Blog #12: Final Reflection

From the beginning, we decided that the best way to accomplish the task was to split up the work between the four of us. We each choose a part of the project that we thought would be the best use of our own skills. I decided that I would start writing the script because I thought I was the more creative person in the group. Once everyone got to work, I immediately noticed that some of the things my other group members were assigned, weren't going to be done correctly. All of us were working while Tucker was sitting at the computer shopping on Amazon. I assumed that he was going to finish his work at home but he never did. After 2 days of this I confronted him about it and he ignored me. Art and I wrote the entire script and found the majority of the quotes from each scene. Ajay didn't nothing up until the Sunday before it was due. We are the most creative group in the class, but if we all worked together, I thought we could make a script that would be amazing. Having only 2/4 people work on this project made it nearly impossible to finish everything on time. All of us have jobs outside of school so it made it difficult to meet up outside of school. This shouldn't be an excuse but when half of the group does nothing in class, it becomes frustrating. I made it very clear that I wouldn't be able to film outside of school, but the other group members did not take that into consideration when we allocated our time. Thinking back on the project, it was a complete failure and its my fault for choosing bad group members. Next time we have a big project, I am going to make sure that I have group members that will be responsible for their part of the project. These are group projects which means they require group thinking. The one positive thing that I got out of these project was how fun it was to recreate a classic story into a modern movie. I personally found Hamlet a little boring so being able to recreate it into a more modern style was awesome. It taught me a lot more about the meaning behind Hamlet.