REFLECTION FOR THE AUDIO MOCK INTERVIEW

 An epic failure, that's what I would call it. I was kind of disappointed in myself, because I believed in my fluency even when asked to answer a surprise question. But I was busy to think of what to say and so, I made many grammatical mistakes and stuttered a lot, which I don't usually do.

 

 I couldn't help but thinking, "What if it was a real interview?" And it made me sigh. Definitely it was the moment that I finally came to see the reality that was veiled out of my ego and groundless confidence. 

 But on second thought, "Would I have done much better than this if I was to answer in Korean?" Hmm... possibly just a little bit better. Then what is the problem? - Background knowledge about myself. Somehow I came to a conclusion that I'll have to memorize background knowledge about myself, so that I will have no difficulty when I think of what to say. 

SHELF PROJECT : THE SECOND

One question after watching "Tell me about yourself video"

 I perfectly understood what it meant to say - When asked to talk about myself, it should be relevant to what the interviewer wants to know, which is EES. There's one thing I can't really understand though.

 When you're in an interview, mostly you present your resume to the interviewer. And why do you have to talk about something that's already in the resume and why does the interviewer expect to hear the same thing?

 In my opinion, it should rather be including what characteristics you have and what your personality is like, as the interviewer doesn't have any background knowledge about you except the information in your resume.

REFLECTION FOR THE MOCK INTERVIEW

 As I was checking out my mock interview video, I couldn't help but embarrass myself, as there was much more time that I didn't make the eye contact with the interviewer than I did. I looked insecure and stiff as if I've done something wrong.

 What bothered me the most was the unhappy expression as I was struggling to figure out what to say in my mind. But eventually, I couldn't say what I ought to say well enough either.

 In this case, the tension worked in the negative way which led to the loss of my confidence. It's all because I wasn't really prepared for the interview and I didn't have enough background knowledge about myself.

 And also, basically there are still so many words that are unknown to me. In the middle of the video, I paused and hesitated for a while to think of the right word to explain, but eventually I failed to figure it out and say in a different way that I didn't mean to.

 Generally, I'm not satisfied with the outcome, but now I know what the causes were, all I have to do is to accept the inconvenience truths about me and sort them out one by one.

 

REFLECTION FOR THE FIRST SHELF & IDEA FOR THE SECOND

[REFLECTION FOR THE FIRST SHELF]

Though the first attempt turned out to be a success for us, as many people liked it, there were some problems.

1. English conversations were not that much.

2. Some scenes had to be Korean.

3. It focused mainly on "fun", so there weren't lucid English learning points.

4. Many people wouldn't have understood dialogues in some scenes out of too noisy background music & sound effects, so they would have heavily relied on subtitles.


[IDEA FOR THE SECOND]

Theme: News.

Subject: Outsider problems on Campus.

Overall introduction:
 It's gonna be a realistic "FRAUD NEWS" in which a reporter interviews some outsiders(not real!) on campus. It's also gonna be a funny video but there will be more English dialogues and more practical idioms & phrasal verbs which can be strong English learning points unlike the previous one.

[SHELF PROJECT] RETURNERS : AGE OF FRESHMEN

MY IDEA FOR SHELF PROJECT

Theme (the form of this project) : movie trailer.

Subject: old students' return.

Length: approximately 5 mins

Overall introduction:
This is gonna be a funny video mixed up with some movie parodies and my own ideas.
In Korea, returning students are not really welcome to freshmen (not always though) for some reasons(maybe they think they are too old-fashioned or something), so I thought it might be a good idea to draw the way we returning students survive in university satirically.