Final Blog Reflection

4.Early in the year, I learned the importance of time-management and planned when creating a video. You can see that in my first film, the cyberbullying video, I clearly didn't do this, because our video as a whole wasn't even close to being finished. There was no time to add music, and our editing was a little sloppy. We had wasted a lot of time with the little things, instead of focusing on finishing the project. On my second project, (The Holiday Greetings Video) I learned how to manage my time a little better. You can see this throughout the whole video, because Cristabel's and my lines were practiced, and we had music in the whole video. Later in the year, I showed that I really had learned that concept well, since I showed this in other projects. One good example is from "The Beauty Project", which was my final project. This was done with Damaris and Cristabel. We finished our project earlier than most groups, and our video contained music, along with carefully planned scenes. We really talked about our ordering of the film and how much time it would take to film each part of the video. We even wrote out notes before-hand about what we wanted to present in our video. 5.A big concept I learned after making and watching videos were the ideas of dedication and working with other people. You may not be able to see this from my blog, but I put a lot of time and dedication to each of my projects. Sometimes I would come in on breaks of after school to help work on my project. Sometimes, when other people in my group would not really stay on task, or did not want to come in on their own time outside of class to help with the video, I had to step up to the plate. Sometimes I would have to work more than other people in my group in order to get the job done. And this is an example of dedication. People need that in film-making, if they really want to make their film good. My other important concept learned, working with other people, was a huge lesson learned in this class. Every day, we would work with other people. On most of our projects, we would work in groups, and it was important that I got along with all different types of personalites. With different people, I had to be willing do give my opinion, without being too dictating. I also had to suggest that each of the people do different tasks to I wouldn't be the one doing all the work. I had to learn to listen to other student's point of view, even when I didn't feel the same way. By doing all of these things, people are able to work together on a big film, and be productive in the end. 5.My expierences in this class have definitely helped me come out of my shell. As a naturally pretty shy person, I don't prefer being in front of the camera, or speaking in front of people. But this class helped me start to feel comfortable with those things. By being able to share my ideas with everyone else in the class, I've learned that speaking in front of people can be very productive, and allows me to express myself. Being in front of the camera in this class allows me to practice being professional and keeping eye contact like I'll have to in the adult world.