Meet the Team!

Today is September 19th, 2020 and today we were instructed to officially begin planning for our final task. This initial step even included selecting team members for our Final Task! As a recap for those who may not have followed my previous blogs, last year for my Final Task I worked individually. The main benefit of choosing to work individually was time flexibility. During last years spring season I played for Fort Lauderdale High's baseball team in which we practiced 6/7 days of the week. Additionally, I would not know it yet, but the ongoing global pandemic would begin to spread and any outside activates would be cancelled because a Stay at Home Order was in effect. In hindsight, this choice of working individually was likely my best option as I could trust myself to complete the work objectives by the deadline, however, it proved to be a large work load at times. Thus bringing me to the largest downside of working individually, the large workload in a relatively small time frame. The opening sequence needed to be 2 minutes long, however, the actual filming, editing, re-shooting, and re-editing processes took a lot of time and I only had myself to conduct the videography, actors, lighting, and editing techniques used. Thus this brought me to a realization of why movies in real life are produced usually using multiple personal, even teams, as the workload and cost in time would simply be too much for an individual. As such, this year I have decided to work with a group to ease the workload and to complete the Final Task in a time efficient manor. The group that I have chosen to work with has proven to me that they have a strong work ethic and match the quality of work that I produce. Their names are Chloe, Hillery, and Tess. Furthermore, beside their strong work ethic, they also bring videography/photography equipment and editing software's to the table. I believe with the work ethic and combined technology that these members contribute, it will greatly assist myself - and the team - in producing a high quality product, worthy of a film festival or studio. With this being said, as a team member myself I need to bring something to the table to contribute to the progress of the Final Task. Specifically, I want to mention the equipment that I will have access to use during the filming/editing stages of the Final Task. For instance, I have access to a DJI Mavic Pro 2 Drone, a professional Nikon camera with video capability, a GoPro Hero 7, and Final Cut Pro. These technologies combined, as stated previously, should allow my group to produce a high quality product worthy of the audience's time. Stay tuned as I continue to blog through my journey of the class and producing my Final Task with my new group!