Lessons Learned

The Highs and Lows

Welcome back, everyone! My group and I have concluded the creation of our movie opener, finalizing all components of the film earlier today. So, I believe this is a good time to conclude the day with some lessons I learned throughout the process of creating this film:

Time Management:

In all honesty, this was the hardest, but most important lesson I had to learn through the process. Almost every component of this class relies on time management. If done properly, it can be so simple to produce a quality project and track your progress via blog posts. Unfortunately, I must admit that I did start off pretty well in terms of due dates and times, but I began to slow down around the New Year because it became time to actually begin planning and recording our final projects. Although I really wanted to get everything done as early as possible, unforeseeable circumstances mixed with my, and my group's procrastination, made it seemingly difficult to manage everything in a timely fashion.

Group Work

In this assignment, I learned the different ways in which group work can be either efficient and beneficial or distracting and harmful. On a high note, working as a group motivated me to want to work on this project, even when I felt lazy or had a tight schedule. This is because anything can be fun when done with friends. Also, group work is important to split up responsibilities of tasks into smaller, easily digestible chunks. However, if not done properly, group work has its downsides. At times, my group and I would get distracted and veer off task. While this was limited when working remotely together, it really hit us on shooting days. For example, while recording scenes in the gym, we would often go off-task and start challenging one another to short boxing duels. This is just one example of a distractor, and I believe we would have been more successful had we found a way to maintain our attention to the project.

There are many more lessons I learned, but I feel these two were the most significant ones that will surely be in my mind next time I work on a project of this caliber. Anyways, stay tuned for my final project release! I will post one more blog similar to this one tomorrow, before the BIG REVEAL...