The Last Return: Music Video Edition

 

Hi! I hope you are doing well! 


    Due to procrastination, the final draft is still not finished which means there is not much content for this blog. Instead, I am going to use this space as something of a self-reflection of myself on the project and share some input from those around me. 

    In my own opinion, the beginning of this project started very strong but went downhill afterward. Both my partner and I have hectic schedules that resulted in a lot of procrastination and midnight half-thought decisions which led to a worse project than I could have produced. My brother, who I mentioned was good with filming, had offered to help over our school break a couple weeks ago, but I chose not to and procrastinate which once again worsened the quality of the project. Finally, as proven by my procrastination, I did not take this project as seriously as I could have. With all of my classes, this has one of the lightest workloads so I dismissed it as needing less attention. I realize now that it was a mistake and had I given this more priority I would not have had the issues I am facing at the end of this. 

    However, there is not to say I did not anything well. I managed to do a lot of quick decisions and made the best of what I had. For example, I managed to fix my editing issue with only a day or so delay and taught my mom how to film in a couple minutes without a tripod. I also still managed to do all my work before the deadlines which after speaking with other students, was not true for everyone. 

    I showed my rough draft to some of my friends, and they agreed with the obvious issues I mentioned in prior blogs. Otherwise, they did not have many comments. This could be a good sign, but then again, teenagers are notoriously unreliable for advice. I also showed it to an old teacher I was talking to yesterday. They gave similar vague comments that one would expect.  However, my partner did like it and thinks we did well despite our setbacks. I hope you have a nice day! 






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