Yesterday, I finished working on a long term group project for English class. Our assignment was to create a five minute video that had a storyline inspired by one of the novels we have read over the semester.
Our group decided to make our skit about Romeo and Juliet, since that is what we spent most of the semester focusing on. In addition, we decided to use the Steve Harvey talk show as a model.
One of the group members was Steve Harvey, who asked Romeo and Juliet all the questions. Each player had the opportunity to answer his questions.
Filming our project took a very long time. I arrived at our filming location around 1:00, and we started filming at 2:00. However, it took nearly 4 hours to finish filming.
After filming, we had a lot of editing to do. Since I was the only one who had any video editing experience, I was unfortunately stuck with most of the work.
I finally finished editing around 8:00 pm. It was going to take another hour to render the completed video, so I left. The host was able to turn in the video for us.
Overall, this was a very difficult, but fun assignment that I will remember for a long time. I have not done something like this since 7th grade, but it was a completely different story that time.
That year, my group procrastinated on the video so much that we only had an afternoon to film and edit it. We had to film after school, and then edit it at night.
I ended up staying up all night trying to edit the video, and unsurprisingly, I failed. The finished product was a very sloppy video that had random cuts and pauses.
What I learned from that project is that procrastination will never have good results, so at the very least I would never make that mistake again. Especially considering video editing, projects like these tend to be very time-consuming.
Deesha Pathak 