Thinking+Interdependently

**Thinking Interdependently** media type="custom" key="4787951" **Above is the result of my group's video project for the digital story unit. Winston, David, Bubba, and I had decided to make a video about raising awareness of eutrophication. We decided to do this because to us, this was an original idea, as so many groups were doing topics concerning water conservation, water cleaning, water scarcity, etc.; to us, these were boring topics. So together, we came up with the topic regarding the disappearance of lakes due to pollution.

This project could not have been completed without the four of us working together and contributing. There was just so much data to collect and sort, and then there was the editing and technical work. We split the work up accordingly: I drew up the storyboard and script, David was our artistic director and found pictures and helped make sure our video looked snazzy, Winston was the technical director and did a great job on editing and making the whole video together, and Bubba was our all-around guy, who came in whenever help was needed (he found the songs and helped compile the sources). Despite our specified roles, however, we each contributed to the ideas and the overall project. This project taught me a lot about working with others; I usually am an independent worker, but getting together with others, I discovered how working together sped everything up and my group members contributed ideas that I would never have thought of by myself. Although at times the video project became very frustrating, at the end we got it together and produced a satisfactory video.**