Blog post reflecting on collaboration

I usually don’t work with people on uni assignments because I think it can be hard to trust other people to do work how you would want it to be done. However, for this assignment, I thought it would be a good idea to work in a group because I wanted to create something more ambitious and be able to be proud of it and show people, but also because in the industry I will have to work with people. 

 

Something I have learned is that you will never make a film alone, so it is important to have not just good leadership but good teamwork skills as well. I had a good time working on this film in a group and I think that is because I had a really good filmmaker working alongside me. I know this won’t always be the case, but I think that if all members communicate about what they want to achieve you will be able to work it out. We both early on decided that we wanted to take the assignment a step further and create something that could potentially be submitted to festivals. With this in mind, we both knew that we had a big workload coming up. Our work took a very long time to finish but we still made sure that we followed our original agreement of working on it together while together. Although we would have been able to work twice as fast we did not want two weak voices showing throughout the documentary, rather one strong and unified one. This approach definitely has its pros and cons. It requires long working days many hours long together and can be a difficult approach for people who work better alone or when they’re in bed.

 

 I think in the future I might approach collaboration differently, not necessarily because I don’t think my current method is effective but just to experiment and see if there is something that might work better. I think that when I have a tighter deadline, I would have to divide work and make sure that it is done individually because something I learned in my filmmaking experience is that it took many late hours fo both people to stay in the edit suite. I think that this experience has made me more open to working in groups and collaborating with other people because I know that I would not have been able to create something that I am proud of if it was just me doing all of the work.

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