Group work: positives and negatives

Working in a group has taught us many things about cooperation, and teamwork to get our project done. However, there have been positives and negatives about working in a team.

Something positive is that with four of us being in the group, it decreased the workload that all of us had to have to take on. This made the whole process of working over these three months a lot easier on all of us and less stressful. Also, since we allocated each other roles in our strongest points, the work that all of us had to do was more enjoyable.

A negative in working in a team is finding time for all of us to work together. Since we all have different schedules, we found it hard to all be together. However, since some of us didn’t have to be present at all times, most of the things were filmed or edited in twos. Everyone had an equal amount of responsibilities, and so we all got to work together regularly.

Another negative may be disagreements with what to change. Everyone in our group has very strong creative idea, so therefore sometime there were some conflicts in what should be changed and what would look good. However, having all these ideas floating around was a positive because we never ran short of ways to change it, therefore development was always frequent and rather quick to do.

Shooting 04

After receiving feedback, it was important that we re-shot the footage to make more sense. There were important scenes that had to be re-filmed:

- The corridor scene

- All drinks scenes (pouring, placing glasses...)

Leading up to the bedroom also had to be re-done due to George wearing a different suit. This shoot was successful, quick and easy, and we was able to come back and edit slightly.

Editing session

After our shoot with our new actor, I edited in all of the credits that we would need. I focused on text placement, and what would look best within the frame and composition.

Also, music was edited in with the help of Kelly, with the pace being slowed down and faster according to what is needed, to match the pace.

Shooting 03

After changing our idea from being in a bar to the home, we asked another boy to play our man. We re-shot most of the scenes and turned it into a sequence where he is lead upstairs, and comes to his eventual death.

Shooting went well, and it was all successful. We shot the whole sequence within two hours with room to change some our ideas originally. Most of the shots we shot were in focus and very little had to be changed.