I need to rant.

"Alex Murel" (alexandermurel) 11/30/2013 at 19:32 • Filed to: Rants

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I hate group work. I hate group work even more when my partners are assigned to me. Needless to say my project due tomorrow is doing its best to ruin my otherwise perfect Thanksgiving break.

At the beginning of the semester we were assigned a film project in my French course and it was going to be awesome. We just got told to make a 20 minute film on whatever the hell we wanted, comedy, drama, documentary, whatever. We had large groups that were, for the most part picked by us, but then everybody started complaining that that was too much work and the teacher caved. Then we had to make 5 minute miniature documentaries on some campus tradition to introduce hypothetical foreign students to our school. Oh, and we got stuck with smaller groups chosen for us.

Whatever, fuck it, how hard can it be? I work for a film production company and I have access (and knowledge) to cameras and equipment worth multiple tens of thousands of dollars. I also have access to restricted areas during events. Fucking easy. I get all my film and lay it all out so I just have to drop in my partners video bits once I get those.

I then repeatedly offered to to help them film and record their speaking parts but no one took me up on my offer, saying that they didn't want to take up my time and that they knew what they were doing.

Fast forward to this week. I wanted to get their pieces before went on break and didnt have internet access, but apparently that was too much to ask. I got one of them minutes after I left and the other two yesterday, so now I have one night to put it together before its due tomorrow morning. Whatever, thats why I put my parts together earlier. I wasnt too mad about that.

Then I opened the the files and looked at them.

Filmed with what would appear to be a Yukon Gold potato and then horrendously backlight.

Filmed vertically with the front facing camera of a goddamn iPhone.

Not actually filmed at all....

Fuck people.

Thanks for listening.

His Stigness > Alex Murel 11/30/2013 at 19:40

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Wow. Just wow. I've done my share of German class film projects, but none were this bad, we always finished as a group at the last minute.
You should go to your teacher and tell him your situation, which is that your partners are lazy asses. And use your footage to prove that you did all the work and the easy part you gave to them amounted to nothing.

Arch Duke Maxyenko, Shit Talk Extraordinaire > Alex Murel 11/30/2013 at 19:46

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a little cockeyed, one up one down

Alex Murel > His Stigness 11/30/2013 at 20:09

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Oh yeah, at the very least I'm going to explain why it looks like a pile of shit.

Stef Schrader > Alex Murel 12/02/2013 at 01:01

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My inner troll says to overlay "didn't do lol" guy's piece with a sheep.

Problem solved!

(I hate group work, too. The feels. All the feels. All the feels of WHY AM I THE ONE WHO'S UP 'TIL 4 AM WIPING YOUR BOTTOMS FOR YOU RAGE.)