reflection diary

4*4 projects
At the beginning of this team, we did the 4*4 projects. All of us has learnt a lot from these projects.
The first one is to do a movie to show who is Preston. At first, I really don’t know how to do this because I don’t know how to film a movie. I think it is it is too different between photo and movie and I never do this before, so I was nervous about this work. Also I don’t know what is Preston, who is Preston, so I don’t know how to star. Then I worked with Zeo. She told me we should started form the history, now and future of Preston, include building, resource in Preston etc. Then I did some research about church in Preston and Zeo did the history, now and future. But we try to put all the things together in iMovie, we failed, both of us not good at computer, but I learnt how to use phone to do a small movie and did my part on my phone. After this project, I learnt how to do a small film and how to define a thing from different aspects.

The second project is make 3 A2 poster. I think it is really hard to understand the meaning of the question. After translate all the words and look the question again and again, I had a little idea of this project. I decide to do the language in Preston. I try think about the history, now and the future of the languages in Preston. In the past, there are only English in Preston. As to now, because of UCLAN, there are many overseas students in Preston, so I find the students from different countries and let them sign their country’s name on the poster in their first language. Also because of these overseas students, there are many small restaurants from different countries opened in City Center. I took picture of the menus as well. Then think about the future, I suppose that more and more Chinese will come to Preston, and people from all the word will visit Preston as well. Although, there also only English in some place, because this UK, people’s first language is English, so I collect many English posters and some ADs of some shop in Preston and put them together.This is the second poster I showed. The third poster is about translation. After this project, I seem to understand that at the same time, we need to highlight our own ideas, own thinking.

As to the 4.3 project. I have a new understanding of design. Before this, I think design is very abstract, it is too hard, difficult. But after this project, I think design is what we need, which style we like. I also missing when I got this project, then I just try to find a story in Preston. I went to a church and listened stories about it. But I found some local language that I never learnt in the book. Then I think about the UK students in China and the Chinese students in UK. At last, I think my design idea. We need a stage to show Chinese culture to let more people to understand China. This stage also can show many different culture from different countries in Preston. So we need to build a culture square to show all of these.