Welcome back to the blog with the most confusing array of content. Today I will be capping off the horror project that seems to be going on forever. Don’t worry it’s done, this is a reflective post. Before I deconstruct the project allow me to show you the movie. Well, kind of. It’s a trailer for a movie. I’ll explain later.

I give to you. Dirty Work.

So, now we’ve seen that. Allow me to break it down.

So this project had 3 main things going on. 1) A novel study/text and media analysis. 2) A field school. 3) A movie. I already made a post on the novel study and text analysis, if you’d like to read about that refer to the post below.

The Monster Munch

Now. Let me dive in to the next part of this project. The field school. So in October we went to Seattle and Tacoma for 3 days. We spent our time at the LeMay car museum, we did a few workshops and spent a lot of time touring the MoPOP and then went to the one of the scariest haunted houses in North American. The Georgetown Morgue.

Doing a field school at the very beginning of a unit was a really cool idea because we were immediately immersed in the material and style of the project. I really enjoyed this trio because it was the first in a while that 100% of the class was there and I had a really good time and felt really engaged with the material.

And the final part of the project. The product. The movie. This was an interesting journey to say the least. We started the project string but soon that wasn’t working so we reworked the roles and tried again. That still didn’t totally work. I started as director, that wasn’t working as I didn’t quite fit that very specific role. I ended up being one of the lewd actors as well on the post production team.

The biggest downfall of the production was the whole idea of a movie and assigning each person to a role. When you assign a classmate to a pre-production role for example, the they do their work and it’s done well. Two issues though. We’re all marked individually so it was our personal downfall to always worry about ourselves and we lost that communication and collaboration aspect which is key for a project like this. Also then once your job is done everything gets real fuzzy, we were tripping over each other and boom. Project deadline is here and we don’t have a whole movie .

But that’s all in the past. What can we take away. There are positives. For example this proved our class can get along. Even though we didn’t work in our individual roles perfectly the actual production was enjoyable which hints at a positive class experience moving forward. We also learned the importance of communication and the ability that one needs to know to stay in their lane and their lane only. Many suffered from that including myself. Moving forward hopefully we all remember this project whenever entering a group project.

Also, this project made me realize my love for horror movies and hate for haunted houses. So thank you for that 😂.