YOUR JOB AS A CLASS:
Formulate a group that enhances your strengths by covering your weaknesses! You need a group that has no real weakness, but giving everyone an opportunity to have something they are the best at, and something they are the weakest at! Cover your ground! Group size must be between 3 and 5. A group of six will lead to two groups of 4, or one group of 5 and one group of 3, so think about balance!
Cover your bases! You want to be great! But you want to come in knowing what you can do, that everyone else can not! This is not about selfishness, and thinking your poop doesn’t stink. it’s about being honest about your skills, and finding a team of people you can learn from and grow with! It’s about collaborating in a way where everyone can get stronger!
Then, post the rules for groups from sound class. Tailor a bit for animation.
Give the class to brainstorm ideas. In a week and a half, will need a storyboard designed! Everyone must design an equal percent of it, so you will need to take parts, and stick them together. I’ll show you how to divide up the scenes you make and the like next week. This weekend: Design your story ideas! Create 3 outlines, choose the best one to work with! Turn all 3 into me next tuesday!
As a group, you will work together to rank your teammates and yourself in each area on a scale from one to ten. You will help each other think critically about your skills (highlighting positives, and areas of improvement! Keep a balance of each when you discuss this!). Before you do, think about what a 3, a 5, and a 7 would be. Because all of you have different skill levels, you want to balance your thoughts between commonly accepted levels of personal quality, and personal development, i.e. the stage you’re at now, vs the stage you want to be at.
*note, this exercise is not about making you feel like garbage about your art, or making you feel like you’re the best of all time. It’s about helping you think objectively about your improvement! One of the problems we often face when we try to get better at something is that we stick personal hurdles we create in our own head in front of the door to personal improvement. [ i can only do this, I only have x amount of time, I have other things to do, this is really hard for me.] * (I will draw an example for the class) If we think objectively about these problems, we can start creating solutions! The solution for these problems will be your film as it’s being created, as well as the opportunities you create to learn from each other! The research you do personally! The support for this is you and your team interactions and dynamics as you motivate each other!
Read: This is about making the most of the time you *do* have, no matter how large or small, and approaching that block of time with
clear thinking, encompassing a realistic, positive, optimistic, and creative mindset!*
Your goal will be to increase by at least 3 points in each by the end of the semester! As you continue this project, you will make at least one piece of content at each stage of your film that shows honest growth in these areas!
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