Day 10

 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

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