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Delaney Lewellyn

CIBACS

April 6, 2020

Package 5

Creating the blog for the project was probably the easiest part for me. I just had to click a

button to customize my own blog and then I started, after that initial beginning, everything went

downhill. Since I am a bit of a perfectionist, designing the blog was infuriating. I kept

questioning myself on what colors and designs I should use, along with how to format all the

information. Nothing seemed to stay, and everything just seemed like a mess in my mind. All

the ideas I came up with, I just started hating.

One day I started to randomly insert colors into the blog. I found this really color water

background that I wished to use, since the blog is about swim drills, but did not know what color

would go best with it. Almost all the colors I tried look terrible or were barely visible, that was

until I stepped across this unique shade of red. For some reason this color stuck out to me and

looked somewhat decent. Because it was the only other color that looked good, my blog became

solemnly based off those two colors, red and blue.

The format and placement of information

The addition of videos

Creating social media accounts

Formatting of social media accounts

The first couple of times that I had to set up the equipment for filming, it was difficult.

This was one of the first times I had ever used a tripod and filmed professionally. I had no clue

which angels to film, even though I had looked it up the night prior, or which way would be the
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best to oversee this process. In the end, the filming and use of tripod became easier for me to use

the longer I used it.

Besides the usage of the tripods, not having gotten my own until Christmas as a gift,

before that borrowing some from my coach's, finding the best areas of lighting was also difficult.

Some of the more unique angels I wishes to film were extremely difficult considering how dark

the footage came out. Using flash mode or a flashlight did not seem to work either, those were

some options that I had researched online. Once daylight savings happened in November, this

issue almost fully dissolved with only a few issues here and there. These issues include shadows

and some darkness, since the practices I filmed were early morning ones, 5:30-6:30.

Keeping in mind of the views that more most desirable for learning, I would try to find

the best ways to set up stations in areas that caught underwater, birds eye view, and side profiles

of the drill. I thought capturing the back-side view would be interesting until I found out it was

against swim regulations to post videos of swimmer's rear ends. Even though this was not my

intension, this way of filming was considered indecent, so I had to switch up my methods a bit

differently.

A majority of the filming was done handheld. From the end of November to the end of

January, I was out of commission for serval different reasons, the removal of my wisdom teeth

and having broken my elbow. During that time period, I would still attend this morning swim

practices. Instead of setting up the tripod to film, I just filmed handheld. I got similar results;

the slight difference was that I was able to take video footage in unique places resulting in

strange angles. Commented [DL1]: make sure to implement Recovery

along with it as well
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I cannot concentrate making all my work turn out not as great as it should. Once I was able to
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finish a segment of footage for a drill, I uploaded it onto my OneDrive account. I would then

correctly label the drill so that when ready to edit, I would know which videos to select.

Besides the video footage folder, there are two more on this account. One of them

being the script outline. For every set of

The last remaining folder was made for text entries.

The majority of my challenges from this project come from video editing.

Uploading the videos onto social media platforms and blog

Coming into my Senior year, I understood that this project was supposed to be completed

and how stressful or enjoyable it could be depending on the product idea. The first thought that

came o m head as ha I didn hink I had an hing ha I enjo ed doing that much that would

make this project less stressful for me. That was until I was introduced to the idea of creating a

Kaatsu band drill blog focused on swimming. The idea did not originally come from me, but

from my swim coach. After hearing about this idea, I felt some connection to the idea, piquing

my interest that I might not feel as stressful doing it. Thanks to the little push, Under Pressure

Swim Blog was born. When going through the process of this project, I became injured, broke

my elbow, which lead to an extension of the blog, Under Pressure Recovery Blog. Completing

this project allowed me to showcase my creativity through video editing and blog design, expand

my knowledge on almost every aspect of this project, and help further open my eyes to different

tasks and opportunities. My project was both a failure and a success. I failed at the idea of time

conception (management), which lead to a stressful situation. On the other hand, I was able to

succeed in creating a blog that had multiple different teaching/learning styles (video, script, text,

voice) and because of my learning stretch: expand knowledge on video editing, learn how to
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write and create scripts and text entries, figure out how to create and manage a blog, and improve

on my writing skills.

My time management skills were not the best in completing this project. I

procrastinated in the beginning of the project and once I got my injury, I tended to

push everything aside even further. This led to a very stressful situation of trying

to get everything done all at once at the very end (even though I was told

countless times to get it done right away). REF TIMELINE OR ACTIVITY LOG

My knowledge on video editing expanded thanks to the help of YouTube clips

(REF TO RCP) and asking my peers to look over them for advice on different

way to fix or adjust it.

Being able to learn how to write the scripts and create text entries were

challenging. I struggled with script writing because I didn't understand how to lay

it out. When creating documents on the criteria that must be included in these

documents (REF TO SCRIPT CRITERIA), I was able to focus my mind a bit.

What also helped with this experience was fully understanding the drill and

asking my swim coach's help for some explanations, if I was stuck and confused

on a way of explaining some part of a drill (REF TO SCRIPT WRITINGS). On

the other hand, the text entries were a bit easier to make even though some of

them embarrassed me. They were intended to be there for the audience to connect

with a swimmer and their perspective of the drill, how they felt, and how it helped

them overall (REF TO TEXT ENTRIES). Everything was alright and went

smoothly with them; besides the fact I co ldn implement how the drills were

able to help through the swim season because it was unfortunately cancelled.
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This was my first time ever using a blog format. I have created a website, but I

had never been exposed to or learned anything about a blog. The first step to

fixing that was to do some research on the blog and set up a timeline on when I

would post videos, when I would edit them, etc. (REF TO PREVIOUS

TIMELINE). As explained beforehand, I failed the timely manner situation (REF

TO CURRENT TIMELINE),but was able to learn more about blogs and how they

typically are run (REF TO RESOURCE CONSULTANT PAGE).

I have always struggled with the skill of writing (REF TO ROUGH DRAFTS) so

when this project idea came up, my immediate response was that I wanted to use

it as a guide to help with improving my writing skills. With the help of my

teachers (REF TO CORRECTIONS BY TEACHERS), quality control partners

(REF TO QUALITY CONTROL PARTNER HELP), and my friends giving me

advice, my writing was able to gradually become better than it originally was.

Being able to learn how important time managing is, implement not one but multiple

teaching styles, expand my knowledge on video editing, learn how to layout scripts and write

text entries, figuring out how to manage and design a blog, and being able to improve on my

writing skills were able to expand my knowledge on new aspect in the world and helped open up

new opportunities for the future along with proving to myself that anything I sent my mind to I

could potentially complete it. At first, I heavily disliked the idea of doing this project, but know

that it is complete I'm glad that I have come out with more information than walking into it. This

project allowed me to learn key skills that I may need in the future for a career or hobby of my

liking. Through creating Under Pressure Swim Blog and Under Pressure Recovery Blog, the

challenges I faced, and that satisfaction of each piece completed was enough to make me enjoy it
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in the end. I was able to change my ideas and way of thinking rapidly, which was easier to take

criticism and comments to change some aspects, along with becoming better in said skills.

Through is project, I was able to become more confident in my skills, along with somehow

getting things done in a short amount of time. I am extremely proud of myself and the way I was

able to change my mindset drastically throughout this project along with the growth and new

information I have received.