The last project of this module is a group project, meaning that I need to have a group. Last year my group project was not the best experience I've ever had, as the other members of my group did very little and I carried most of the work of the project, by both writing, directing and editing the video.
Luckily Teresa and Rita found my idea of making stop-motion/digital ink animation about Alice's Adventures in Wonderland interesting enough to join my project. I expect much better work, due to the input they had early on in the project. As Teresa is very interested in taking photographs, it really helps that our background are going to be stop motion and thus all still photographs put together.
Working with a group can either be a blessing or a curse, depending on the project and the people. As this is a project that requires a significant amount of work, being in a group is going to be better. Animation is very labour-intensive we will be needing all the help we can get. It's going to be long hours and much preparation before the actual production.
As the director I am the leader of the group. This is both a role I chose as well as a role that I usually happen to fall into. I ask to many questions of people, wondering why to do things a certain way and annoy them into saying I should do it instead... Not the best trait to have. In this case, the original pitch and idea were mine, so it was a logical decision to also have me as the director and writer. Both girls did say that just because it was my idea, it was not a given that I should also write it (look at hollywood movies, which are written by someone who usually does not direct the end product).
Luckily Teresa and Rita found my idea of making stop-motion/digital ink animation about Alice's Adventures in Wonderland interesting enough to join my project. I expect much better work, due to the input they had early on in the project. As Teresa is very interested in taking photographs, it really helps that our background are going to be stop motion and thus all still photographs put together.
Working with a group can either be a blessing or a curse, depending on the project and the people. As this is a project that requires a significant amount of work, being in a group is going to be better. Animation is very labour-intensive we will be needing all the help we can get. It's going to be long hours and much preparation before the actual production.
As the director I am the leader of the group. This is both a role I chose as well as a role that I usually happen to fall into. I ask to many questions of people, wondering why to do things a certain way and annoy them into saying I should do it instead... Not the best trait to have. In this case, the original pitch and idea were mine, so it was a logical decision to also have me as the director and writer. Both girls did say that just because it was my idea, it was not a given that I should also write it (look at hollywood movies, which are written by someone who usually does not direct the end product).
