Always doing all the work..

College Life
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<p>Is anyone the kind of person that ends up doing almost all the work for a group project? </p>

<p>I'm in an intro to video production class, and we have 5 person groups. For our first project, i shot, edited, acted, and did all the sound mixing. One member came to set once and ended up acting for 10 minutes, one (who was in charge of lighting) came to set once and didn't do anything. The two that did come to set each of our 3 shoots had to act, and one of them wrote the script (based off of my idea). The people who never came were always "too busy" or something like that.</p>

<p>The project turned out well, because while I'm not the best at shooting, i make up for that in editing and the sound turned out really well.</p>

<p>For this project we had our meeting to plan everything out, and the girl who came to one shoot said she couldn't make it and the other girl who said she would be there never showed up. She also ignored all texts and emails for 3 days afterward, then told us she got sick. The remaining members said that I shouldn't have to do as much work as I did on the last one, but I have been. </p>

<p>The other 2 guys are doing a fair share of stuff this time around, but one of them couldn't make it yesterday because he went to a concert, so I had to do all of his stuff while doing mine as well. </p>

<p>It really just ****es me off that the girls who don't show up and say they are too busy are going to get the same grade as me. If i left the project to them they would never get finished. This project is 25% of our grade so it's kind of a big deal. I love doing what I do well, which is editing and visual stuff and a little sound, but when someone doesn't show up that means you have to do their job on top of yours. </p>

<p>We are supposed to film tonight. No one has heard from the one girl. The other girl said she can make it late, but that she doesn't know how she's gonna get there because she lost the keys to her car.</p>

<p>It's frustrating, but ill end this rant. Does anyone have similar experiences?</p>

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<p>Yep, it happened to me through highschool and again in college.</p>

<p>There are those who actually help and do the work while there are others who are, in essense, moochers.</p>

<p>I bet your prof will know who did the work and who didn’t. :)</p>

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<p>Does your instructor have a policy about group work? I would email him/her and tell them what’s going on. I know some instructors work in a feedback form to the group project that essentially lets group members give feedback on each other’s work in the group, then they adjust individual grades accordingly.</p>

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<p>Do you run credits at the end of your video?</p>

<p>Problem solved.</p>

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<p>Happened to me all throughout high school. Still happening Sophomore year of college. Just recently I had a group financial report due for a business class. We split up the work five ways with three simple instructions: research your specific question, write a page and a half double-spaced, send it to me as an email attachment so I could put all the parts together. Simple, right?</p>

<p>Apparently not.</p>

<p>I had two of them send me a page and a half single-paced. Two. And several of the parts were so horribly written that it was plainly obvious they put little to no effort into them at all. I mean, I understand having a few typos (though they should really iron those out before sending it be added to the final draft), but the general writing itself was just terrible for a couple of the parts, like they’d slapped it together in five minutes or less. </p>

<p>I ended up having to rewrite the entire paper myself after several failed attempts at getting to them edit their individual pieces. It was a nightmare. And there’s a second, harder part of the project coming up…</p>