1 x blog post reflecting on collaboration Were you a good collaborator? Reflect on what you did well and where you may improve for future productions

I think a lot of the project relied on teamwork, especially feedback from peers and in my case, Joe. I think it was extremely important to work together as a group to allow both of our strengths to flourish in our documentary project. I believe I was a good collaborator and contributed a lot of my time and work actively to create our final piece. I believe I was particularly good at the editing component of the work; I would send videos and ideas to Joe during the editing process, asking for feedback and what we could perhaps change. I definitely am not at all a master at Premier, but I think I worked diligently regardless of the skills I have. I think I also did well in taking Rohan’s advice into consideration and going to my best effort to change and make adjustments to things he thought needed to do so. I think that listening actively when I was in class and making notes of changes helped to enhance our work as a group.

I think that I could improve my camera skills for future productions because this was my first time using a professional camera, I was clueless before this class on how to use one at all. Because of this, I did find it quite difficult to get the camerawork right when we were filming, I do think some of our shots are not as crisp or nice as they could be if I improved on my camerawork. As well as this, I think my time management could be better for future productions, as pointed out in our original consult with Rohan, we were ‘behind the 8-ball’. We were quite slow to get started with things and overall could have managed our time better to ensure we had as much time as possible to refine our final project and get it to be our best work. We could have done this with better communication and more dedicated time management to make sure we were both on top of the things we needed to be for that week. I also think that it may have helped more to assign specific roles between Joe and I, I think because of our inexperience in creating film projects, we were kind of unsure of what we both could manage to take on. I believe from the start; we should have found a better way to maximise our individual skills to work in a group because things became a little muddled at times.

Overall, I learnt a lot about collaborative film work, and I will use what I have learnt from this class for future productions throughout university.