Now that all of the work had been done, I realized that I still had one more thing to work on, the Journals! I had only worked on two of them during the project, mostly due to the repeated restarts taking up a lot of work time each week alongside my three project-based classes and side projects. Now that the work for the modeling was finished, I had nothing else to work on other than the journals. It was a bit difficult to get started on them, details being lost after all that time. I had to review my time entries on Assembla to refresh my memory. I worked out the general flow of my time spent on the project in a quick sketch-up outline, making sure to dedicate enough time to each large section of the work process. I started out with the time I spent in the junior tests
“Where to begin?” a question I kept having to ask myself when I started. I already had 2 journals dedicated to a troubling part of the internship, so I started again at the start. It was a bit hard trying to put to words the work I had done without making it sound like either an instructional book or a lesson plan, but I managed to get through the first three. They were harder to start, looking back, compared to the other journals I did afterwards. Like with all of them though it got even more hard to not go over the 350-400 word limit. It took some time to get used to shortening myself enough not to go on too far, and extending it enough to get the point across. But by now I had moved on to the easier work.
The bulk of the journals covered the three remakes of the environment pieces. These journals though got easier to write than the others, as there was a lot of work that went into each of the remakes. A lot of the details between the remakes was the same too, so later journals could gloss over the repeated stuff. I focused on the differences and explaining the processes I took in fixing the problems from the previous versions. Overall I had to force myself to condense the info, as I went over several times, and didn't want to jumble up the dates of the journals.
I learned a lot from this internship, such as working with a professional group in the industry and working on a schedule for producing project pieces. I also learned the importance of getting directions clear and concise, rather than vague. Had I done that, I would have been able to avoid remaking the pieces repeatedly. In the end though, I did the project as directed instead of putting up a fuss over it. As long as it was suitable for the project, I was pleased with the end result.
“Where to begin?” a question I kept having to ask myself when I started. I already had 2 journals dedicated to a troubling part of the internship, so I started again at the start. It was a bit hard trying to put to words the work I had done without making it sound like either an instructional book or a lesson plan, but I managed to get through the first three. They were harder to start, looking back, compared to the other journals I did afterwards. Like with all of them though it got even more hard to not go over the 350-400 word limit. It took some time to get used to shortening myself enough not to go on too far, and extending it enough to get the point across. But by now I had moved on to the easier work.
The bulk of the journals covered the three remakes of the environment pieces. These journals though got easier to write than the others, as there was a lot of work that went into each of the remakes. A lot of the details between the remakes was the same too, so later journals could gloss over the repeated stuff. I focused on the differences and explaining the processes I took in fixing the problems from the previous versions. Overall I had to force myself to condense the info, as I went over several times, and didn't want to jumble up the dates of the journals.
I learned a lot from this internship, such as working with a professional group in the industry and working on a schedule for producing project pieces. I also learned the importance of getting directions clear and concise, rather than vague. Had I done that, I would have been able to avoid remaking the pieces repeatedly. In the end though, I did the project as directed instead of putting up a fuss over it. As long as it was suitable for the project, I was pleased with the end result.