I think the biggest struggle during this project was that our group lost most of the computer on a technology malfunction. We had 5 minutes of our documentary completed with plenty of more time to get more footage of what we thought we might need, and when the malfunction on the MAC computer happened it messed our entire project up.
What I am most proud of from this project is that the video turned out pretty good, and that I was able to go to Starbucks and interview and ask people questions that I really had no idea what I was talking about. Before this project I had never been to a Starbucks, and had never planned on going to a Starbucks. So I was proud of myself for going into that environment and being able to get interviews from customers.
The aspect of the documentary that I would have changed would probably have been the topic we did our project on. We all thought doing our documentary on Starbucks would give us a variety of topics to discuss, but I think we kind of hit a wall. Felt like we ran out of clip to get for the documentary and the customers in the interviews didn't like going in depth about some of the questions we were trying to ask. That would be the biggest aspect of the project that I think should have been changed after completing the project.
If I had 6 months to work on this project I would have tried to come up with a game plan on how, as a group we were going to try to handle this project. With the short time we had to complete the documentary during this semester, I think in 6 months we would have been able to get better interviews, complete a larger survey with more information on what people think of Starbucks, and had more time to work as a group instead of individuals.
In the project I was responsible for getting shots and interviews for the documentary. I mostly got interviews with customers, few different shots of what the atmosphere of Starbucks looked like.
Personally I thought our group was getting along great, until we lost most of our project, and then I think everybody just got overwhelmed and we all feel apart. We didn't have great communication outside of class once the video was lost. Before the malfunction I tried to see if we could meet during certain times and work on project together. I wish we were able to all work on the project together, and I think I could help with others tasks if I had been asked to. I was more than willing to, but I guess I didn't make that clear. I feel as if I contributed a well amount to the group during the entire project.
