Thursday, September 20, 2012

Qvestions #1 and #2

Part 1
1)You've worked on a group film and on your own. In which situation are you most comfortable - group or solo? Which do you work best in?
I liked the solo work better, just because it was sort of a neutral between being completely alone and collaborating. People were always there if I needed opinions but I was able to have the solitude when I needed it.

2)What did you learn that you expected to learn?
I learned how to be genuinely productive in a small amount of time. I'm usually horrible under pressure, but with the Big Week project it was more relaxed than anxious.
3)What did you learn that you didn't expect to learn?
There wasn't much that I really expected out of Big Week, but as with most school projects, I expected to improve on my writing. But I didn't, not really. It was basically me just vomitting words onto the screen, and I realized that a good story is the first priority and format and other such rules come second.
4)What didn't you learn that you expected to learn?
As I said before, I didn't have many expectations of Big Week, therefore I was not disappointed in any way. Maybe one thing is that I thought I would learn how to do something from other peoples' projects, but it's not like I that was the only thing I was looking forward to.
5)Praise your amazing achievement and explain your brilliant plan for pulling it off.The play that I wrote was simply a heartbreaking work of pure and unadulterated genius. It explores the relationship between mother and child, as well as between two siblings in such a way that it ponders the value of life itself. If any other play has the ability to affect you in such a way as mine does, then that playwright must be Sir William Shakespeare himself.

Part 2
1) How much time did you spend working?
I would say that I spent a good 90% of each class working, not counting the majority of seventh period and the one Thursday that I was sick. So that means about six hours of real work plus about three hours on Thursday, for a grand total of nine hours.
2)How much time did you spend thinking about the work - sort of sitting there and staring at it, or listening to it over and over again, etc.?
Every waking moment of that entire week. On Wednesday, there were some moments when I just left my laptop and walked around, and seeing everybody being productive gave me inspiration.
3)How much time did you spend doing other stuff that seems like work to you that make you think you're working but you're not?
Maybe about an hour out of that entire week. I find that I don't benefit from procrastinating with things that don't pertain to my work at all. I'd rather just go for a walk around my own mind so that I can keep track of where I am.
4)How much time did you spend socializing?
Well, not counting the majority of seventh period, I only spent a little bit of time talking to people. Sometimes I had to ask people questions, but I tried to keep the dilly-dallying to a minimum. Although, on Tuesday, we in the hallway did have a small break.
5)How did you use your community?
I asked the people around me quite a few questions, especially on the first day. I would ask anybody who was listening, "How long should a play be?", "Am I supposed to italicize this?", "Is it weird that I'm referring to Mother as 'Mother?'", etc.
6)Rip apart your awful project and how did such a disaster happen?
The play that I wrote was dreadful, just dreadful. If every playwright that ever lived came back from the grave, each and every one of them would punch me in the face. It represented such an unrealistic connection between human beings and the last scene was like something straight out of The Exorcist.
7)You've completed a step on your path. What is your next step?
I'm going to work on it a little bit, and maybe I can have my play performed.

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