ICP Mid-Semester Reflection

1. My role in the project and project group

My role in the Project group
At this stage, I'm helping out in getting sponsors for the venue and catering for our event as everyone else in the group, doing mostly PR stuff to prepare for our upcoming event. I actually got a few friends who are willing to help me to pass our ideas to the people they know in cafe/bar industry. But because we were waiting for Peter Mac's reply before, so the proposal has not been sent until now, I've called my friends last night again to confirm that we are now officially corporate with On Track @ Peter Mac, he seems very happy for us as well, I'll send out the proposals in the weekend. And also start to make some phone calls in the weekdays.

I'm actually pretty happy to do everything I can, since Prof-Comm this course provide us lots of opportunities to explore in the different disciplinary (journalis/pr/media). I would like to apply what I have learned in the class on this project, so basically I'm pretty much working on anything I can do at the moment.


My role in the project
On the event that night, I will be focusing on the filming for the night, and also be doing post-editing after the event finished.


2. Progress I've made to date

I have to admit that our project wasn't go too far until now, we have just got the confirmation and support from On Track@ Peter Mac yesterday. But positive thinking, despite that we have been wasting for a lot of time on waiting, we now have more confidence (because of the confirmation of the support of Peter Mac) and motivation (because of the tight time frame) on producing this project.

Everyone of us are more cautious about each process, and each step we are making, as well as more concentrate on the project than before, which is good i think. Because from now on, we will be supervising for each other, and help with each other. I think we will be able to make a good project as what we expected, just that we will need to spend much more time than others from now, but i'm sure everyone would be happy with that.


3. Collaborative & other problems that have appeared and the solutions you have applied to them.

So far we haven't have much problems in group collaboration. My group members are all happy to help out each other, and all contribute equally in the project. Everyone also stick to their own role, applying different specialties on the project. Two boys are now designing the template for flier and poster. We girls are working on proposals and getting sponsors for venue and extra gift will be given in lucky draw in the event.


4. The interdisciplinary nature of the project and course

The most important thing to working in a interdisciplinary environment, I think it's to get to know each other's personality and character, and work on the line of group agreement. I personally quite conscious of a group's harmony and unity, I'd like to work in a group that everyone are interested and motivated, rather than just doing their own work individually. Everyone's have their own way to do things and their style of talking, to understand each other's character would help a lot in group process and reduce misunderstandings.

The group commitment contract and project management (the schedule of the project progress, like what should be done at this stage..etc) are therefore crucial to ensure a group progressing timely at each stage. Yes, project management, this would be the one my group should improve i think. We didn't list down a schedule of our group progress, therefore we are swing around here and there, and hence wasted lots of time.


I'm glad I take this course, which does provide me a different working environment than before. It's really nice to work with new people, although it could be risky to work with someone does not have the same enthusiasm as yours, working with people from different disciplinary can really brainstorm much more fresh ideas, and different solutions for the problems.

Overall, I expect that I can improve and gain a lot in my communication skills, collaborative skills and social networking after finish this project.

And I believe I will :)