Workshop 01 - Figuring out traffic lights

For this weeks workshop we were given the task of explaining how traffic lights work. As I have been driving for nearly two years I thought this would be a simple task, but I was wrong. I quickly figured out that understanding something in theory and being able to explain something in plain English was much more difficult for me.

(https://www.pinterest.co.uk/pin/353884483197062887/?lp=true) As I began to try and explain the theory to the person next to me I quickly understood that there's a lot more thought behind the traffic light system then I initially thought, it is not just as simple and green means go and red means stop. From this what seemed to be very simple task, made me understand that what seem to simple theories and everyday tasks can in fact be quite difficult to put into words and explain to another person. It has made me realise that maybe my skills aren't quite up to scratch. So, I feel that this weekly blog may really work to my advantage as it is making me read and write more then I usually would throughout my Creative Digital Media course as is it mainly practical. So, my hopes are that by the end of this module I will have improved my skills. After completing this task, I think I will be analysing the sequence of traffic lights when I'm sitting in floods of traffic waiting for the lights to change!! I am glad that I was given this task, I feel like I would have never considered writing a blog as I just felt it wasn't for me, but now I really think it could work to my advantage and I will expand on important skills form this. I look forward to more tasks and workshops I am given and keeping up with my weekly vlog!