Group Meeting Reflection

 This week we had the opportunity to talk to other people working on their projects to develop our ideas and help each other understand what we want to achieve. It was helpful in expressing our ideas to make sure they made sense and to adjust them to better work with the project and develop them further. 

My group members gave me different pieces of feedback about my idea but liked it for the most part. They thought it was a good film idea with an original opening. As I went into detail explaining the different elements of the opening they gave me different takes on what I could do leading up to other parts and locations to film. Overall the feedback I received was positive with a couple suggestions to enhance what I had already established. 

I wish that they might've given me a few more negative opinions so that I might make it a bit better. I think they might not have wanted to say their real opinions so they wouldn't make anyone else feel bad, I think this because I do it sometimes. But with projects like this I know it's important to be honest with everyone and give them honest feedback. 

I gave many of my group members honest opinions and ideas to change or improve their openings or storylines to make more sense with what we were going to be able to show. The ideas that I was told about were good, so I honestly didn't have to give much criticism, but I tried to be as honest as I could to give everyone the best chance of being successful. 

I hope the people in my group were honest with me as well so that I can use the improvements they gave me to make sure my project is as good as it can be. I need to make sure to get my sound effects as good and accurate as possible to make sure the scene is realistic, I need to find a good location to get the audience to fully immerse themselves into the story and pay a lot of attention to the costuming details because of the outdoor location.

I took some notes during our meeting about the other member's ideas and points to help further develop their stories. Most of the feedback we gave was verbal so it isn't shown, but the notes give an overview of the ideas that the people in my group had. A lot of them were completing their project alone, so I think that receiving this feedback helped them a lot to state and process their ideas. 

I think doing this again later on would help me in the post production process to make sure the film opening looks the best it can and if possible one more time before filming to make sure I can use my time as effectively as possible. 

I really liked meeting with a group to voice my ideas and hear them. It helped me see if they actually made sense or not based on the overall reactions from the group and the same went for the ideas of the other members as well. 

This is an audio clip of us figuring out an idea based on the feedback we received.