Jacks Senior Project

 Day 11 Today is a day of wrapping up. We made final touches on both the documentary and the poster, ensuring they are ready to present once we get back on campus. We also went to the art store to buy wrapping paper and tape to wrap up the poster so that we could safely carry it back to school. We also spent time writing our self-reflection essay and filling out the timesheet. We worked for a total of around 3 hours today.  Grace and Claire wrap up the poster Total hours worked: 87 hrs

 Weekend Reflection #2 After a week of hard work and dedication, we finished everything about our project, including the poster and the documentary, except for a few final touches that should not take long. I learned a lot about teamwork. There are many times when we fell into disagreement but were able to resolve them by each compromising and taking a step back. I also learned that editing is much more complicated and tedious than I thought. Precision editing is the hardest part of making this documentary: cropping the clips, dragging them around, and adjusting their volume is a pretty dull job, especially when I have to repeat it for every single clip (there are probably 100 clips in total).  To be honest, I grew bored of my job because of how repetitive it is. I was also frustrated as the weekend approached, worrying I won't be able to finish editing the documentary and still save enough time for revising and many of the evaluative work completed. However, when I heard my p...

 Day 10 Today, I finished everything for the documentary except for the final section and the outro. I am super excited to have it ready and present it to my peers, as these past two weeks have been significant to the three of us. Grace and Claire are pretty much done with the poster, saving us plenty of time to make corrections and final touches. We still need to decide on how we want this film to end. There are plenty of options, but we hope to settle on one that will satisfy all of us. After plenty of discussions and "arguments," each of our group members has learned to negotiate and compromise, two critical skills for all kinds of group work. However, this is a growth I did not expect at first but is positive and beneficial.  Grace and Claire working on the poster Me editing the documentary Total work hours: 84 hrs

 Day 9 The past two days were not very eventful. Because we were able to get most of the interviews and outdoor work completed in the first week, we spent time doing work indoors to get the tedious and detailed jobs done. This morning, we had a major debate on the rest of the storyline of our documentary. We each had different opinions, where some of us liked the initial interviews while others preferred the one from yesterday. It was hard to settle on one decision, so we decided to try out both. So, I made one version of the edit with the first couple of interviews, saved it, and made another edit where more recent interviews were used. To be honest, they are both excellent. And after a thorough review, we incorporated both and made a third edit that we all liked. Because of this change, Grace and Claire also had to adjust to the poster by taking out and adding some new characters. Though this occupied most of our time in the afternoon, we were satisfied with the change and are pr...

 Day 8 Today, we started off with working indoor. Grace and Claire finished on the scripts for our poster, while I finished editing section 2 of the documentary. However, when I reviewed the edits I have so far, I realized that I needed more interview clips for the documentary to make the storyline abundant; after all, the more the merrier. We spent a few hours under the Brooklyn bridge looking for targets and conducting interviews. After we are satisfied with what we have, we went to the Blick art store to get glue for Grace's and Claire's poster work.  Grace and Claire grinding on their poster work Total work hours: 67hrs

 Day 7 Today, we went to the Blick art store in Brooklyn since it is closer to us. However, after searching the store, they didn't have the materials we needed. So we went to the one in Manhattan and spent some time getting the materials. Meanwhile, I filmed more footage to be used as transitional scenes and ending scenes. After we got back, we devoted a couple of solid hours to poster work and documentary editing. Grace and Claire worked on the writing part of the poster while I worked halfway through the second section of the documentary. Later on, we reviewed my edit and had a group discussion of our progress. Together, we made adjustments to my work-in-progress edit, where they told me what they thought should be added into the intro and first section, as well as what should be taken out.  Grace working on the poster Total work hours: 58.5