Final Reflection

WOW! I feel like I need to sit in silence now that I have reached the end of a very long project. I can’t lie, I have been waiting for this day to come. It has been a roller coaster of motivation and procrastination. There were days when I was excited to write a blog, film, and edit and days where I really didn’t feel like it. Yet, I made it through. 

I am so glad I did this with my partner! Whenever I felt stuck, I was always able to communicate it with her and find a solution. We’ve been working on projects together all year, so this was a nice way to wrap things up. I have lots of gratitude for my sister Macie who filmed our behind-the-scenes clips and showed up for my CCRs and my friend Pear who took time out of her day to be in one of my CCRs. 

My favorite part of this process was writing the blogs. I really enjoyed the genre research blogs because you learn so much about a genre that you did not know existed. I liked the production blogs too because I got to recall all the silly moments from the filming day. There were definitely some low points! The anticipation for filming day was always annoying because filming and editing always looked like so much work from a zoomed out point of view, until I actually dug in and realized it is not as difficult as I imagined since I prepped in advance. I am glad I got to film with friends because it made the production process way more enjoyable. 

I have many takeaways from this portfolio project. The biggest one is to just dig in. Towards the end of this project I just wanted to procrastinate everything because I had a very “ugh this again” mindset. But after beginning the activity, whether it was blogging or editing, I realized that I could have saved myself so much stress if I just got to work instead of thinking about how much work that has to be done. Also, I learned that once you actually do it, editing and filming really aren’t that bad. Now I see the value in getting straight to work, rather than procrastinating. At the end of the day, it is all of the silly moments from filming and editing that I will look back on.

To wrap up this post, here is my favorite moment from this entire project! It is a blooper of me and Pear filming the CCR for Questions 1 and 2.