Group Meeting

Today in class, we held a group meeting between members of different groups to exchange feedback. I was very excited for this day as I wanted to get a lot of constructive criticism to make my project as good as I can. Although I had a lingering thought in the back of my mind that my idea might not be as clear to others as it is to me, so I came into this meeting hoping for some constructive criticism.

The meeting was held, where everyone had time to explain their project one at a time and then receive feedback from the group, and the member speaking would also share their blog posts to show their research. I went last during the meeting, which I think was good, as listening to other projects first was helpful because it gave me a better understanding of how different people are approaching the same assignment and made it easier for me to articulate my ideas to my group members as straightforwardly as possible.

When it was my turn, I explained my project idea, the genre, and what I wanted to establish in the opening. At first, I tried not to overexplain so I could see what people first thought of, but I realized my original idea was very broad , and my group members helped me realize this.

My original idea was to make a serious action film opening where two characters would do a sort of house raid to catch this high-profile criminal, but I was also open to the idea of the house raid actually just being a sort of practice raid for training if that makes sense. However, the other group members brought up great points and made me realize that I would need good actors, props, and a certain level of camera knowledge/skills to make this film opening good, which my group and I do not have. So instead, the idea of doing a comedy-action opening instead was suggested, where the two characters doing the raid are these two doofuses who are hilariously bad at their job, which would make the film way more lenient when it came to the whole aspect of seriousness, which also meant it required less camera knowledge/skill than the other film idea. Aswell, I feel like this idea is more fun, which would make me want to work on this project more, which I feel would end up in me wanting to make sure every aspect of the film is perfect.

After we talked about my project ideas, we started to circle back on the other members' projects again. This time, however, we started giving raw feedback and advice/suggestions on other's film ideas. I personally had a lot of ideas to share, and honestly, this part of the meeting was fun as I always love giving feedback. Some of the project ideas the other group members felt incomplete in certain areas, so I elaborated on parts I thought they were lacking on so I could hopefully give thema view of what I envisioned their project to be like and how I thought they could improve it.

Overall, the meeting was really helpful. It gave me a better idea of what’s working, what needs improvement, and guided me in the direction of a comedy-action style film. And of course, we had to take a group photo for the memories