I learned a lot about myself over the course of this project. I have more fun and generally perform better with projects I feel passionate about, and this video gave me a chance to work on something like that. I also learned that I am not the most organized filmmaker and that perhaps I could work on creating a better strategy for organizing my footage before I begin editing in order to optimize the process. Dealing with uncertainty has never been something I have excelled at, but I feel more comfortable with it now. I have seen how projects that start with my uncertainty turn out and I know that I do not have to go into a project knowing exactly what I want.
I really appreciated all of the feedback I got about my video. It was nice to know that everyone appreciated the project I reflected on and I liked hearing about certain things I need to improve. It was awesome to have other perspectives on my work since I was the only one who had really seen it besides my mom and a friend. I noticed a lot of different film styles in everyone else's work, which I thought was interesting. We all took different approaches to storytelling and they were all pretty effective. I think the most helpful feedback I heard for anyone was about getting the story to flow. The pacing of the video is important to me and I liked seeing and hearing how other people tackled that issue.
I would tell them to focus on something they really care about because it makes the project a lot more fun and a lot easier. I would also tell them to try to stay organized in some way because it will make editing go a lot faster. For my final project, I will try to stay more organized and make a better plan ahead of time because I feel as though that could have helped me in this project.