And so we have officially made it! We are at the finish line now. This has been quite the interesting journey for both me and everyone involved in the development of this project. Here’s a final, summarized reflection on absolutely everything me and my partner did throughout the eight weeks we were doing this project for:
Starting at the beginning, I was kind of expecting that I was going to work with my partner mostly because we did quite a few projects in the past together and we each had pretty good times doing them at the same time together. This time was no different, although we did have our disagreements every now and then relating to the project but we were able to compromise in the end. For example, during the editing stage of development, we each made different iterations of the film (we edited the film on our own each of us) and then we showed them to each other. From there, the changes that me and my partner made were combined through compromise and that ended up leading to the final project being made as a whole as a result.
The planning stage of the project was pretty abstract in my opinion mostly because of the fact that we had basically nothing planned or anything in mind whatsoever as to what we wanted to do with the project. Originally, I proposed that we should do either a psychological thriller or a coming of age film, but after a small delay in deciding, we ended up going with an action genre that my partner decided that we should do. The crime part of the action film wasn’t even considered fully until we were deep into planning as what we came up with naturally resonated with crime so the crime part of our film came later and honestly, I am glad that we did that kind of subgenre because without it, I believe our action genre alone would not fully represent what we had planned, and it wasn’t like we were going to fully change our already established plan which would’ve took too much time to do and would’ve put us in a great deal of stress at the same time.
From this project, I had learned everything from techniques, to representation and many more media studies related material. Even before I started this project, I had a basic understanding of the concepts and their use cases but during the progress of this project with some of my partner’s advice and research done by me at the same time, I feel like I have developed a more clear understanding of certain techniques and representations. This will be very useful for when it comes time to take the Media Text and Media Context Essays in May of this year (for my school).
Overall, this has been an amazing yet challenging journey and looking back on everything that I did, I would’ve tried to push myself harder than I pushed myself during this project as I had issues during these eight weeks with intuition and I felt like I was doing a lot of stuff last minute which was not only very bad school and grades wise, but also very bad in real life outside of school.
Thank you to everyone involved in my project including my partner (obviously!), his friend who filmed a scene with him in our opening (he is listed in the credits of the scene), and my partner’s dad (he helped film most of the opening when we couldn’t, credits are also listed on opening). If any of you see this post, just know that without you, we would’ve never been able to do what we did specifically.
Final projects coming soon!
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