Looking back

 My final project blog!

When we started the project, I was enthusiastic about working as a team, I usually love doing teamwork, I find collaboration great for brainstorming and coming up with ideas. Our group had to make a documentary on “Online shaming and Cancel culture”. We started off with four members, but it quickly became evident that one member wasn’t really pushed about participating, we tried lots of times to engage with that girl and get her involved even down to the last week, but she wasn’t interested. So, we were down to a team of three, I oversaw research and the script, I separated the script into three parts so myself, Kelly, and Kate could all share the screen. Now you would think that would be easy, wouldn’t you? Well, you try recording with a puppy and children in the house, by the time I was able to get a decent video recorded it was only two days before we had to submit the video. I had made Kelly aware of my recording issues so we decided that Kelly would make a video with herself talking because Kate also had recording issues as the dreaded Covid had entered her household and Kate also only managed to send her video to Kelly two days before submitting. Kelly managed to get both Kate and I into the final documentary and she took on the main bulk of the editing. I did offer to help edit but Kelly was happy to finish it on her own. Kelly uploaded our documentary to YouTube and sent the URL to me and Kate on our WhatsApp group.

I am proud of our first documentary. I feel we educated the audience about “Online shaming and Cancel culture” by the script and the images we documented. We have some things we can improve on, and we know it could have been better, it is how we imagined it to flow but the editing could have been more balanced. While I was initially looking forward to the group project, I ended up feeling a lot of pressure to do well for my fellow group members and at times I didn’t enjoy doing the project, we had a lot of disruption to our timekeeping. Kate, Sophia, and I were all sick at different times, so it threw our schedule off and it always felt like we were struggling to catch up with this project.

I have also learned that I need to be more involved in the editing process and I have a lot to learn in that area.