For my Senior Project I decided to make a documentary about the Liberty Orchard and the importance of the people who made it. I wanted to highlight the importance of orchard owners because I grew up with my granddad who owned the liberty orchard for 15 years. I started by reaching out to three generations of orchard owners, took footage of the orchard to use in my documentary, Finished my interviews and started editing.
I learned through this whole experience that I procrastinate more than I thought and the people around you influence your motivation. I also learned that when you take yourself away from the people who hold you back you grow, i've grown as a person not only in the aspect of how I perceive and view life but also how far I've come from the beginning of this project.
My high points or successes I would say were my interviews, I had one interview down with my granddad and was waiting on two more interviews and I set up two interviews in one day. I think my low point for sure was time management. I used a lot of my time I could have used for my project on other irrelevant stuff and in doing that I held myself back and I was further behind than ever before. I had a lot of times where I would be in the groove of work and get alot done but I feel like there were also times where I didn't do what was best for me and spent a lot of time trying to please others.
I found all the support to be helpful but I feel Lissa was the most helpful making sure I was staying on task and helping me any step of the way. I didn't meet a ton with my mentor mostly because of my personal struggles with relationships but that's another story, because Madzey taught me how to edit and use Adobe. If it wasn't for Madzey I wouldn't be able to showcase this documentary. He taught me in a way that the information will always stay with me and what I learned is something that I can use forever.
I learned that I don't like writing papers but with the help of Lissa and Ms.Holder I was able to make the revisions I needed to get my paper into the best shape possible. What I also learned is that it's ok to make mistakes as long as you realize you made the mistake and go back to it. There's a metaphor somewhere there like “Life is like a Senior Project paper. It's ok to make mistakes as long as you realize them and go back to them.”
I wasn't prepared for the information I learned when I started this project. Like apples have numbers? But seriously I learned so much about myself, the fact that I let other people influence my decisions and my procrastination and how it affects me in the long run. I wouldn't want to live it again but I wouldn't change a thing. Information is valuable. If I was to give myself advice in the beginning I would listen to what Lissa says. You want to get as much out of the way as you can and don't let people hold you back; those aren't your friends. If I could start over I would start earlier, take it more seriously and not let people hold me back, given more time I would Make it perfect every detail because being so close to the end if I had more time, who knows what I could do.