Now that our group has made progress in regards to what direction we want to go with our project, the question now lies as to how we want to capture content. With a list of equipment we use to film our cooking sessions, including a GH4 camera with Sigma 18-35mm Canon Nifty 50mm Cannon: Wide angle 10- 18mm lenses, studio lights, reflectors, backdrops (maybe), gimbals for steady shots, tripods, and taking advantage of the sound booths in Anderson, the only things we are missing are the ingredients to make food which is solved in a weekly budget of 20 dollars a person. With the amount of equipment we plan on using, important steps need to be taken and repeated. This includes always white balancing before shooting, checking for any problems with equipment we rent, keeping shots in focus and as steady as humanly possible (cue the tripod and gimbal).

This week initiated the schedule for our milestones and invited the group to agree on dates we should have milestones completed. I also compiled a list of every food dish I would want to cook and have the group compete with. The main challenge was finding time to work on the schedule and finding dates we could agree with to have certain things such as shooting and research done by. We have made agreements for the schedule and have all contributed what dates we think work best with out schedules to keep this project efficient.

Luckily, our group has multiple members who work in a job that includes video and editing almost everyday so that will be a huge advantage for us when beginning to create our content. The rest of us who aren’t working that job have a good amount experience using cameras and equipment from past assignments/modules and classes we have been in that required us to accommodate ourselves with them. So with our experience, I believe we all know the necessary equipment we need for production, we have down a spot with proper lighting for our video, and have the ideas down. There’s no specific equipment that we are planning on working with that none of us aren’t familiar with, I believe the only challenge from now on will be getting enough footage to tell a proper story.

For this week’s contribution, as a team we’ve created a general outline for our project, which we have all contributed many new ideas and details towards. We’re working on creating our schedule, which is mostly complete now we just have to lay down the dates so they match up with the timing. We’ve already planned out a date that works for all of us so that we can get a head start on shooting as quickly as possible. The main challenge now will be narrowing down our options for food and getting the ingredients set before we start.

We have begun to make a schedule for the first day of filming for our project. We have also made a large list of equipment and resources that we will need for carrying out the project and filming it. We have decided we are going to check out the best cameras we can from the COJMC. We also have a friend that has a great lighting setup in his apartment that we plan to use for all of our cooking shots. Several of the group members are already very proficient with cameras and editing, so the media part of the project should not be too challenging, the harder part will be telling a good story for our cooking show.

As far as my contributions, I have suggested that we have our main chef Jacob cook breakfast, lunch, dinner, and desert and then we each try to prepare one meal that he will judge. I think this will provide more structure to our show and make for more of story. We have decided to use that format or at least something close to that format for our project. I think we just need more story ideas for the show because like I said before, that is the one thing that won’t come easy, unlike the media production part of the project.

Our plan currently for capturing media is to use a camera of one of our team members that can capture photo and video. It helps a lot to have team members that have strengths in that category because I believe this will be the most important part of the project. We plan on videoing inside and outside so finding good lighting and good audio will be the key. All the equipment we plan on using we are all familiar with and have good experience with. This helps to make the project run smoother when we aren’t having to learn how to use a piece of equipment. The steps we need to follow each team while gathering media are to make sure the lighting reflects what we are doing, make sure the audio is clear and concise and have a wide range of media so we have plenty of options to include in our final project.

This week for our group, we met in class to fill out a schedule and list of items and meeting dates for the rest of the semester. I, myself, came up with a couple different ideas for meals we will be making as well as the plan for making the food. We didn’t face any major challenges this week besides deciding on what meals we wanted to choose to make. We don’t meet to film for a couple of weeks so having a little time to think about what we are going to make will help. In the future, we may decide to change some of our meals to make it easier on the process but I like the ideas we currently have.

For Team Teamy, created a schedule will be extremely important for the success of completing our project. We came together as a team and decided on doing the cooking show starring our very own, Jacob Benson. Since we won’t be relying on any outside interviews or help with our project, it’s solely on us for maintaining a schedule and getting it done in a timely manner.

Even though the cooking show itself will be focused on Jacob’s cooking, it will not be a one man job. We’ll be coming up with a bunch of different ways everyone will be getting involved, maybe even some cameos in the cooking videos. But mostly, we will all be working behind the scenes on the editing, of both videos and our website, to create the best experience for our viewers. It will look almost like a vlog, but will have a television-feel to it and we’ll work to find the best shots and lighting until it looks as professional as possible.

Some challenges will be how we can demonstrate a team aspect to the cooking videos while Jacob is the main face. Another challenge could be finding a good time for everyone and timing in general, we’ll have to be pretty concise with our time and have a good plan going into it, but it is helpful that it’s not super reliant on outside sources so we have some room for error.

Creating a schedule for the project is one of the most important factors that fall under the organization category, next to communication. Before I, Jacob, start the cooking project, we as a group want to decide on what types of shots we want to use while creating content and capturing it on camera. We want to have come to a consensus on every detail we want to do for the project so we know we are all on the same page and there are no surprises or disagreements. This includes video edits, sound tracks, and most of all, location combined with content. This also helps make sure everyone in the group can play a role and it’s not so one-sided. We chose to the cooking project because not only is it entirely more practical than Team Teamy’s other ideas, but it will also be the most fun and entertaining. We wouldn’t have to interview outside sources so we can keep it pretty close to home while making it a very fun environment and come closer together as a team.

The only challenges I can see happening for this project is everyone agreeing on a time, while we put our availability down before the teams were created, things might come up that can conflict with days we want to film. Another challenge would be, what if we can’t agree on what we want to make? Everyone has different tastes and styles so it can be difficult to decide on one idea for a meal.

This week I added more to the cooking idea and presented it in class. I also created polls for our group to vote on what project we should do and we all unanimously chose the cooking idea! It was challenging this week on a slight lack of communication but after discussing our plans amongst ourselves, communication has and will improve. In the future I want a fluctuation of ideas. I am being open minded on this project and in my opinion there are no bad ideas. I want to hear what everyone has to say and then we vote on the best idea.

Creating a general timeline for a project is essential in developing a good project because it allows for our team to know what we want to do before we even do it. For example, by the time we start filming Jacob cooking, we will know what shots we want, what food he will make, and a general script of how he will present the food. This will speed up our content creation process significantly, allowing more time for us to review and possibly make necessary changes. The Project we decided to go with was to have Jacob Benson teach us all how to cook exquisite cuisine in a college students budget. From there we will all try to replicate this dish separately and have Jacob choose the best one. Possible challenges with this project include, having to share a kitchen with Jacob’s roommates and setting up good lighting in a small apartment.

My role this week was to expand on the two ideas I came up with for our team pitch and then to present on my personal favorite idea Husker Cats. I didn’t encounter many challenges this week besides some small anxiety about presenting our group ideas in front of the class. In the future, I would focus more on my breathing during the presentation and communicate with my group about my fear of public speaking so that we can have a contingency plan if I were to get stuck while presenting.

Creating a schedule in any instance to complete a project, task or job is almost essential to stay on top of deadlines and to make sure you are where you want to be at a certain date. With our team creating a schedule, I hope we are able to complete the project as the schedule states and be able to complete the project in a timely manner. We will need to set a set date on when we will be doing the filming of our project because for our project, we plan on getting all the filming done in one day. Our project came down to our option 2 and 3. Option 2 is HuskerCats and option 3 is a cooking show with our chef, Jacob Benson. After a hard and challenging conversation we decided to go with the cooking show due to the opportunity for not only an informative project but also a project that will make you laugh. Challenges we may encounter while working on the project may be getting the right angle for the video, having good audio and light and just having enough information to tell a story. I believe with the various personalities we have on the team, we will be able to create a interesting story people actually want to watch.

This week for our project I presented in class on the topic, voted in a poll on which group project we wanted to do and discussed in our group chat on what project we wanted to do. A challenge I encountered this week was simply just the tough decision on choosing the topic. Something we may do different in the future may include only choosing one good idea to pitch so the class essentially picks for us.

This semester I am focusing on making my team better by communicating effectively and providing quality feedback.

Good teams exhibit good communication skills as well as good work ethic. These two key elements create an unstoppable force. If one team member requests additional help, the other team members should be able to offer that help – through good communication. A good team is as strong as their “weakest” member. Good work ethic ensures that a team can create a successful project through the teams common goal – contributing to create something larger by breaking down aspects of the project and assigning/delegating roles to members. This is accomplished by yet again good communication and a teams good work ethic.

What does NOT help a team is poor communication. That is the root issue of any group. If a team member lacks the ability to relay to their fellow members that they are busy, struggling with an aspect of the project, or any other reason to be unable to finish their assigned task, this must be communicated so that other team members can then redistribute delegate the task to other members.

Additionally, this week I mainly focused on coming up with new ideas because we as a group decided against our original idea of looking deeper at the humane society. The two ideas I came up with were to one, spotlight huskervision student interns and two, create a story on Husker Cats and the people who take car of them. I didn’t face many challenges this week because my group members enjoyed my ideas and were able to come up with the final idea once I got stuck trying to think of a third. In the future, I would communicate better with my team prior to our meeting so that we could all have more story ideas coming into class.

A main part of our group succeeding in this project is being able to know that we can all express our ideas and communicate our concerns to the rest of the group. The more time I have spent with my group, the more I have been able to express my ideas because I know everyone much better in my group. We have been able to bounce ideas off of each other and criticize each others ideas in a respectful and light-hearted manner. A major reason why we can do this is because we are all very similar people and we have very similar styles of communication.

We had a few very good ideas for our project. The first idea is following the life of a Husker Vision student. Husker Vision controls the big boards at all the Nebraska athletic events and produces video content for the athletic department. The second idea was researching the Husker Cats organization, which controls the population of ferrel cats on the University of Nebraska Lincoln campus. The third idea was to do a project about one of our member Jacob’s talent for cooking. I contributed several ideas about events that we could follow a Husker Vision student at. A wrestling meet would be a good event to do because we would have a lot more lenience since it is not as high profile event as something like basketball.