Social distancing has presented many challenges to everyone’s lives. In completing a recent group project, those challenges were very apparent. The group project consisted on making a video together, which was very challenging not only because we couldn’t physically meet up, but also because many of the shots we had planned to film had to be accomplished in a different way due to the lock-down in the country.
Making plans to have a video chat together to discuss the process also proved difficult and we were never able to accomplish that so we ended up coming up with our pieces of the video separately and editing them together so that they could appear seamless as possible. It was also difficult trying to help each other with technical aspects while not being together. One of the group members had a lot of difficulty with their portion of the video and when it was sent to me pieces of audio were missing or out of sync and as much as I tried to edit it to make sense, I couldn’t. I ended up having to have her re-record her audio and I pieced the audio together over stock footage. While I didn’t mind helping, it was just frustrating as it could have been much easier to accomplish together if we could have physically been together to work on this.
Working together with others can always have complications, but I believe that considering the circumstances our video actually came together very well. I enjoyed the project despite the challenges we faced and I felt like I learned a lot about video editing and how to make a good video with others.
If I were to be presented with a similar group project in the future, I would probably insist on better communication as I thought it would have been appropriate for us to have at least one video chat together. But because of the stressful situation that is ongoing, I can’t be too critical as we are dealing with something we could have never predicted.
No Rest for the Scientists 