Overall, this was a really fun project to participate in. It isn’t often that a school project leads you to joking around with friends while getting to decorate and eat cake. A lot of the group was spread out across members so we each played an important role. Everyone had to do some type of preparation for the competition, or lack thereof, and create b-roll of said preparation and edit it together with a pre-interview footage. As well, we each created out own bios to detail both a bit about ourselves and our preparation for the competition. On the night of the competition, we obviously each decorated our cakes. As well, I aided in obtaining close-up shots of everyone’s cakes and setting up the camera for the overall shots of the competition. All the footage had to be edited, of course, so we split up the work for the editing process. Personally, I edited the results video as well as my own bio video. The webpage itself was a team effort with each person helping to edit the pages, with Ben on lead, and with the overall layout being based off sketches that I drew.
Most of the challenges that we encountered with this project were technologically based, such as the audio of the camera being insufficient at times. As well, while our original plan was to take a decorating class together, when we couldn’t find any we each did our own individual preparation on varying levels. However, I think this ultimately aided the project and gave it a more humorous edge. I would definitely do this project again, especially if it involved eating even more cake.
Group Four 