This project has been a very big learning experience for me, in terms of dealing with other creatives as well as production work. However, this project has taught me how to observe and assess social and political issues in the world, and incorporate them into the stories that I write.

I think that our project was somewhat successful in provoking thought into issues surrounding refugees and government action. However I don’t think we focused enough on refugees, as our characters just seemed to be characters that were screwed over by the government. I do believe however that we explored issues regarding government cover-ups and controversial people in power to a good extent. I think adding in the storyline of the native tribe was a mistake as it took too much of the focus off of the refugee issues that we originally intended to explore. This wasn’t a great choice, especially since we were unable to cast anyone for the tribe so we were decided to not show them on screen, which I think lessened the audience engagement with the story being unable to assess the threat to the characters. That being said, I am happy with the end result that we achieved.

This project itself definitely had a slow start, as it was apparent to me that my group and I weren’t very comfortable with each other, in the sense that we had many ideas but we were reluctant to voice our opinions or commit to any of them. This ultimately led us to divert from our original concept to pursue a ‘cannibal island’ story and allowed us to overlook the original themes that this concept was based around; of refugees and dystopian issues in the media and the government of the current day leading into the future. Fortunately the feedback from our pitch set us back on the right course. I am now happy with where our end project has gone, but I have learned to speak my mind more in times of group uncertainty, and to always refer back to the key themes of the project.