Group Meeting #2

Good morning Cambridgeee!! Today March 13 and the due date keeps getting closer and closer. Scary. Today we will be taking a break from all the CCR and editing blogs. We just had our 2nd group meeting! In this meeting we were able to share how were doing, ask for others oinion, and advice. With CCR's coming up thats what the conversation tended to be most about. Lets break it down.

In my group we were a group of 5. Rehan Khan, Sofia Brown, Lucia Trinidad, Alexis Lee, and me, obviously. All of my group members shared that they're all working alone except Rehan whos working with another partner. In the group, I was the first one to speak. Out of all of us I was the one with most done. This truly did comfort me knowing I wasn't falling behind and getting everything sent by the due date was possible. With most of my editing done, I began by showing them my film opening. They loved it. Hearing those words come out of someone's mouth when showing somethings that's such a big deal to me and have truly it so much time into feels extremely reliving. Although I did ask for feedback none of them had anything to provide me with. We did all  agree on the fact I should change the font of  the credit sequence since the background is pretty chaotic and colorful it gets sort of hard to read. They really liked all the inserts and how everything falls on beat, specially for the gymnastics part. I them proceeded to tell them on my idea for one of my CCR's. I explained how I would dress up as Dorthy and walk down a yellow brick road while explaining my project I will run into challenges as in the movie and have characters such as the tinfoil man represent my team members. Once all is done, that yellow brick road, will lead me to my Wizard of Oz, my project. I plan to end it by doing  focus pull to a usb drive when saying those words. As well as the film opening they thought it was a great idea. This made me extremely happy since I also am super excited about my idea and think it could work for that creative factor. Once I told them my idea I explained my worry on the other CCR. As I would love to do another creative piece however I can't tell if it will end up being too much work to do both well and in time. They recommended me to do a talk show and just add a lot of sounds to make the talk show funny. I will definitely be taking it into consideration.

Rehan Khan was then next to tell about his project. Rehan is in the filming and editing part of his project. He still needs to film some clips but ha recently learned to edit and has been putting it into practice. He showed us the makeup they needed to do for the film and wow it turned out amazing, super realistic. Rehan seemed to be on board and  everything to be going smoothly. He didn't say much for his CCR as he isn't really thinking on that and focusing on finishing his film opening which I agree to be the correct decision. He didn't really ask for advice as he did give a lot of it. I was really surprised to hear that he said h usually hates editing and found it impossible however he has recently been receiving classes from a friend and is now able to edit his own piece well and feels it isn't as complicated as he had set it to be. Overall, Rehan seems to be doing well and  doesn't look to worried on what's to come.

We then moved on to Sofia Brown. Sofia is in the editing and filming section. What she explained to have been doing is while filming her scenes she goes adding them together to avoid making it feel too overwhelming. She explained to us that she did have some struggles filming as her story wasn't coming together as he expected but has been working around that issue and it's working out. For CCRs she just knows she's planning on doing one from her characters point of view. I think this was a really cool idea especially since her character is more of an investigator I feel as if it can end up turning out really cool. She asked for advice for the clip to use when the title of the film goes on. We all agreed on one which I believe helped her out confirm her decision. She explained to us the process it took for her to use the lettering she used and I have to say it really payed off because it genuinely looks so good an fits the film so well. Sofia seems to be rolling good and her projects seems to be going smoothly even after those few bumps she's had along the way. 

Alexis Lee and Lucia Trinidad both are in the filming and editing stages of their film. I don't have much to say since they didn't mention much. Lucia hasn't thought out of her idea well enough to explain anything to us for her CCR while Alexis has thought on doing a documentary but isn't too sure either. Alexis was able to reflect on our projects and our progress to this day makin her realize how's she's under filmed and is needing more clips. I'm glad by even just explaining our project she was able to use it to her own benefit and  apply it to her own. There wasn't much said from their part I just advised them to try to get filming done as quick as possie to give themselves time to edit and do their CCR's. 

I personally think group meetings are a great idea and resource and help reflect on your project through others while having the opportunity to feel comfortable to speak your mind.