Cambridge Portfolio Week 2/28, Group Meetings

Group Meetings

Hello, welcome back to my Cambridge Portfolio blog. I know that I have not made any posts in a while, but it's been quite a busy week and I've been spending time planning. This blog post will be something a little different; it's about a group meeting that I had in class, in which we would talk about our progress.

To start off, we waited until everyone was ready, and I decided to go first. I explained that my film was about a man who woke up in a post-apocalyptic world, and that at the end he is attacked by a mysterious entity. I asked for their thoughts and the feedback I received was positive. They liked the idea and did not say anything negative about it. They asked when I would film and I said it would probably be in 1-3 weeks.

The next person said that he didn't have much of an idea yet, but it was about a person who is working out. I told him it seemed like a good idea but he needed to think about it more. I gave him some tips, like how he needed to spend some more time planning, do his planning in advance, and that he should probably think about it with the class time he had. At the end he told me he had thought about the person getting injured and other things that would happen. I was positive and told him he did a good job of creating a better plot for the opening.

Unfortunately the two other people in the meeting didn't seem to have much of an idea for their film and that they hadn't done much for their blogs, either. I told them my thoughts, that they should try to work on their blogs more in the future and that they should plan in advance. I linked a blog post of mine to maybe use as an example and to ask for some kind of feedback. They again liked the idea and I explained that I would like my opening to be a thriller. We spent a most of the rest of the time to think about what we were doing wrong and improving on our ideas.

 

Was this group meeting helpful?

The group meeting was definitely helpful as it let me know if anything was right or wrong with what I was doing so far. However, I wish that my peers were more constructive and critical about my work, and that our discussion was more productive. I now know that other people were having trouble and that I was actually doing quite well, though this doesn't mean I think I don't need to improve.