This was the scariest day for me in a long time! I know I said in my previous evaluation that no matter what happened, I (as I'm sure would be the rest of my group) would be proud of everything we learnt and ultimately accomplished in the end. However at the end of the day I only want the best for the film. I was restless the few days before, as everything became finalised to what we were going to present to everyone. Sitting watching the other groups present, I couldn't stop fidgeting and moving and I got several messages from friends in the class asking was I okay / nervous! I was looking at my group mates and everyone looked just as nervous as each other, so I sent a few messages being like 'We can do this guys!' to try and lift the atmosphere, despite being a bit uncertain myself. Watching the film I was holding on to Kat the entire time like 'AAAHHH!' It's meant so much to me for so long now that it's a daunting, but exciting process to show everyone the final result. I guess this is what it feels like professionally though! Even though I've cared a lot and tried my best on all my other projects, this has been the one that's threw me into a big learning curve and developed me the most, so I think I've been most anxious about showing it.

For the presentation, we wanted to talk about so much, as it's hard expressing the past semester's work into a powerpoint to show the hard work we've put in. It was nice to see after presenting, fellow classmates acknowledging our effort and complimenting us, and it really makes me appreciate our family atmosphere.

I also really appreciated the feedback from the tutors, and I think we were all expecting the worst, such as their reaction to our decision to remove the bubbles etc. However I did enjoy seeing their reactions to this and whether they thought it still worked or not. I think as a group we acknowledged our weaknesses pretty well, because we want to learn and grow from them instead of try and blame problems for getting in the way. Yes we had problems and yes they caused us setbacks, but I would never want those to prevent me / us from making the best film we could do anyways. I want to be able to say "Okay we had these problems this time, what can we do to prevent this in future?" kind of thing and get on with the work to the best of my ability.

I think one of things I'm proudest about is putting myself into new roles and situations. As a result I can now use After Effects to a decent standard in order to mask moving image, as well as other tasks. I think this is very helpful for next year, as it means I am able to do more of a variety of work with this new skill base. I hope making the effort to learn stuff like this in a short period of time shows my dedication to the film to some extent and how far I wanted to take myself in the making of it.

As said many a time previously, I am very proud of all of us for getting this far and I can only hope the others feel the same. Laura and I were discussing how much we've grown from the film and it's so exciting to be able to go through that process with your peers, and see how you develop individually and as a group. I feel like we're a lot wiser for future projects, but I know there's a long way still to go. I think as a filmmaker. or general artist, you're always constantly evolving and this project has reinforced this to me.

It's hard to thing that the majority of it is over now! It seems like a long time of work, but one that's gone pretty quickly at the same time. There were a lot of tough times at certain points but looking back on them I can say I did enjoy the challenge and it only motivated me more.