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Communication
When members of the team weren't present at school it became vital to be able to not let this hinder the group, as time was of the essence. Everyone had to interpret what had to be done and what they could do in their own time or without others so it could be ensured that work continued.
When doing the "partner in lockdown" activity I was lucky to have a partner also in quarantine at the same time as me, so we were able to use our WebEx meetings effectively, both having some more time at home to work on it. It also meant we were able to understand each other's problems more than if one were still at school.
Communication was also found in the form of the assignments we had to present, and as mentioned before, it was important to use visual communication to make our idea clear and informative. The expo stalls needed to be clean and simple whilst still teaching customers about the product; the slides used the same colour scheme with few amounts of writing and large statistics to draw people in; the infomercial needed to flow and be easy to understand whilst still being impressive to capture people's attention.

Collaboration
Collaboration pairs with communication well, for as mentioned above we needed to work together effectively and productively to produce a good end result. Since nearly all our work was done in groups we all were pushed to learn how to involve each other's ideas and how each member could actively contribute to the work.

Creativity
Creativity has always been one of my strongest skills and didn’t require much development during this course. It was fun to be able to play around with such creative freedom in the projects; notably the infomercial, where a lot of my talents come in the form of filmmaking and editing. However, there were times where we struggled to come up with new fresh ideas - as towards the end of the term most people are tired and stressed, especially for me I started facing creative burnout, where pumping out creative things became labouring and exhausting. This is where collaboration came into play, where we were able to bounce off one another's ideas to keep coming up with new things or expand upon the current ones.

Critical Thinking
A subband of critical thinking I noticed we used a lot was transfer of knowledge. Since I've learnt a lot in terms of presenting from my experience in debating and from watching good infomercials and seeing people pitch on shows such as Shark Tank, I noted what they were able to do well, and how I would be able to use the skills showed in our work.

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Over the duration of the course, I have not only learnt new skills, but have had the opportunity to grow and develop pre-existing ones.
These included presentation skills - both in terms of display and verbally communicating - which was a key component to being able to do well in the subject. In order to sell well to the customer they must be able to understand in depth what it is you are trying to sell, and it must be in a simple and easy to perceive format. This could take form as large numbers for statistics with little writing on the slides or simple design that got the message across clearly. It was all about how to make your presentation enticing and interactive, also using humour and slogans.
We were all also pushed to get on top of time management, as working with strict deadlines meant everyone in the group had to be on top of their work and working together. When the work needs to be presented on a certain date, there are very few extensions that can be granted: this meant that if there were any problems that arose they would have to be solved very quickly and orderly to continue to progress.

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Before the expo, we faced several issues. Also we had confirmed our images had been sent to be printed at Officeworks, in A3, we were not informed that they had not been printed. Finding this out only at the expo itself, this was extremely frustrating; as the school has been having issues with IT, very few student laptops connect to the printers, and therefore we were not able to print the papers ourselves. This caused great worry to us, considering it was our prototype that needed to be shown - without our paper (which also included our business cards and sign) our stall would have been very empty.
However, we were able to use our problem solving skills to manoeuvre around this problem. As a last resort, a teacher at the hub was kind enough to print our sheets.

The expo itself certainly didn’t get off to a great start - most of us were scrambling together what we had as we realised there was a lot less time than we thought.
I think it tested our communication and collaborative skills greatly - after running back from the hub Haeun and I had to quickly assemble the remainder of the stall, and Christina was absent at a meeting. Essentially we were constantly talking to each other through every process to make sure we were all on the same track - with so many things being rushed or unorganised, we had to work together as a team to make sure the end product was decent.

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I received good feedback from parents on my pitching. As I have two years experience in debating and a background of theatre and acting, I didn't rely on any script or notes; each pitch was new and improvised on the spot. I introduced ourselves by firstly asking if they had a lawn in their backyard. Then, when most parents replied with a yes, I asked if they knew the potential harmful downsides to having them. This then opened up to me explaining the issue that motivated us to create this product, seeing as people were generally surprised to hear they might be negative; I went on to describe the irrigation and pesticides required, including rainwater runoff that endangered aquatic life.
I took some inspiration and notes from seeing other people pitch at fairs, such as the Royal Adelaide Show and on marketing shows. One thing in common was that they all tried to get on the same level as the potential customer and avoid coming off as preachy: keeping this in mind I started relating what I was talking about to my life at home so the parents understood just how much of an everyday thing this really is. When they were shocked to hear about the downsides I matched their energy - replying with "I know, I was shocked too when I first started researching it!" Throughout the pitch I talked about my own lawn at home and related it to our product, talking about how when I started planting native plants in my garden I was able to see the improvement. How much of it was true I don't know, but it definitely helped bring it down to earth and into our backyards.

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In addition to good, clear presentation, the table needed one more thing; bribery. Something to draw people into in the first place. Food is the most popular choice, and although not very original, we figured most people would simply go for store-bought lollies and individually wrapped candies. Because of this I took it upon myself to stay up quite late making brownies from scratch so we could show a little love - and who doesn't love brownies? Originally we wanted to put little toothpicks with plant shoot designs to represent a plant growing out of compressed soil, but unfortunately there was not enough time to allow for this. Still, I brought a nice basket and cut them up into pieces in cupcake holders which looked good. This was how we brought in lingering parents. As they wandered by I called out and asked if they'd like a brownie - though they didn't always take one, I started introducing our product anyways.

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When trying to come up with new creative and innovative ideas to present our stall, it became clear that we needed an enticing aspect or two to make us pop out. This was hard to find, as we had very little time and few resources.

In terms of presentation we figured few people would have much in thought for the design of the table itself. We wanted to visually communicate our idea as best as we could so visitors left with a good understanding of the general vibe and tone of our stall, along with our business cards so they could learn more. We looked at several gardening magazines and websites as well as garden aesthetics on Pinterest for the general tone and colours they used; we thought it was important to stay away from brighter, louder colours and focus more on "natural" ones. Hence we used mostly less vibrant greens and browns to bring an earthy vibe.

For the table design, after researching on Kmart and cheap household item websites, we came across a cheap tablecloth in an olive green. It was quite large, and when we assembled our stall we were very lucky to have access to one of the larger tables as it fit the tablecloth very well and allowed us to present our items openly and neatly. In addition to this, we bought the woven placemat seen above to showcase our seeds and business cards, contrasting in colour and making them pop out as the showpiece of our stall.

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This prototype was first designed for the 5 minute pitch, and required very little redesign for the expo, as most of our feedback was on the general idea - the content of the magazine was less important. A good selling point was the idea that everything was local, including partnering with small local businesses to write articles on to promote their product. Even the photos themselves are taken by Adelaide-based photographer Andy Rasheed from his website eyefood.com: I've actually worked with him before, as he does car photography for my parents' business. It felt nice to know the photographer for our magazine rather than just using basic stock images - it also meant that we were using photos of real South Australian native plants, compared to American ones off the internet.

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After searching through many websites, we eventually came across standards for printing; most companies required a lot of information and contact details to get a quote.
We looked at several businesses for typical magazine subscriptions, including Better Homes and Gardens which we referenced as a competitor semi-regularly. From finding out they had several periods for subscription to give the perception that people would save money by subscribing for longer, we thought this would be a good choice.
It became evident that digital subscriptions were also very popular, and was also far cheaper in terms of not having to print, however this removed the aspect of having seeds or care packages delivered to your home.

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There's no escaping it - publishing print magazines necessarily means using natural resources and creating some degree of waste. But technological and social advances mean that today, any harmful impact on the environment can be greatly reduced, and sometimes even turned into a net benefit.

Read on for a collection of helpful tips, which we gathered from speaking to three magazine makers who uphold sustainability in everything they do: The Earth Issue, Beside magazine, and Money, Fashion, Power by Fashion Revolution.

1. Recycled, post-consumer paper stocks
This is an obvious one, but here are some specific brands of paper stocks some magazines use.
- Cyclus Offset: 100% recycled, uncoated, natural white offset paper used by Money, Fashion, Power.
- Rolland Enviro: 100% post-consumer paper made of fibres from recycled paper and cardboard, used by Beside.
- EnviroTop: 100% recycled, matte-coated paper used by Offscreen.

The Earth Issue also uses recycled material for packing their deliveries. Founder Elena Cremona tells me that she asked her local post office for used envelopes, and got sponsored by Eco-Craft for their packaging.

2. Printing can be zero-waste
Fashion Revolution is a non-profit with the mission of ensuring that the fashion industry values people, the environment, creativity and profits in equal measure. They recently launched their first print magazine, which you can flick through in our video review below. Heather Knight, Head of Branding and Communications tells me that they worked with zero-waste printers Seacourt for the issue, and used LightTouch™, the world's first waterless LED drying printing press.

"The LED instantly cures the pure, clean, waterless ink dots onto the paper to make the fanzine's images sharper and more vibrant," she says. Seacourt is also carbon positive, powered by 100% renewable energy, and close to becoming Net Positive, which means that for every magazine they print, it would benefit the economy, environment and society.

3. Self distribution and peer-to-peer delivery
In order to work around the wastage and financial burdens of traditional distribution models, Beside painstakingly contacted individual bookstores in North America. "Then, we organised a distribution road trip from Nova Scotia all the way to Oregon," the magazine's editor-in-chief Catherine Métayer tells me. "In the end, we only reached 3% waste. And the relationships we've built with our retailers are personal and long-lasting."

Works That Work's social distribution model is another novel approach - the video below explains it really well, but it basically asks readers to sell the magazine to their local bookstores. They also created a live document where readers who are due for a trip and have space in their luggage can offer to deliver copies on their way.

4. Work with local talent
Many of the practices that reduce waste and harm has financial benefits too. Like a lot of magazines, Beside works with a list of contributors from across the world, often asking local writers or photographers to take up nearby assignments.

5. Knowing how many issues to print
This is a really tricky one, but there are definitely ways to work around the unknowns. The Earth Issue made digital mock-ups and got in touch with stockists to estimate the need before going to print. Beside pre-launched their magazine on Kickstarter to gauge public interest, and after the first issue sold out in six weeks, they decided not to reprint, thus turning the issue into a 'limited edition'.

Fashion Revolution similarly launched a pre-order campaign to know exactly how many copies they needed to print. "It also meant we had money upfront to spend on printing," Heather said, adding that they used a simple platform called Celery to manage the pre-orders.

6. Choose the format with the least wastage
If the format of your publication is up for consideration, it could be worth checking with your printers to see if there are styles that are more waste-saving. Heather tells me that Money, Fashion, Power was created in a dimension that had the least amount of waste offcuts (170 x 240mm).

7. Offset your footprint with good events
We can definitely take a page out of Beside's magazine, because for their next issue, they're going an extra step to reduce their footprint. "We're pairing each of our launch events with a cleanup initiative," Catherine tells me, "We'll be gathering our community for riverbank cleanups, alongside local nonprofits such as Surf the Greats in Toronto, Coeur Intelligent in Montreal, United by Blue in Philadelphia and PurNat in Quebec City."

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There's no escaping it - publishing print magazines necessarily means using natural resources and creating some degree of waste. But technological and social advances mean that today, any harmful impact on the environment can be greatly reduced, and sometimes even turned into a net benefit.

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One crucial aspect of our research was finding the right market for it, and hearing responses on whether people would find our product interesting. So, we created a survey early on to get responses as soon as we could. We were limited by the fact it couldn't be sent out to the school, which affected our ability to get a good sample size; hence we went on to send it to just about every person we knew. All in all, we were able to receive responses from nearly 100 people, which was good enough.
Through the survey we were able to find some good statistics - however these weren't as vital as we had thought. It was good to see whether our product could actually be sold, however.
The statistic that 68.9% of nearly 100 students haven't seen a worm in their backyard for several months was a good shock factor to use in our pitches, as it's a large number with impact and supports our analogy.

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How well do you know your garden? Our group is studying how replacing turf lawns with natural biodiversity invites the ecosystem back into people's backyards. A natural backyard may include native grasses, trees and bushes, and will generally attract a higher amount of bugs and bees.

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For NewStem we needed to source where we would be getting the native seeds from. Although we knew there would be large businesses that sell bulk quantities of seeds and grasses, more for pasture or larger scale projects, we weren't sure what would be the best option to go with. We also learnt that the seeds and grasses can be very expensive sometimes - one was $700 for 10 kilos - so it was also an issue of what would be best to be sold in small packets.

We found two websites: nativeseeds.com.au and gardenexpress.com.au. The first mainly specialises in pasture and rejuvenating large areas of land, eg. farms, so we figured it would be less suitable. The latter worked better, having plants such as flowers, but they were also quite expensive.

Finally, after searching through several more websites and companies, we settled upon The Seed Collection and Australian Seed, as they suited our needs the best.

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During today's lesson we gave our five minute pitch of NewStem to the class and three judges. Although parts were quite rushed, I believe we were able to fit all components required - we did have to use a lot of communication skills however, as there were chapters that we thought others were doing but later learnt otherwise. What I think we could have improved upon was that we didn't go terribly above and beyond - although our research was quite thorough, I felt as though we could have built upon the product itself more.
In the future I would like to be better prepared just in terms of presenting - avoid using cue cards as much as possible.

When getting feedback we also found that it is quite important to speak slowly too; I think in my experience with debating I was able to work on this, but it's still something we can build upon in the future.

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Although our original idea for Innov8 was NewStem, we briefly toyed with the idea of creating an eggshell grinder, keeping in the same theme of gardening. In class, gathering in two lines, we have small 30 second pitches to a partner to get feedback on our idea. The feedback we received was in the form of the following questions:

- Where are the egg shells being sourced?
We plan on partnering with food production factories to use leftover eggshells that would otherwise go to waste to provide a natural pesticide.
- Is it biodegradable?
As it is completely natural, yes. Eggshells decompose well eventually in soil, breaking down and adding calcium.
- Do the eggshells rot or give off an unpleasant odour?
The bad smell typically associated comes from sulphur in boiled egg whites; when dried the eggshells have so odour.
- Is it a viable long-term solution?

Though the eggshell grinder requires refilling, as long as we need pesticides and as long as factories keep throwing out eggshells it's a viable solution.

We looked at the above website briefly as a source for the information, but mostly the responses were on the spot.

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The reason diatomaceous earth works is because it acts like small shards of glass for bugs and beetles.

These shards cut and scratch the pests, which either kills them or deters them from returning. Snails and slugs will die if they try to cross the small shards.

The eggshells texture is a perfect match for diatomaceous earth and works in exactly the same way.

To use this method you will need to start saving your eggshells.

Simply clean them out after you have used them, dry them and store them in an air-tight container.

Once you have enough, grind them up with a coffee grinder, a mini food chopper, a mortar and pestle or by your own alternative method.

The eggshells should be ground into a fine sand.

Once the eggshells are crushed, simply sprinkle the powder directly onto and pests you can see and on top of and around all your plants.

The one downside of using this method is that it is not targeted. It will kill any type of insect, even beneficial ones.

For the best results, it is best to focus the powder on key problem areas, rather than spread it across your whole garden.

What do you think of this garden hack? Have you ever used this method before?

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How to use leftover eggshells for pest control

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The reason diatomaceous earth works is because it acts like small shards of glass for bugs and beetles. These shards cut and scratch the pests, which either kills them or deters them from returning. Snails and slugs will die if they try to cross the small shards.

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As we are currently looking into the idea of an eggshell grinder, seeing as the magazine idea may be too broad, we began researching the idea of eggshells as an "alternative natural pesticide".

The above website was a good starter point, as we found there was a range of uses for eggshells rather than just for putting around plants, widening the opportunities for our product. From homegardeners.in, we found they were used for:
- Fertiliser. When they break down, the shells add nutrients (such as calcium) to the soil, enrichening the plants.
- Pest control. You can crush or grind them (direct cause for needing a grinder) into a fine powder to sprinkle on leaves to remove beetles and bugs or around the base to deter slugs.
- Bird food. Gardeners may have chickens or other birds in their backyard, and the shells are a great source of calcium for them.
- Seed starters. This relates directly to our supposed business - the website gives instructions on how to sterilise and prepare the whole shells to plant seeds in.
- Repel animals. By leaving them in larger chunks, they can be spread around larger plants in garden beds to deter animals and bugs from attacking and eating the crops.

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Eggs contain full of proteins, vitamins, minerals and are most nutritious food in the world. On an average, a person consumes 100-150 eggs annually.Without knowing the proper use of eggshells many people drop them in kitchen waste bin or garbage disposal. The commercial methods for Eggshells can be used as fertilizer or as calcium in animal feed. It contains calcium carbonate that dissolves in various acids including vinegar used for cooking.

Eggshell is an outer covering of an egg. Eggshells are rich in calcium and other minerals that help the garden to thrive. Crush eggshells into tiny pieces and use them as compost. Without eggshells, plants will not grow faster. It prevents blossom end rot in plants like tomatoes and squash. It helps to build cell walls and promotes plant growth.

Eggshells are treated as organic pest control for controlling pests such as insects, mites, and weeds. They are 100% effective in curbing slugs and other pests.

Fertilizer

Eggshells can be used as fertilizer. It's a great way to add calcium to your compost. They have high surface area to volume ratio and they decompose very quickly. Grind eggshells with mixer or grinder to settle down in the soil. It takes time to break down and be absorbed by plants roots.

Finely crushed eggshells can be mixed with organic matter to thrive new plants in the spring season. Try mixing eggshells with coffee grounds that are rich in nitrogen, helps to reduce the acidity of the soil and aerate it.

A simple procedure is to drop eggshell into a small container of apple cider vinegar. Now soak it for 2 days and apply the mixture to itchy skin. It gives complete relief to your skin burns.

Pest control

Eggshells can be used to control pests. Crush eggshells and make a fine powder using grinder or mixer. To use eggshell as organic pest control sprinkle the shell powder on plant leaves. Beetles and other pests cause great damage to the plant leaves. Beetles don't like it and start moving around. It won't kill them immediately, but slowly after few days. For slug and snail control, sprinkle shell powder around the base of the plant.

Birds also benefit by taking calcium supplied from eggshells in their diet. Especially the female requires more calcium, before and after laying eggs. To prepare bird food, sterilize the shells by baking them at 120°C. Crush them and mix with bird-loving seeds, suet, and mealworms.

Seed starters

Eggshells are bio-degradable. It makes excellent no waste-seed starters. For this preserve deeper half shells. Sterilize shells by boiling them for 30 minutes. With nail make a hole at the bottom of the shell for drainage. Add moist soil and seeds accordingly. When sprouts appear to plant them into bigger pots or garden for proper growth.

Repel animals

Animals often visit your garden for prey to consume leaves and fruits of plants. To protect crop plants from animals, make use of shells in your garden. Make crushed eggshells into a fine powder and apply it to the garden soil. Even deer dislike the smell of albumen in the shell powder and stay away from the garden that smells like raw eggs. Be careful using this method, the smell may attract vermin that can eat eggshells.

Precautions

Be careful as you are spreading eggshell powder in the garden.

Keep it away from children and pets.

Store eggshell powder in a dry place.

Store eggshells every time you consume eggs. As eggshells are cheap and an effective way to control pests.

Recommended Readings:

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For this lesson I grouped with Christina and Haeun. In this task we had a timer set for 20 minutes to list as many problems as we could, aiming to get at least 50. This was a lot harder than I had thought - when it came to thinking of issues we faced, I couldn't realistically think of many issues I face in my day to day life. Some of the problems we came up with were very broad - including the pandemic in entirety. Although I tried to stay away from environmental issues, as they were an easy choice and overdone, we had to resort to listing them. In the end we ultimately resorted to listing down just anything that came to mind.
As the task was very simple, we didn't have to do a lot of collaborating - however, we were still able to work together as we bounced off one another's ideas to continue creating new ones.

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This website was of great use to our group as we could cite simple statistics that could be used directly in our spin-off video. After learning about how important infographics and statistics are to infomercials, we thought it was important to get some reliable data that we could use to make an impact - so, using these stats we added to our script, including adding the first fact stated above into our introduction to truly give an idea of how terrible the problem of scamming is in Australia.

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2040 is a documentary made in 2019, directed by Damon Gameau, which aims to uncover the real, possible solutions to  climate change issues as we know them. Going between chapters of life currently vs what it could be like in twenty years time, he talks to several experts on how we can reduce emissions and create a healthier landscape for the future generations. One issue Gameau noted in his film was the problem with transportation, and how we can reduce carbon emissions. He explored electric and self-driving cars, and how we should expect to get used to using a lot more public transport, or the notion of having public cars. Having fewer vehicles on the streets means roads can be reduced in size, inviting back natural wildlife and greenery and having more room for pedestrians. With fewer cars also means most parking space will become redundant, and so that space can be used as recreational space or for a more productive use.

Overall, I felt the film was a great insight as to coming up with real, possibly, productive solutions to current real-world issues (even if it did feel a tad repetitive and slow-moving towards the middle). It did open up the floor for new discussions and conversations about some ideas posed in the film with friends.
As I've watched it before during grade 8 geography, it was mostly revisiting topics I had seen before. One that had particularly stuck with me was the concept of sharing electricity from solar panels with other houses in a grid format - I thought this was a particularly good idea, with being able to sell or buy power, and I believe we're starting to see examples of it already. I think the notion of having to eat smaller portions of meat moving forward is also particularly important; I've seen many people promoting that idea already. It relates to the movement of going vegan which, unfortunately, already gets a lot of hate. It's clear that moving forward more people need to accept the idea of not eating triple-cheeseburger-whoppers with extra bacon because the earth can't sustain it anymore. It basically all goes back to the greed in human nature, and having to give up commodities we've all been used to being able to have without restriction. Of course, there's always going to be people promoting a bad face of any movement (plenty of hateful vegans), but it's still a valid point that needs to be made.

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As I am pretty much a film student, creating the infomercial was a ton of fun for me, even if we didn't end up going all-out with a green screen and making me wail at my computer for crashing whilst editing every sixteen minutes. Putting aside minor inconveniences, such as not being sure if the microphone on my camera was actually working and our gimbal (camera stabilizer) suddenly failing, the project went relatively smoothly. Finding a prop was no problem (I just used my wireless speaker control knob thing); more of the issues actually lay within writing the script itself. It underwent many changes, including rewriting a whole scene the night before shooting just cause it didn't have any real direction, and it was finished whilst shooting on our last day. Having Will (a friend from band) fill in for the first three characters was extremely impromptu too; originally we were meant to have different actors, but then time flew, so I brought my camera long to our concert and filmed him in three accents in different positions along the same bench. I'm grateful for having simpler videos like these to edit sometimes, where most of the work is simply cutting together footage in a seamless motion. I heard there was some issue with mixing of audio in the beginning, so I'll be sure to adjust my speakers to get a better mix in the future.

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Week 5 - Spin Off Project Filming Reflection

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Week 5 - Spin Off Project Filming Reflection

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After having finished our research, we worked on a script (very hurriedly). We spent this week filming and working on the script, being quite rushed in parts, but it went relatively okay. I felt we worked really well together as a group - sometimes we've had issues with getting off task quickly whilst shooting, but this went well.
Some things we noted in acting was the use of tone. Whilst Alisha could sometimes come off as condescending, I would sometimes say lines without enough confidence, and as we learned having the right tone and conviction with your lines is extremely important for a good video.

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The class was introduced to our first assessment, the spin-off project this week. After learning about the efficacy of good infomercials and problem solving we were tasked with creating a product or solution to a problem residents in the Unley community face, including environmental, online and social issues. I grouped with Alisha C and Swapnil, and after much deliberating we decided the concerns surrounding online or cyber safety were most prevalent and important to us; it was that or environmental issues, but we figured that would be a common topic for people to choose.
After discussing together and creating a mindmap, we settled on the idea of scam calls within the elderly community. After doing some research and reflecting on our experience with cybersafety awareness programs in primary/high school we decided that students have plenty of knowledge as to how to be safe online, but there is less information out there for people ages 60+. We then conducted research and found that millions of Australians are scammed each year, mostly through phone calls. And so, with this information in mind, our group looked into how to stop these spam calls from coming through and affecting people at risk, creating the Sailor.

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Week 3 - Infomercial & Product Pitching Reflection

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Week 3 - Infomercial & Product Pitching Reflection

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This week was my first back in school, which was nice. Our lessons were aimed at the solutions aspect, and so we were tasked with pitching the product we came up with for our partner in lockdown. The rest of the week we spent studying other infomercials and looking at the key aspects as to what made one good; it must be informative, concise, and often include at least some humour or a catchy slogan to make it memorable. This information was all available on a bbc.co.uk bitesize article, and will help us when we create our product in the spin-off project.

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In week 2, we looked at the different angles we can approach a problem in order to understand it in more depth and provide a greater solution. This included the task "Redesign your partner's lockdown", in which we were assigned partners and had to communicate effectively about our difficulties during lockdown. I found it a great activity for me to understand just how difficult it can be to address some issues, and the type of questions you need to ask and information to gather to gain a deeper insight to it.
Currently, I believe I have gained a lot of knowledge as to how to approach a problem - after completing the tasks, particularly working with my partner during lockdown, I understood how I could use these problem-solving skills in my personal life.

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Assessment - Spin-Off Project Infomercial

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Assessment - Spin-Off Project Infomercial

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Copy of THE SAILOR - Action Project Informercial HD.mp4

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Classwork - Redesign Your Partner's Lockdown

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Classwork - Redesign Your Partner's Lockdown

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Jonathon and Alisha Copy of Redesign your partner's Lockdown (Student workbook) (1)

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Pitch Script
Finding a real problem to have a solution to for Jonathon was difficult - when stuck in quarantine, the only real problem is not being allowed out. With that in mind finding a solution was hard, so I really chose the first thing that came to mind - an android. Many flaws, but every product has many flaws, and the purpose of a product pitch is to gloss over as many of them as possible. I essentially hyped it up as much as possible, stuffing a bunch of adjectives in there, and my pitch was done.

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Humour is easily a big part of my life, as I use it to make light of uneasy situations and to see the better side in things. I'd say my appreciation of beauty and excellence generally stems from my love of natural beauty, for example I usually take at least one picture of the sky everyday. I've got a big folder. Maybe too big.
My leadership skills aren't quite as natural - I like to think I've developed them after being put in confronting projects where I'm forced to take lead. As music is a big part of my life, I participate in a lot of bands or online orchestras, and where I can I like to lead the group and organise the project. This is used alongside judgement, where both skills are necessary to solve problems arising within the group. That's the other thing - I work a lot better within groups, as I find ideas are generated the best when you can bounce off other people and work together.
Again, when I work in a team I have a lot more motivation to stick to things, which is where perseverance comes into place. Whilst many others might think a task takes too much work (eg. last terms English film - finding a location for a courtroom scene, where I went to painstaking effort including contacting Burnside council to use council chambers, which didn't work out too well), I keep at it because I always want the best outcome possible, rather than taking the easy route.

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Since I'm in quarantine, I'll list down my problems I've had with that too:

- Relying on others to go shopping (end up buying wrong brands)
- Cancelled band rehearsals, not being able to go to band rehearsals
- Cancelled concerts
- Online school - poorer attention during class, less information retention
- More screen time - I end up spending more time on my phone than I would've normally
- Behind in classwork

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I have taken the VIA survey three more times in the past - my top strength in year 8 being appreciation of beauty and excellence, the same for year nine, curiosity earlier in the year and now humour. I was interested to see how it's changed over the years, but I'm not surprised to see humour as my top strength. Generally the three mentioned above as well as leadership have been common trends, and are generally what I'd use to describe myself. I was somewhat surprised by seeing judgement, although it's not terribly out of the blue, and it can definitely come in handy in many situations, namely action project.

Spirituality has for the most part always been in my lower strengths, so no surprise there (I'm not entirely sure why it's a strength). Self-regulation was no doubt to be in my lower five as well - disciplining myself is one of my goals to get better at. Although, I was surprised to see perseverance be my last strength - although I don't tend to finish my own personal projects, I try to stick to problems as much as I can and I am rarely the first to give up or try something easier.

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I like to think I'm lead by my passions in life:
- creative tasks
- creative tasks are great!! i love creative tasks, they're so fun and I put a lot more effort and time into them
- video editing
- this leads me to make a video wherever possible for an assignment (multimodal? you bet it's gonna be a video.)
- filming/photography
- photography is one of my biggest hobbies, and since I'm part of the multimedia team at school I'm often at events shooting them, eg. infinite echo
- fun fact ! the background was taken by me on my Canon 80D DSLR at Mt Barker :))
- music
- this could have a ton of subtopics. I'm very much a music student, and I love performing, composing, arranging, just anything to do with it honestly. It'll often make it's way somehow into assignments too. I'm also a huge musical theatre fan (current obsession - hamilton).

Things I'm very annoyed by:
- people not doing their part in group projects
- wet hairbrushes
- wet socks
- wet sleeves
- wet things
- essays
- non-creative tasks
- running out of storage on my SD card
- people cancelling plans at the last minute

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My top five character strengths are:
- Humour
- Appreciation of Beauty and Excellence
- Leadership
- Judgement
- Curiosity

My bottom five character strengths are:
- Honesty
- Spirituality
- Humility
- Self-regulation
- Perseverance