Commercial project


This was my first big project that I've done in this class. I worked on it by myself which made it a little more difficult, but not to bad. This meant I had to improvise a lot where other groups with more people wouldn't have too. For example when filming I didn't have another person in my group to film for me. I had to get both of my parents to help out. Also if I had another member they could help me brainstorm ideas and other things. In my opinion that is the biggest drawback of working alone. You don't have anyone to help you come up with ideas and ways to improve. Yeah you can get your parents to a little, but they would never do it to the extent someone in your group would that's being graded on it. There are many aspects I could improve on if I were to do this project or one similar to it. To start off I would definitely choose a better setting to film. My backyard is big, but there are just to many obstacles. They got in the way of some shots as well as restricting me from doing some things that I originally planned to do. Another thing that I could fix would be the number of members in my group. Lots of my friends are not aloud out to see people because of covid. If I were able to though I definitely would. Over the course of this project my skills of editing and filming have came from nothing, to just being average. There are always ways to improve. All in all I'm proud of this project. I hope they just keep getting better from here on out.

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