Group Meetings

Today was disappointing but possibly for the better.

In my AICE Media Studies class, we got into groups of six, where one person would go one at a time to tell the group about their progress in the portfolio project. After the person finished talking then other people in the group would comment, give ideas, and ask more questions about their project. I feel like this activity really helped me and other students because it helped us realize our mistakes and problems. For example, one of the people that were in my group had too much going on in her storyboard so she was worried that it would not all fit in the two minutes. Therefore, another student gave her an idea that would shorten or cut out many of the shots she was planning to include.

For my part, I did not get very good news. As soon as I said that a serial killer would be stalking the group of friends at the party, one of the people that were in my group meeting said that Mrs. Stoklosa (my teacher) did not want anybody to make a film opening that had to do with stalking or kidnapping. This put me in shock because I totally forgot that my teacher said that. Therefore, this made me really nervous because all that I have researched and planned for the plot of my film would go down the drain, and I also have a limited amount of time to work on this project.

At the end of class, my partner and I met up and discussed what other classmates said about our project. Surprisingly, no one from his group meeting said anything about the teacher not wanting a film opening on stalking. He said that they actually liked our idea for the film opening, so I was confused and asked myself "Did Mrs. Stoklosa actually say no stalking or did my group misinterpret something that she said," "Maybe I'm actually safe?!" Therefore, Reeves and I decided to ask Mrs. Stoklosa if making a kidnapping/stalking film was permitted. 

Unfortunately, she did say no kidnapping/stalking for the theme of film openings. It does not matter though, my partner and I will work past this problem to create an even better opening than we originally planned. It won't be easy but thankfully we got each other's ideas, and we have two brains to think of better ideas. In addition, I also got great ideas from my classmates from the group meeting that will help me improve some of my original ideas and other great ideas that will assist me in creating a new storyline for my opening. For this reason, there is no reason to cry but to keep moving forward.