Welcome to my grade 12 MPOL!

Successes:

           Producer:

1. • This role was outside of my comfort zone because it put me in the spotlight, it was significantly more pressure, and it involved my involvement in every step of the movie instead of just one part of the movie.
   • It was a success because I collaborated well with various people and was able to tell them things they did not necessarily want to do. 
   • When I was working with an especially difficult teammate, I took steps to communicate with the teacher about the situation and ask for help when I needed it. 
   • When my director went away for a family vacation, I had to take a more prominent role in helping the editors with the movie – which was a stretch for me because editing is not one of my strengths. Knowing this about myself, I found a way to use my strengths and still see the editing completed. I was not involved in any of the actual editing but I got a team of people together to help the editors out and I would daily look at what they were creating and offer help. 
   • Organization and taking a leadership role can be difficult for me due to the pressure, and managing more tasks, but overall I think I did really well and rose to the occasion. I learned to bring Timbits as bribes!
   • I believe during this project I also showed a lot of agency and resilience which was one of my goals in my VMV. I was able to successfully make plans and organize people and more importantly I was able to be flexible and make new plans when things fell apart. 
   • Another one of my VMV goals was to create work that I am proud of and this movie is one of my favourite projects I have ever created. I showed my family, friends, and random relatives the final project because of well how our hard work turned out. 

Set Backs

      Essay Writing:

• Essay writing is difficult! It does not come naturally to me – my brain is more inclined towards math and science. When I learned we were doing an essay project I did not have a great mindset about it and I saw it as a big obstacle I would need to overcome.
• I found it hard to be excited about other aspects of the project because the essay was looming over me. 
• I worked through this by choosing a topic I was actively interested in learning about to make it less of a checklist and more personal to me.
• I also asked for help ahead of time knowing that I would need it. I sent my essay to a lot of people for feedback and started writing it before we were even assigned it to be written because I knew it would take a lot of time. This connects to my VMV goal of setting aside work blocks ahead of time so I don’t get behind or overwhelmed. 
• Another VMV goal that this project helped me work on was giving others feedback. I recognize that writing doesn’t come naturally to me and so I haven’t always been confident that I give meaningful feedback to my peers. With this project though I gave many people feedback and decided to focus more on the things I knew they were missing or sentences I found confusing, instead of trying to find all the little mistakes. 
• I learned that I can still create work I am proud of even if it is something I don’t enjoy or doesn’t come naturally to me. 
• I learned that I have systems in place to help me when I need it and accessing those systems is beneficial. 

My VMV Progress:

In conclusion I am really proud of the work and learning I have done so far this year. While I still have multiple areas I can improve on I am just really happy about how far I have come in so many other areas and I am excited to see what we are doing next.