and how it should be done. None of us had ever done anything like this before which made it harder to get a solid footing in order to start. Once the tasks were appointed and a task completion schedule was made, we had direction. We were able to see who was covering what, and what exactly had to be done by the set date.

Our group is currently up to date and on track in order to complete our goal and final presentation in week 13.

Individual Performance and Contribution

We elected each member tasks in relation to their strengths and history. As well we agreed to assist on any task that was behind or needed extra help. We have all assisted in some form or another in each task; we are a team and are working toward the same goal.  

Summary of roles completed

• Documenter
• 123D Catch Developer
• Wiki Developer
• Graphic Design
• Visual Designer
• Presentation Developer
• Researcher
• Photographer        
• Video editor

Summary of tasks

• Updating wiki weekly
• Create 3D Model of MV Augusta Bike using 123D Catch
• Researching programs and tutorials to help assist our tasks
• Assisting team with weekly tasks
• Working on Illustrator collage
• Creating presentation material
• Creating videos for wiki/ blog and presentations
• Documentation of teams progress (photo/ video) for wiki
• Keeping group on track

Milestone

As a result of the tasks I have completed and my own personal goals I have chosen 3 aspects to focus on for my Individual milestone. 

• Professional Illustrator work
• Professional Documentation (Presentation/ Wikki)
• Dedicated and Supportive Team Leader

Professional Illustrator Design

Being an architectural computing student, I have never done nor worked on anything like this project before. I have always loved bikes (Dirt Bikes / Motocross) but never delved into the history of motorbikes, mechanics or design. I also have never worked with Adobe Illustrator before despite doing a lot of graphic design. So for this milestone I wanted to focus on the construction professionalism and quality of my after effects work. I will be grading my performance of this milestone through the quality and realism of my image.

I hope to further my skills and knowledge of Illustrator to apply it to other projects I am involved in further down the track.  

Professional Documentation

I have set up a small business for myself doing photography and Video. I’ve been doing photography for the past 5 years and Video for the past 2 years. In this time I have directed and edited a number of videos, 2 for Sony music and X-factor finalists. I have taken photos for famous bands such as Paramore, Linkin Park, The Offspring and may many more. In the past year I have also started doing wedding photography and videography. This type of photography however is more documentary rather than fabricated.

I wanted to apply my previous knowledge and skills to this project by documenting my team’s progress and setbacks in a professional way in order to help present the team’s project. This visual aid will help captivate the audience and display the team’s hard work, collaboration and dedication in achieving completion of this project. 

Dedicated and Helpful Team Leader

Being the team leader of my group, it is my role to make sure all team members are on task and have the quality of work required ready by the due date. Being in a group of 3, it is also a requirement to help and assist any group member with any existing queries or at least help to find a solution.

Through this project I want to establish experience leading a small team which will help me for future projects and my own business where I need to lead a team.     

Reflection

I have been working on achieving my Individual Milestone and have made considerable progress. I’m looking forward to fulfilling my Major Milestones and also my own personal aspirations.