Brennan Bordonaro-Overnight Retreat: Initial Thoughts on Our Group Blog

Wow. This has been a really fun and productive 25 hours and I am so hyped up for what’s next. So much has been learned that I haven’t even realized how quickly the time has flown by. The connections made from one topic to another here are really quite eye opening. Some of the things I learned about further through the course of this include; how the program is designed to function and the large amount of similar ideas and subjects people have. I have also learned about how the equipment and actual video work is to be accomplished.

My thinking has expanded by quite a bit throughout the time here, enough so that I am coming up with questions about where to go and who to talk to, that I haven’t even begun to come up with an answer with. My thinking has also expanded about how to incorporate more people into my project. I was unsure on a few of the things that were talked about before, and whether or not we were going to be working in groups was definitely one of them.

The next two and a half months are, in my idea, going to be a very fun few months. Although I feel somewhat ahead in my topic because I came here with it and the rest of my group joined it. Because of this I plan on diving deeper into my topic and going through more research. While doing that I am going to be trying not to take such a drastic step forward that I become unsure of what else and how else to continue before the next meeting.

Although this is the topic that I brought to the table and came here somewhat knowledgeable about it, I still feel like there is so much to take in and so much to incorporate into a project, I see difficulty in that aspect of it. Another difficulty that I expect to see in the upcoming few months is that we really hammered down the idea of getting the whole group onto a much deeper understanding of the topic. We came up with that as a plan but we never came up with the plan of when we think a good mark to reach in terms of understanding is before filming. Filming was also an area I think was somewhat lacking in some regards. We didn’t focus that much on it, but it was introduced.

Overall I would consider this to have been a very helpful 24 hours that expanded my thinking and has allowed me to better understand my topic as well as the functioning of this course.