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This week in e-Comm we were challenged to do another feature story to build on our last and improve our feature filming skills. My group after a few small setback decided to make our story about one of the foreign exchange students this year. We interviewed Lea Weible for our story.

Lea is involved in international club, senior committee, and was on the girls tennis team. So on one of our planning days I wrote the questions and my other team looked for and tried to download some tennis highlights from the year. It was very hard to work around everyone's' schedule to find times to film, but eventually we got time to interview her and film international club during lunch. After finishing filming we started to edit and shortly realized we did not have enough b-roll so the editing process has been hard.

This project was very hard for our group because it seemed like we never had everyone there and we did not communicate very well as a team so it seemed like one person was just doing most of the filming on there own. Because of this and changing our topic a few times we did not seem to have enough time to finish editing our video. But overall I would say this was a great learning experience. I learned it is important to have good communication, prepare well, and always have a good plan B!

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