Project Development Issues.

I think that so far out of the different discussions that I have had with other students doing capstones the main thing so far have been around management issues. Time is one thing, with many other classes happening at the same time I have had a hard time trying to keep up with the classes and the project at the same time. Since my video will be shot mostly outside I have a limited amount of good weather time to shoot it. Another thing that I discussed with my fellow classmates is the problem with scope project management. It is hard for us to know exactly what is going to be the reach of the project and how much time should be investing in it this far ahead. With video related stuff we know that at the end we are going to need a lot of time for the post-production phase. This forces us to start very early with pre-production and production.

Interestingly enough I have found that just like myself many students do not have all the skills to complete the project. This is a basic challenge preparing us for future situations. We are not going to know everything but we have to act accordingly and learn to learn what we dont know. I have had to learn so much about extreme sports and adventures filming. I have had to learn things like how to create pulley systems to rig up my camera equipment 100 feet high in the air. Recently I have been learning a lot about videography equipment information. I have realized that I want to spend some money to buy the needed equipment. Although it is very expensive I am looking forward to using this opportunity as an investment and actually get some money back by producing better videos.

Since I will be doing my capstone project with Jacob Hyten team communication has been one of the most basic pillars. For this reason we have created a blog where we can write all kinds of things related to our project. It is like our daily journal about our movie. We have also created a website that has our information and portfolio. Jacob and I work very well together, we trust each other completely and get along fine. This has allowed for a non-stop traffic of information between each other. The idea has been developed slowly in conjunction which makes the whole process stronger and better.