The magic School Bus!
Reflection
Here's a quick link to the (unfinished) film: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lBl0a_32J1I
The purpose of this project was to inform an audience about DNA, mitosis and meiosis, and how genetics work on a basic level. The medium to be used was a video. I think by writing the script for said video I helped to put the right content into what would be shown. Sadly, because the video was never finished, the point didn’t come across as easily as it could have. With the addition of effects, and the completion of the video, I’m confident that we would have conveyed our information very well.
Personally, I think I did a decent job of writing the script. I wrote a fairly large fraction of it, and helped to make sure that the needed content was in the film. As the script was the backbone for the film, I was an essential part of the process of making the movie. The class as a whole worked very well together too. On the whole, we collaborated well, and were making quality work, although at a snail’s pace. My criticism is just that we weren’t working efficiently enough. We may have been able to finish the film had we planned better.
Personally, I think I could have collaborated better with people in the class, particularly storyboarders, as I gave them a quite hard time. I can say this as well for the filmers, as I didn’t give them any angles for shots in the script. As a whole class, we just needed to plan better. Filming started/ended late, and became rushed near the end. This lead to our small editing crew not being able to finish on time. We also could have coordinated ourselves so as to not have many technicians, and few editors. In the future, it would be better to simply ration what we needed in terms of jobs, and put an appropriate amount of people into each role. Collaboration was done fairly well however, and communication was fairly frequent. We knew what we wanted, we simply missed a point of communication regarding deadlines. Collaboration for myself personally looked like myself writing a chunk of the script, and getting as many people to read/critique it as possible. I wanted to make sure that everyone was content with the script before we started filming.
If this project were to be done again, it would be best to have a more fleshed-out schedule. Our filming was the weak point of our project, as it was incredibly long, and didn’t allow for editing time. Something as simple as a small planning meeting for the first day or two of the project would have helped tremendously. As for changing the whole of the project from a more authoritative perspective, I would quickly motion to designate specific numbers of people that each group needed. One of our huge problems was not having appropriate numbers of people on each team, such as editing. Editing essentially had two people to edit and add effects to huge amounts of film. This lead to our film being unfinished, when it could have easily been completed had we distributed ourselves better. I would keep everything else about the project the same, really. I always felt that I had a clear idea of what I had to do, and this helped me to be efficient and use my time well.
Here's a quick link to the (unfinished) film: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lBl0a_32J1I
The purpose of this project was to inform an audience about DNA, mitosis and meiosis, and how genetics work on a basic level. The medium to be used was a video. I think by writing the script for said video I helped to put the right content into what would be shown. Sadly, because the video was never finished, the point didn’t come across as easily as it could have. With the addition of effects, and the completion of the video, I’m confident that we would have conveyed our information very well.
Personally, I think I did a decent job of writing the script. I wrote a fairly large fraction of it, and helped to make sure that the needed content was in the film. As the script was the backbone for the film, I was an essential part of the process of making the movie. The class as a whole worked very well together too. On the whole, we collaborated well, and were making quality work, although at a snail’s pace. My criticism is just that we weren’t working efficiently enough. We may have been able to finish the film had we planned better.
Personally, I think I could have collaborated better with people in the class, particularly storyboarders, as I gave them a quite hard time. I can say this as well for the filmers, as I didn’t give them any angles for shots in the script. As a whole class, we just needed to plan better. Filming started/ended late, and became rushed near the end. This lead to our small editing crew not being able to finish on time. We also could have coordinated ourselves so as to not have many technicians, and few editors. In the future, it would be better to simply ration what we needed in terms of jobs, and put an appropriate amount of people into each role. Collaboration was done fairly well however, and communication was fairly frequent. We knew what we wanted, we simply missed a point of communication regarding deadlines. Collaboration for myself personally looked like myself writing a chunk of the script, and getting as many people to read/critique it as possible. I wanted to make sure that everyone was content with the script before we started filming.
If this project were to be done again, it would be best to have a more fleshed-out schedule. Our filming was the weak point of our project, as it was incredibly long, and didn’t allow for editing time. Something as simple as a small planning meeting for the first day or two of the project would have helped tremendously. As for changing the whole of the project from a more authoritative perspective, I would quickly motion to designate specific numbers of people that each group needed. One of our huge problems was not having appropriate numbers of people on each team, such as editing. Editing essentially had two people to edit and add effects to huge amounts of film. This lead to our film being unfinished, when it could have easily been completed had we distributed ourselves better. I would keep everything else about the project the same, really. I always felt that I had a clear idea of what I had to do, and this helped me to be efficient and use my time well.