In terms of how the class went, I enjoyed the exercise and being able to collaborate across campuses. I think it’s important to have activities like that because we’re all trying to become more comfortable, but we’re also all on different levels in terms of our experience within production. I liked how some people were good at one thing and others good at the next. I think it helps allow people to be more comfort in speaking up and also, building one another skills because we’re all learning from each other. I am also more of a hands-on person so being able to go out and shoot as much as possible always helps me in continuing to build my craft up. It was great to be able to help people when they didn’t know how to edit or didn’t know how to work the camera. I also was able to get help in some editing techniques so I thought the exercise was great. It also opened the floor for more conversation in such a big production course, more people will begin to talk to each other.
I agree with Tracey, the collaboration of schools allowed me to be more interactive with students from other schools. I really liked the activity because of this, I also feel like it will help me to be more comfortable in class. This was the first time I got to operate a camera of that quality. It was a little difficult, but extremely fun. I look forward to making more videos, longer and better. I really want to get better at using the editing software. I really liked the idea we had and feel like for the amount of time we had we mastered the exercise. I hope we can do something similar next week.