For this whole project, I learned a lot and had lots of fun in group working. We all tried our best to working on our group project. We discussed a lot together as a group and working together. When someone in our group had some troubles, other group members would help he/she out. For this project, I was charging to shoot the photo and videos for our group. I brought my own camera and took photos when our group stayed together. I also set my camera in a nice angle and shot the whole competition videos. The other thing I did was to edit the video that we sat together and watched the “Nailed it”. For this project, we faced lots of problems and solved it together. For instance, we found that our audio for the competition video is not recorded very well, and the luckiest thing is that we had two cameras shot the video, so that we had another video that we could use for our website. From this group project, I learned some new skills, like how to decorating cakes. When I was decorating cakes, I learned to be more patient on it and be more creative!

In this week, our website is almost done, and we don’t have so many things to do. The only few things that need to be done is that we need to finish building our website and practice together for the final presentation. When we built our WIX website, we also faced some problems, for example, WIX is not allowed us to upload very long videos, so we found a solution is to upload our videos into YouTube and then we could put these videos into our website. Also, some groups had the practice presentation during class, and our group will go next week. Before this week’s class, we had a small discussion together. We divided works to every group member, and we practice the presentation together. For the presentation part, I am charging my introduction part and the voting part. I think that this week’s class helped me a lot. I learned a lot when other groups were presenting.  It was beneficial for us to prepare our presentation. Next week, we will have our practice presentation in class, and I think it will help our final presentation a lot. Also, we will have our final presentation on next Monday.

In this week, we split our whole work to every group member. I wrote my biography paragraph, select some beautiful photo that I took for our group during this semester, and edited a video called ‘Nailed it.’ This video was about our preparation for the competition; we sat together and watched a YouTube video called “Nailed it.” During that time, we used an iPad to record it, and we got lots of footage for it. I chose some footage with clear sound and excellent lighting, and I cut it into about 1 minute. The length of this video could allow the audience not to waste too much time and quickly understand what we were doing together for the competition. Also, we had a group meeting this week. The reason for the meeting is for us to edit our website together. However, WIX didn’t allow two people to edit the website at the same time. Therefore, we upload our biography paragraph and head-shot into the website in a different time, and Ben will spend more time on editing website. We also planned to have a meeting before Wednesday’s Practice presentation, so that we could practice a little bit before the practice presentation.

In this week, we began to build our website and upload everything into our Box. I shot many photos and videos last week, and I planned to upload these things into Box this week. We had done the most challenging job for our project last week. We interviewed the final competition, and we had the final competition last Tuesday. We had a pretty fun competition last week. For these two activities, we recorded plenty of footage, and these footage could be a big help for our website. For the next couple of weeks, our website will be the most important thing for us to figure out. Fortunately, we had prepared everything we should have for the website. We had our videos, photos, introduction and explanation of our project. Also, we need to edit our footage and collected it into 30 minutes’ videos. There is one thing left is that we need to take our head-shot on the website. For the website, we need to build the layout and put all the videos into the website. All in all, I think our group did an excellent job last week, and I believe we will do better in the future!

This week, we did lots of things together. On this Monday, we took an interview for each one and had a small talk about Tuesday’s competition. We shot lots of photos and videos that night and watch a fun video about decorating cakes. On this Tuesday, we had the final competition together. We brought our cakes and bought all the materials that we would be used. My friend helped me to make my cakes last weekend so that I could bring my cake to the competition. Also, I went to Walmart to buy all the materials that I was going to use and bought some fruits for decorating. Our competition’s name was ‘Failed it,’ and the theme of this competition was spring. Strawberry and blueberry were the main materials of my cakes, and I used vanilla frosting. The competition was going well; we had lots of footages and photos of this competition. After the competition, we tasted everyone’s cake and gave some feedback to each person. We had done a big thing this week, and the next thing we need to care about is the website. We still have some weeks left, and I believe we could do it on time.

In this week, we didn’t do so many things together as a group. We had our spring break this week, and I really got a good time to relax and started to think about our final competition in this week. In this week, we didn’t meet outside of the class, because our preliminary work has been accomplished. After this week, we need to start to figure out the time and the place of the final competition. I can’t wait to start the final competition. I think it will be super fun to shoot the whole competition. During the spring break, I start to think about some details of the shooting; Do we need to find a nice place to put the camera so that it could be able to shoot all of us in one time or Could we just find a friend to help us record the whole process. The other problem that we will face is the reception when we are recording. We need to find a nice microphone for everyone because we need to make sure everyone’s voices could be recorded. All in all, I extremely expect for the final competition, and I believe it will be so fun! 

In this week, we had the last presentation day for the Interactive project. We didn’t do so many things as a group due to the spring break. During the spring break, we might not work for the group project, because most of us will leave Lincoln and take a trip. After spring break, we will continue working as a group and do the practice competition as soon as possible. After that, we will complete our final competition and start working on the website. For the practice and final competition, I will take photos for everyone and these photos could be used in the introduction of the website. We are also going to shoot some footage during the two competition. In addition, we will figure out the more specific role of everyone when we begin to build our own website. During the spring break, my friend will bake her own cake. I am going to watch when she is baking and learn more about decorating cakes from her. I believe that I will be more professional after I watch it, and I might win in the final competition. I am really looking forward to this final competition, I believe it will be fun!

In this week, we didn’t do so much work together. We finished the preliminary content submission and turned it into Canvas. For the preliminary content assignment, we divided some part to each group members, I did the project overview and the member preparation of my part last week. This week, we put all the information and content together in the google docs that we created together in last week, and someone turned it into Canvas.
For next week, the most important thing that we need to do is to figure out when we could do the practice competition together. Also, we need to do some preparation for the final competition. We need to figure out what material we will buy for the final competition, what time are available for all of us, and where we can do this competition together in the next three weeks. We need to finish this quickly so that we will have enough time to edit these videos and footages. If we finished these steps early, we could also leave more time for us to build our website. During the spring break, we will do more things for our group project and hope everything will be ok.

This week, we had a group discussion during class. We discussed preliminary content submission. We created a google doc and divided some parts to each person. I was working on our project overview and what we prepared for the project. For the project overview part, I needed to explain what is our project, what we learn from this project and the plan of our project. We planned to complete the preliminary content submission by Sunday night so that we would have one more day to edit it. Also, if someone was not able to finish it on time, we would have enough time to complete it.

Next week, we are going to begin the website layout, and start to edit all the footages. We may have a practice competition next week and we need to do some preparation for it.  In this week, we create a website in WIX.com for our project, and we are going to start to add more information, videos, and photos on it after the layout of the website is done. We still have more work to do for the project. Overall, we did a nice job this week, and we are going to do more works on our project next week.

This week, we are working on our own part. Some of the people in our group watch YouTube videos to learn how to decorate cakes, some learn from friends. Last week, I learned how to decorate cakes from my friends and shot some footage for that. In this week, I edited more on these footage and edited these scripts into a complete video. We didn’t meet in this week because of the horrible weather, but we had some discussion on GroupMe. We are going to create a box folder for us to share the videos that we shot individually, and the box folder will help us to edit these videos more easily.
For next week, we are planning to have a practice competition for decorating cakes. For the practice cake decorating session, we will find an empty room for us but we will not buy a real cake. It is because the practice cake decorating session is to let us practice how to set our camera and go through all the stuff. This practice cake decorating session could help us to be more confident when we have a final real competition. All in all, our group project is progressing well now and hope so in the future.