This final
project has taught me a lot of new things; things I never thought of learning
in college. This has been a very important semester for me because I found that
I knew a lot more about studio production and filming work than I thought I
did. In 3 months, I learned a good bit about production work. Of course, I
didn’t learn everything there is to know, but I’d say I got 2 semesters-worth
of work under my belt.
The main
factor of this project was breaking it down by 3 different levels of
Communication study. The first part was building the script. In order to do so,
I had to bring out old notes from Media Studies and other New Media classes.
This required a lot of research into genre and film clichés. This was the most
time consuming, as well as boring, but I believe the script was both fun and
interesting for my audience.
The second
part was actually filming and editing the film. I knew less about this than the
rest of my entire project. Luckily, I had the Comm professors as well as
students to assist me. Again, this part was time consuming, but it made me feel
very accomplished once it was all finished. Of course, because I’m less
familiar with filming and editing, I did make some mistakes, but I’ve been told
that they’re beginner mistakes, so no big deal.
The last
part of my project has been the social media aspect of it. This was the part I
was the most familiar with, but in order for it to be successful, I needed many
people to participate. Unfortunately, my audience was small and non-committing.
If I would do this project differently, I would have focused a lot more on the
Facebook page.
As I said,
I was very excited to learn a lot more than I thought I would. I’m very excited
to do something new for my Capstone, and I hope the rest of my audience loves
it as well.
