CCR #3

Hi guyss, in this post I’ll be answering this CCR question: how did my production skills develop throughout the project? 

Before this class I had some experience in “production” whether that was theater or filming. I was a director of Frozen jr last year and this year I’m directing Mean Girls. These have both helped me find my voice when it comes to blocking, visualizing, and writing. I also was in a filming class along with Media, so I was actually doing hands on stuff in that class while learning about technique in this class. But this project required all the skills I had developed from those experiences to make it. I had already felt confident in my editing skills but was still iffy with my filming. Shots, angles, movement. But because I had so much time to plan just these two minutes of filming I got to really think about how I wanted to film it. As I went along I started learning how to be more intentional with what kind of shots I was going to incorporate. Unlike with my other class I just did whatever shots I thought looked cool, but with the project I actually had purpose behind every decision. 

I also improved my collaboration skills. Working with my partner Andre proved to be difficult sometimes as we had creative differences. But I really appreciate the ability to collaborate with her that this project gave me. I usually feel like I take a lot of control in group projects and so does Andre, so partnering up with her I already knew we were going to disagree. But anytime we did, we just decided that we could try both ideas or we would just explain why the other didn't sound reasonable.