I had a really great time working on this video assignment. On the first day the three sticky notes that we ended up with said “Owen Wilson” “plastic bug” and “wolves hunt in packs.” At first we were all super stumped and had no idea what direction these prompts would take us in. After sitting at the table with my group we slowly came up with an idea just from talking and throwing different ideas and themes back and forth. We got really excited about the concept of a parody version of Survivor using plastic cockroaches I had at home. I had a lot of plastic bugs lying around my house (don’t ask) so I was really happy that we ended up with that sticky note and we weren’t required to buy any props or supplies for this project.

 After coming up with our concept we ran the idea by Marc and then began writing our treatment and storyboard. The storyboard came together very quickly because we used screenshots from a survivor commercial and just planned on copying most of the sequences. Our next step was building the sets and gathering props, which was a ton of fun. We kept commenting how the day just felt like an arts and crafts day because we were just gluing things together and having fun creating our sets. We began filming almost immediately after creating our sets. We wanted to finish filming as early as possible since we knew that editing was going to be the most time consuming part of this assignment. I had never used premiere pro before so this project was a great introduction to the program. It felt very intuitive compared to other editing programs I’ve used before. Since Diana was leaving for a wedding on Friday she created the slideshow for us which was awesome!

 I felt like our team did a good job dividing the work and using our different strengths and abilities to complete this project. Thank you so much Emily and Daina!