My Contribution to the Creative Project #1

For Group 9's creative project, we wanted to teach the class about one our favorite plays. After sharing and discussing our thoughts and opinions, we decided that we would teach the class everything the needed to know about the book/movie/play West Side Story by teaching them through a PowerPoint Presentation.

We assigned the group various tasks to take care of, including information about the author/director of the book/movie/play, actors of the movie, how the story related to Romeo and Juliet and the theater aspects. My job was to give a general outlook of the story to those that were unfamiliar with the story. My job, in other words, is to put a summary of the story onto some slides and provide some pictures. I also gave a bit of a background of the Tony and Maria and a bit about the Sharks and the Jets.

We decided, after a long discussion, to make a presentation on West Side Story

This project seemed easy at first, but it far from it. We had so many topics that we wanted to do and it was very hard to narrow down the choices. Also, although there was Facebook and Google Documents as a form of communication, it was still hard to communicate when someone needed help. Other than that, the other problem was not procrastinating and surprisingly, watching the movie. It was difficult to sit down and do a project that seemed like it would take no time at all and with my dorm's internet problems, buffering the movie was very tedious.

However, by the end of the project, I would say it was worth the hard work and frustration. I learned a lot about West Side Story and about teamwork. In a way, West Side Story was almost like a history lesson; after looking into the making of the book/play/movie a bit deeper using "The Official West Side Story Website" and  Wikipedia, I found that the story was based off real conflicts that were happening at the time, like racism and gangs. By doing this project, I also learned more about the necessity for communication in a group project like this. For our next group project, I would definitely like to make sure that it is easy to get a hold of each other and meet up more often.