Journey into Filipino Delicacies
By: Melissa Elizarde
Tags: Passion Project, Baking, Videos, Food, Filipino

Final Assessment

Growing up in the early 2000s, I have seen and experienced the creation and implementation of different technology and what not. One of the most groundbreaking things that was introduced to me as a child was the video site Youtube. I remember that I used to watch whatever was uploaded on the website at the time. A few years after I was introduced to Youtube, I found a small handful baking channels. I felt like a door was opened up to me. Since I was a toddler, I had a passion for baking and seeing these videos was monumental to me. These baking videos were different from the shows I saw on the TV because I had easier access to these videos than to the scheduled shows on certain days of the week. Since I was young, I had always wanted to do a baking video of my own. So when I was given an assignment to do whatever project I wanted to do, immediately I thought of creating a baking tutorial. To begin, I needed to think of something to create. I didn’t want to do something popular like cupcakes or cookies. I wanted mine to stand out against the majority of baking videos on Youtube. Therefore I chose cassava cake, a popular dessert in the Philippines. I decided to make this dessert is because it is something that my culture enjoys. I took advantage of this assignment by incorporating my culture in it as well. After I found a recipe, I created a script and shot list for my video. I then began to film and edit once everything else was completed. It is through this project that I see that personal motivation and administrative motivation affects the person in different ways.

Personal motivation is easier to carry out since it was created by the person who wanted to do the action. Towards the beginning of the project, I was excited about having to create my own baking video. I thought it would be a bit easier for me since I bake and edit vlogs on a regular basis. With this, planning my actions felt like a breeze. The easiest part of the project was the planning even though it was the most time consuming. I was excited and eager to carry out one of my childhood dreams. My motivation was former desires that I had never gotten around to fulfilling until now. To be given the power to do something I had always wanted to do was exciting. I was able to incorporate all the different things that I was inspired by as a child into a school project. This was all the dialogue and camera angles of the actual process of the desert. Through this process, I was able to see that if someone is truly motivated to do something, they’ll do it with no hesitation. This personal motivation can be found in everyone if we were to put our minds to it. And it is also through this process that I was able to see that these motivations can change at any point during time.

On the contrary, administrative motivation can either actually encourage you to do your work, or leave you in an unpassionate slump. During the filming of my video, I became frustrated since filming a baking tutorial was not what I had expected it. It was difficult filming the baking in action and getting the lighting correct. However, I did finish the filming process and started to move on to editing it. It was at this part in project where I began to lose speed. Suddenly, I was not excited about the project and I lost motivation. The only thing that really pushed me to finish my video was the fact that I was being graded on this project. I believe that I was discouraged by filming my process. I usually have a lot of fun baking on my own, but I believe that stress of the fact that my peers were going to see this video got to me. What would they think of the way I did these things? It was difficult for me to edit this video because I wanted to give my best work. Instead, I lost track. I was not doing this project for me, but for the grade. Unlike the planning process, I was having a tough time trying to perfect the final pieces of my project, and only finished them to finish them. Even though I chose this for my passion project, I lost motivation and the video became something I was not passionate about.

Your passions and motivation may change over a long period of time or in an instant. When it comes to this transition, it easy to know when you are not feeling the task at hand anymore. Knowing that you are not passionate about something can be a good thing. It opens up many doors for exploration outside your comfort zone and allows you to find the things you are truly interested in.