Macbeth! I Swear if I Hear That Word One More Time……

Macbeth what a play, what a guy, and what a show of failures and experience. Like Macbeth our class started with high hopes. We all had great visions of a well created student film. Did this happen? No and yes, like any project there was good and bad. The individual scenes we did film looked professional and well done but we didn’t manage to film all the scenes. Even the scenes we did film was a long stretch from the original plot line of Macbeth. All that said it doesn’t mean we did not learn anything.

First I learned why there is HR people which I thought was kinda useless job, I thought wrong! That is where this project fell through was communication and personal management. We had the skills and tools to complete the job we just weren’t organized enough to pull it off. My initial approach to this project was to treat it like a job situation play the good soldier and due what you’re told to do. I was the lead actor so I viewed my role was to just act and for the most part that’s what I did. But the voices of leadership were a little inexperienced and working with a bunch of high school kids as crew members so they were bound to fail. By the end there was too many voices myself included trying to get their opinion across and things just went downhill from there. No one trusted each other to get the job done and no one was getting paid so no one felt the responsibility of the project and it just fell through. I did learn the importance of group work especially in a large project like this. When every you are organizing something you have to be able to see how much people value there time and get them to commit as little time as possible to a project to keep them happy. I also acted so my acting also improved slightly. I could of been more diligent about memorizing my lines but what scene we were going to film was always up in the air and the script was constantly changing. I did have fun acting and would be willing to do it again for another group project. If we were to do a project like this again I would like to take more of a leadership role and try my hand at organizing this group of hooligans.

If you wanna get a feeling of how done people were done with this project you can read my rant review of this project right after we finished.

All that said I learned a lot and enjoyed making this project sometimes…