Through the collaboration project, we learned the importance of consideration and decisiveness. Working with randomly selected team members and a given topic, we experienced cooperation with people from different fields. In this process, we learned how to reconcile our opinions and work towards a common goal.
Our team consisted of two graphic design students and one visual media student. To start the assignment, we spent time combining words written on three sticky notes to create a story. Based on our individual experiences and thoughts, we imagined scenarios and shared opinions on how we could use them as elements for our video and what message we wanted to convey.
During this process, our team members responded openly to each other’s opinions, enriching the story. Once the story was crafted, we sought approval from our professor through a consultation. After approval, things progressed quickly. Ty summarized the entire process in a document, outlining the topic of the assignment before detailing the plan. David and I shared ideas for location scouting and props needed for filming, marking up specific images for the video.
David, who was particularly interested in storytelling, fleshed out our confirmed story into a storyboard. Meanwhile, I focused intensively on creating illustrations for the props used in filming. Conveniently, our video backdrop was a café, and since we had previously worked on a café brochure project, we were able to redesign existing images to fit our video, saving time.
The location we used for filming was a rented space with a designated time frame, so we had to finish shooting within a limited time. As soon as Ty and I arrived at the shooting location with the props we had prepared, we set up the shooting studio. David installed the camera according to the shooting plan and made multiple attempts to capture us from various angles.
One challenging situation during the shoot was discovering that the audio wasn’t properly recorded in several scenes when we had almost finished shooting according to the scenario. Upon this discovery, we immediately proceeded to reshoot the scenes where the audio was not captured correctly. Ultimately, we were able to complete the filming of our prepared scenario within the rented time frame.
Even after the filming was completed, we worked together to tidy up the shooting location and continued to communicate while sharing the next steps. Although we couldn’t share much about what we learned during the filming on the day of the presentation due to time constraints, we were able to create a satisfying project outcome—a video that brought smiles to people’s faces as we intended.