Joey O'Neill

Dec 15th

Writing Samples

Client Project Reflection

I think a lot of us found the client project to be an experience much different from anything we’d done before. There weren’t really any set guidelines on what we’d produce or how we’d produce it. We were able to develop our own projects under the umbrella of the larger project. Obviously, this was a learning experience for all of us, and there were plenty of kinks along the way, but I think for the most part we all performed very well and I’m proud of what we accomplished as a group.

Painting Story Production Notes

Working on the painting to life film was a different experience for me than the genre film. On the genre film, I was much more involved in pre-production, specifically writing the story and developing the concept. This time, because we each wrote our own stories, I had no part in coming up with the one we settled on, so I had to assume other, more technical responsibilities, which were more foreign to me than writing a story. Still, though, it was an interesting experience. Having to think about the individual shots and how they were filmed was new for me, so it was sort of enlightening. I wasn’t under the impression that film-making was easy, per se, but I think I had a different idea of how things were done.

Photo Essay Production Report

Though we took the photographs independently, the experience of the photo essay was quite collaborative in nature. Taking advantage of the technology available to us, we kept in constant communication and worked in innovative ways to come to a consensus as a group. At essentially every step along the way, the entire group had a hand in making the decisions, from the word chosen to how it was interpreted in the pictures themselves.