When I was doing my BETEC in creative media, my weakest subject was how
to utilise the technological side of production. Since I am very much a visual
learner, I had convinced myself that perhaps recording my audio tech classes
this year would help me greatly as I could always review it later to take more
detailed notes, as a reminder, or to check back on the class in-case I had
missed something possibly crucial.
Doing this had actually worked however there were times when I would be
careless enough to forget to bring my recording device. Luckily my sheer
enthusiasm for improving myself in audio tech had influenced another student to
follow suit:
Yes people that is me and I do sing in the shower (but only to count
the minutes I have to leave my shampoo and conditioner on before I rinse). Being
in the recording studio next door I would have missed the technological ‘how-to’
in this class but this became one of the instances where recording the session proved
extremely helpful and I was able to take notes on applying reverberation
effects and controlling gain levels afterwards.
Unfortunately as mentioned before I do have a habit of forgetting to
even bring my recording device, so I’m unsure whether or not I could keep up
the habit of recording all my audio tech classes, I am not very good at taking
written notes quickly from verbal sources, so perhaps as a sort of contingency
I should try to improve my listening and writing speed skills so I could catch
up with the tutor better. According to my IELTS scoring though, from the second
time I took the test, my listening had gone up from 7.0 to 7.5 out of I think 9
or 8 which is nevertheless a good development, even if only slightly.
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