We´re Baaaaaaack!

 

This is my reflective essay. It´s about my poster for the Trinity Men´s Soccer Team game against Colorado College. It was a really fun project and I enjoyed doing it. I had a lot of ideas for what to do for my poster. But at the end I wanted to a poster for the Trinity Men´s Soccer Team since I am on the team and there hadn´t been a poster from us in a very long time.

We have a game against Colorado College on March 12 next. This is the first game that we have in over a year and we wanted to have extra hype around the game. The game will be at the Paul McGinlay Soccer Field our home stadium.

Usually the Friday games are the most attended games. But since we are dealing with a global pandemic no audience is allowed at the field. However people will be able to see the game. It will be live streamed through a link that is provided on the poster.

The process behind the project was really fun and it also had me think creatively and outside the box to make the poster the best as it could be. I tried a lot of things with the poster. Used many pictures, words, and was trying to make it very cool and nice. My first draft had more pictures, words, and was trying to make it very cool and nice. My first draft had more pictures then the finished done and way more words than my final one. I realised that it takes a lot of work and creativity to make a good product come alive like a poster. It has to be worked on for a good amount of time like anything else that is going to be successful.

As a consumer you expect the best from everything and you only accept the best. As a consumer you are always deciding what, where, and from who to buy. If one product looks better than another product you´ll buy the product that looks better to you. So as a consumer looking at a poster you will always appreciate something about the poster and there will always be something that you don´t like. What the consumer usually doesn´t think about as much is the amount of work that the produce of the product in this case a produce of a poster has put in to the poster.

Being a producer of a media content I would argue is more work and takes more creativity than being a consumer. Your goal as the producer when creating a media content like a poster is to get the consumers attention. This takes amount of time and creativity and a lot of work to create a media content that will reach that goal. As a consumer you take what you like best and you look at things that you like. So these are two different approaches when it comes to media content.

I learned a lot from doing this project. I have learned that the media content that I like is because of something. The tv-shows, movies, and podcasts that I watch and listen to are because I think they are so fun. But why I think they are fun is because of how well they are made. It is the work that is behind the movie, tw-show, and the podcast that makes me like it.

Now I have been both a consumer and a producer of a media content. I enjoy both being the consumer and the producer like in this poster assignment. However do I think you learn more by being the producer.