Process
The first thing we did was get put into groups from the drawing of a hat. I got put with a really colorful group so it took us a while to warm up to one another and figure everything out. It took us about two days to think and decide as a group what our topic wanted to be, everyone in my group presented great topics but we eventually settle on mine, my experience with theater. We then got to work on the questions, which took another few days because of us not being able to figure things out, again. Then a group member of mine got all the questions figured out so we set off to the location we had found a few days prior. It was in the theater hallway at school, in front of the two masks Thalia and Melpomene. But the camera didn't work that day and by the time a teammate could get back to our classroom, figure out the problem, and walk back time had run out so we had lost another day. This pattern of something going wrong continued on for the next few days until we changed locations and finally got everything filmed in one 48 minute class period, which is pretty impressive considering all that been going wrong for us. After we had filmed everything the next day we were set to edit, which brings a whole new load of problems. Since this was a school-related interview (My theater stuff) there was a lot of things that had to be shared among my groups like pictures, videos, and sound. I had to find pictures of me in elementary school, I also had recorded my theater rehearsal and used that as background music (The song is "Sit Down You're Rocking the Boat) and sometimes the clips wouldn't load on the software or the clips weren't found. At one point I had lost my entire project and had to restart twice, but I got everything finished on the last day that I could've turned it in.
Learned
I learned a lot with this project. I learned how to handle my patients better when the software doesn't work or when my group is having trouble working. I learned how to better operate the new cameras we are using this year for the exploring film class and I learned how to use Adobe Premier better, even though we've been using it for the past year and a half now. With Adobe I now know how to change the sound and how to make sure it is not going to be too loud or too quiet. I know how to add pictures and make sure they fill up the whole frame instead of being tiny little things in the middle of the frame. We now know how to use the clip on mics called the Lavalier, which is really fun to say. We were taught how to make the interview interesting which means adding B-Roll or extra footage and that we need to change up the camera angles. I also learned that if I start stressing out about not getting my project done on time than it will not turn out good. Like when all the bad stuff was happening before and after filming I was freaking out a bit, but after giving up some of my lunch periods and accidentally being late to my fifth-hour class I got both the original and re-edit done on time.
Differently
If I could probably change anything it would be how productive my team was and what camera we used. I would change the productivity levels because some days we weren't really focused and that slowed us down in being able to turn our project in on time with everyone else. The project wasn't late, it just wasn't on the day my teacher would've liked it to be on. I would also change the camera we checked out, after continuously checking out the same camera a few days in a row and falling behind, we could've checked out a different camera and maybe we would've finished way sooner. If I'm talking about editing I would probably change my voiceover, it isn;t the best one but I was really confused over that part. Another thing I would change is the way my group treated each other. I wish we all would've been a little nicer towards one another because once we realized we were on a time crunch we all kinda snapped at one another everyone once in a while. It wasn't bad, but it also didn't help that half the group wasn't working half the time so it was just me and another member who was doing all the work. But that's how group projects are, right?
Same
I wouldn't change my group members, even if something were difficult we solved everything and I am always learning how to better my team working skills through hard groups. It was fun to work on another project and I did like how my interview came out.
Experience
It was definitely an experience. All my stuff was malfunctioning and my group taught me leadership skills. I learned how to not become freaked out when something doesn't go exactly as planned and that groups and partners may not always be 100% compatible but that it's in your best interest to try and get along in order to help the rest of the group and get something finished. I learned how to create something of decent quality under a time limit and how to improve it given the ability to re-edit the project.
All in all, this was another great project from my favorite program and I am as always, excited for whats to come.
See ya next time,
SophietheFirst
P.S. It was my birthday the day we filmed this, that's why I got to say I was 16 years old. X)
Re-edit
Orignal
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