| First of all I'd just like to say, Cristina and Ibrahim, |
| that I really enjoyed watching your video about student life last week, |
| and I could see that the rest of the group did too. |
| You did really well, and I hope that you got a lot out of it. |
| I'd like to use this tutorial as a feedback session, |
| where you reflect on the experience of doing the project. |
| So Cristina, I was wondering, what did you enjoy most about making the video? |
| I liked using the camera. |
| Is it the first time you've operated one like that? |
| Yes, it is. |
| Well the results were very good! |
| Anything else? |
| I also enjoyed visiting one of the British students we filmed. |
| I'd never been inside a British home before. |
| Okay Cristina, thanks. |
| What about you, Ibrahim? |
| What did you enjoy? |
| Well, for me it was a very good chance to get to know students who are on other courses, |
| because everyone in our group is studying English, and... |
| we don't usually have much to do with the rest of the college. |
| Yes, good. |
| Do you think you'll maintain the contact now? |
| I hope so. |
| I've invited three of them to have dinner with me next week. |
| Great! |
| If you haven't decided what to make yet, I can tell you they'll love trying Arab dishes. |
| And of course, it's good for your English too. |
| Cristina, what did you find? |
| What was the most useful aspect of the project from the point of view of the English practice? |
| I think, when we were being shown how to edit the film, |
| we had to follow the instructions. |
| And that was very good practice for me. |
| And I also learned some technical words that I hadn't heard before. |
| What about you Ibrahim? |
| What was the most useful for your English? |
| It was listening to the British students, |
| because they don't speak as slowly as most of the tutors on our course. |
| I think they speak at natural speed, |
| so it forces me to get used to it. |
| And they use a lot of slang. |
| So you learned some new words which will be useful? |
| Yes. |
| Good. |
| I'm glad it helped. |
| Well, we've talked a little bit about enjoyment, and about language practice. |
| Were there any other benefits? |
| What else did you feel you'd learnt from the project? |
| Was it useful in other ways? |
| Yes, well firstly, I learned how to use a video camera. |
| And also, I think I really learned a lot about working together with other people. |
| I've never done anything with a group before, |
| and we had to find ways of cooperating, |
| erm, and compromising, |
| and sometimes persuading people, when they don't agree with you. |
| Yes, that is a very useful experience, I know. |
| What about you, Ibrahim? |
| Well, I think I learnt a lot about how important editing is. |
| When you're filming, you think that everything's going to be interesting, |
| but in fact we cut around half of it in the end, |
| and then it was much better. |
| Good. |
| Well, one last thing I'd like to ask. |
| What mistakes do you think you, as a group that is, made? |
| I mean, to put it another way, if you had to do it all over again, |
| is there anything you'd do differently? |
| We didn't plan very well. |
| For example, we didn't decide on dates when we'd complete each separate step of the project, |
| and we should have agreed about that in the beginning, |
| because we were always late with everything! |
| Right. |
| Anything else? |
| I think we should have tried to experiment more with the camera. |
| I mean with angles, and the focus and that kind of thing. |
| So you should have been more ambitious? |
| Do you agree, Ibrahim? |
| Not really. |
| In fact, I think we were too ambitious. |
| We were inexperienced, and we didn't have a lot of time, |
| and we tried to do too much, to make a long film. |
| Next time I would make a shorter one and try to get the quality better. |
| Well, that's very interesting. |
| Next semester we will be doing another video project - with a different content, of course - |
| but you'll have an opportunity to put into practice what you've learnt this time. |
| Do you have any ideas about... |