Group Blog

     For my first project, I have decided to do it as a group with two of my friends: Madelyn C. and Kennedy N. We all collectively agreed to work together and shared our contact information to keep in touch after school. I chose to work with them because having already worked with Madelyn before, I can determine that she will keep up with the project. This is my first time working with Kennedy, so I will use this project as an experiment to see how well we all can work together. We all also tend to procrastinate from time to time, so this will help us keep each other in check or if we need any help understanding anything. Furthermore, this will be our first major project, and we are all beginners in film-making, so we're looking forward to the group learning experience. 

    After some discussion, I was able to learn that Kennedy excels at art. She was able to provide us with a drawing she made, and Madelyn and I both thought it looked very decent. I am also a fairly decent artist, so Kennedy and I will most likely do the storyboard while all three of us work on everything else. I considered being the cameraman and editor since I have had some sort of experience in the past. However, we may all need to work together on the editing so we get more perspectives on how it should be.

    For our product, we decided on ballpoint pens which will be provided by Kennedy. As for acting, all three of us will take that role since we discussed how we may only need to record our hands for this instead of our faces all being in it. In case we decide to show faces, Madelyn and Kennedy have decided that they want to be actors. For this to work, we will need to alternate between camerapeople, but we will use the same phone for filming to avoid differences in scene quality. 

    Both Kennedy and Madelyn seem like good partners to work with, so I have high hopes for the results of this project. Depending on the actual task, we may alter the workload for each person to make it more manageable as this is our first project, but after having a thorough discussion when we meet up, this will hopefully turn out well. Meeting up won't be difficult since this will be filmed on campus, so everything else is set for us to start planning and discussing. For clothing, we usually don't wear any school-related items besides our IDs so that area is covered. Overall, this seems like a promising group that will be efficient in completing this project. 




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