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Making our Fascination Project

 I can say confidently that creating our Fascination Project was one of my favorite college projects I've done. It was a blast to write and film. On top of that it was really cool to take different film strategies into account in order to express ourselves.

At first, I thought this may be a difficult project to get done. However, it was actually pretty smooth sailing. Our group glued together really well, and we all had similar visons for what we wanted to incorporate into the film. The only hard parts were finding the time to meet and then actually limiting the amount of content we put in the film so that we could finish on schedule.


  

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