- A 350-word post on collaboration – Did you have any issues in the making of your work? How did you overcome them? What makes a good collaborator?
In assignment 4, we are asked to work in a small group. Cooperation is a very important course in college because it is related to whether you can finish your assignment or get a high mark. In this exercise, our cooperation is very smooth but sometimes we also face many problems. The biggest problem we encounter is that everyone has their own ideas, sometimes it is difficult to unify. For example, graffiti is our theme, when we were shooting street artists in Melbourne central, we had a disagreement about shooting methods. I think we should focus on the details of artists’ paintings, but rain felt that if we recorded the whole painting process, it would shock the audience. So, we decided to rent two video cameras to record them from two angles. When disagreements arise, communication is the most effective solution. Also, how to assign tasks is also a challenge for us. Because we shoot a lot of videos, we need to divide the work of screening and editing the videos. So, each of us needs to roughly to edit more than 100 videos. But we haven’t considered is that in this process, the video may be duplicated or omitted. For instance, a shot you want to add is not in the video you are assigned to, so when we finally merge the videos that each one has edited it, it is also a big project, even a little waste of time and energy. So, we decided to work together in the final cut, which is good for the effect of the final video up because if someone comes up different opinions we can immediately try different methods, such as one person finds a better video and the other one can edit it. It is unavoidable to encounter contradictions in cooperation. Sometimes it is not beneficial for the work to stick to one’s own ideas. On the contrary, sharing ideas and communicating with each other may be more conducive to the completion of the work.