Procrastination leads to a lot of frustration.

Don’t procrastinate. It’s a line we’ve all be told most of our educational careers. While most of us probably have ignored this advice and gotten away with it in the past, the importance of doing things in a timely manner becomes essentially as a communication student in college.

            As a project for my digital media class we were asked to film an “event” using a variety of shots and angles. The total time for the video was supposed to be between 60-90 seconds. Seems like this should take a total of 10 minutes to complete.

            I’m sure I wasn’t the only person to be wrong about this but boy was I ever. Instead of allowing myself the plenty of time for mistakes and redo’s I boxed myself into a very small area of time to complete my project.

            Working under pressure and time constraints can only create perfect work for experts. And an expert I definitely am not.

            If I had allowed myself more time to complete the project I think I could have made a video I could have been really proud of. Instead I turned out something mediocre that shows exactly how much effort I put into it.

            So the moral of the story is please, please don’t wait till the last second to finish your work. In the world of communications shooting video or interviewing for a story aren’t things you can do at 2 AM when you realized you still haven’t done it yet.

You can check out my project and tell me what you think!