This project was challenging, but ultimately fun and rewarding, and I am proud of how my group’s project turned out. The initial brainstorming was a little challenging, because we had a hard time getting all of the ingredients for our video to fit together, and we had to go back and forth several times with faculty to get to a place where our idea could be approved. I’m glad that we were able to get to that place though and that the final product felt like it had something to say, and wasn’t just combining the different elements for the sake of finishing the project. It was also interesting to learn more about the process of filming and editing a short video, something that I am not very familiar with. While I’m grateful for the opportunity to experience more of this process, I did also feel that it put quite a bit of pressure on our Visual Media student. As a design student, I knew that my skills wouldn’t be as valuable in this project beyond brainstorming and acting/behind the scenes, but I also didn’t want to make anyone sacrifice the quality of the final product just so I could help out more in the filming and editing process.
This was a fun process, and it was cool to get to work with people who I haven’t before. It was especially fun to film the final video, and I had a good time throwing lots of pancakes on our shoot day. I was also really impressed by the creativity and quality of everyone’s work. It was a lot of work to put all the videos together, but it was very rewarding to get to see everyone’s hard work in the end.