Sebastian Carrillo

Britt Shirk

Humanities

4/5/2019

Kid History Project Reflection

The Kid History Project was a very enjoyable “on hands” assignment. We had to think,

plan, write, and execute all the scenes to make up our movie. Everyone in our group contributed

in some kind of way; weather that be filming, acting, editing, or writing everyone did something.

I myself contributed to the project by filming scenes and sometimes acting when needed. In the

final product, many scenes wouldn’t be there if not for me. You can also watch me act for about

fifteen seconds in the film. I am very proud to have been apart of this project, personally I love

movies. So I find great pleasure in being apart of any movie, weather it be directing or acting.

During the making of the film we all had something to work on, as already stated

everyone had a job. Although we weren’t given a specific job by our teacher, we assigned

ourselves tasks we were able to achieve. For example only one of us in my group was more

skilled in editing; so we had this individual do most of the editing for the film. For someone who

is light on his feet for anything, they would be on “call”. This just means that if something

needed to be done at the moment, they would be asked to do the task. Even though this may

seem like a very “Willy Wonka” type of schedule, it actually worked and helped me be

successful. How does this make me successful, because it was really used to see what certain

individuals were skilled/talented at doing.

 Exhibition was a very competent event. Maybe it was because my class was at the very

end of the hallway, so the visitors had to go through the Senior, Junior, and Sophomore wings to

get to us. Or maybe it was just that there wasn’t as many visitors as we were told there would be,

who nows. As for many of these (similar) events I have been apart of, I wasn't nervous. Honestly

I’m never nervous for these kind of exhibitions because I was taught to always improvise, adapt,

and overcome. Plus the only conversations I had with people at the event, was asking them if

they would like to watch a movie and opening the door for them.

Here is my rant to any future students that will be participating in this project. Do not be

overcome by laziness. Not that you can’t be lazy, because at some point you will feel that way,

just don’t become a sloth. Always have a plan on what to do each day, even if the plan is

humdrum; it is much better than having no idea on what to do. When the green screen goes up (if

supplied by your teacher) be the first one to use it for as many scenes as possible. Or else you

will end up waiting the entire class period to film one scene. Finally try to get yourself involved

as much as you can. The more you engage in your project, the faster it will be to get results and

feedback. If you take all of this into consideration, you just might get somewhere.