Project Countdown

This summer session in 6X1 has been hectic! However, now that 6X1 and French cinema is over, I can see just how awesome this class was. I believe in our many projects I’ve made more friends and connections than I have in my whole time at UNCW. Some of the projects were a little stressful because I somehow kept winding up in the bigger groups. Since I have to rate my projects here is the countdown.

6) I think that the media fast was my least favorite, and not just because I gave up media for 2 days. I believe that the project we turned in could of be better, but since we chose shadows as our subject suffered a little because we had to choose our concept and film it before the sun went down or the shadows got too long. I loved our shadow idea, but our product just wasn’t very good.

5) I’m going to say the Anaglyph was my second least favorite project. To be honest this project is low on the list because of my personal feelings towards it.   The people in my group were great but our group was way too big, I felt like a useless mule. There were a lot of people with a lack of ideas, and I felt that the few times I did speak up people didn’t hear me, or just didn’t care. I was also hurt that all the pieces of the set I worked hard on the night before was just thrown aside and not used. This project was just an emotional sour point for me but I did take some photos.

4) Now this is getting tough because I enjoyed the other projects so much! I really enjoyed the crowd sourcing project. It was just great seeing how so many people can come together and make on amazing project. My roommate was beast when it came to the making the frames, we actually finished all of mine by 9:30, and had plenty of time to escort some lost orientations to Graham and Hewlett. I also made a soundscape for the crowd sourcing video. I went in with one idea, but as I was trying to find static and chanting I discovered all these other sound effect that I personally enjoyed and made me want to rework my idea.

3) The cameraless project is number three just because the last two was sooooo fun to make. I love the scratching, bleaching, and magazine transfers. My favorite thing about this project overall is the fact that I can say “I know how to load a projector! Can you punk?!?!?!?”

2) Oh! The animation! I had a blast with this. Once again I didn’t do much, but I was so on board with every idea my teammates had! Plus the cigarette I mad for the anaglyph shoot got used. Only thing I regret is that I didn’t get to see Ryne’s soundscape with it. His and Danielle’s idea for the story and sound was so funny and awesome I couldn’t possibly come up with one to beat it so I didn’t even try.

 And a drum roll please

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1) As if you didn’t know it already #1 was the long-take. While yes I was so afraid if I touched the camera I would break it, it was still a great thing to see. This project was so impromptu, but in a planned way I couldn’t help but love. I was also behind and in front of the camera, and I hate being in front of the camera! But, the people involved in this project were so much fun to be around and brainstorm with. Figuring out our second sensory was tough, but one Channing found the Rapping app we knew that was it, I think we made about five different raps in the editing lab just messing around, seeing everyone’s confusion and then awe as we presented our second sensory had to be my favorite moment, not only in this project, but in this class. 

There you go! My project countdown and some photo's to boot!