Group Dynamics

 Group Dynamics and Teamwork

Hey fellow bloggers, and thanks for reading. Hope you're all having a great day. Today I'll be talking about group dynamics and how my team has worked together. Since I only have one group mate, there shouldn't be too much to cover. Mainly I'll be talking about how we're advancing, if everyone is doing their part, who else helped us, and the biggest challenge. 

First of all, I think we've been advancing very well and that our work is high quality. With my groupmate Luis in front of the camera and me behind it, I think we both feel very natural. I'm good at giving him pointers on how to move and how quickly, since I'm a big fan of film and directors. He's also good at giving suggestions on how to edit and what angles to get. Without a doubt, everyone is doing their part and even helping the other in some cases.

As far is if anybody else helped us, only two others come to mind. Our friends Luke and Adrian helped us pick what angles to shoot from, how to edit them, and most importantly how natural they looked. After a bunch of takes, it's easy to get disconnected from how the shots actually look as the camera man or actor. From the outside, looking at the set without actually participating yourself makes errors that we didn't see very obvious. We've fixed things such as awkward shots or scenes due to this.

Lastly, when it comes to any challenges, only one comes to mind: timing. Our short film opener is only a measly two minutes! If we spend a minute and a half just on the training montage, we'll only have about 15 seconds to show him actually playing basketball! Obviously, this was a no-go. To alleviate this, me and Luis decided to speed up certain clips, such as him walking through his house or walking to his car. Doing this, we managed to shorten the montage section of the video and left about a minute left over for the basketball scene.