Finals are nearly over. I need a space to vent where no one I know will ever read this.
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One of my finals is the end of this semester-long group project, and I never liked group projects. I begrudgingly went along with it, because it is a class, after all. I drew the short straw in hindsight, because my two other group members have been the worst. They constantly criticize every idea or comment I have, they failed to actually communicate with me more than half of the semester. I hate them. We have been required to update the professor on our project weekly, each of us has to write our own post and explain what we did for the week, future plans, etc.
I will own up that some of my weeks have been less productive than others. I don't want to get into the details of the project, but at the end we make a zine. I said from the start I would do five keyshots for this political message. My other group member would do the same thing with photography, and the other would write a commentary on our piece. We have had eleven weeks to do this, and along the way I put out some thumbnails and some WIP's on my illustrations. My other group members wrote on their posts about how they plan to do their work.
The entire semester, for ten weeks their posts have more or less "I plan to do this," and they don't actually have anything to show for it. Much later on, one of them asked me to do "scenes" for her photos. She said she wanted me to do them so that she could insert her photos of a model into them, and I agreed to do this. She also said I should be the model, and I also agreed to this. I spend the next three weeks doing some more keyshots for her, and trying to contact her on when she wants to do the shoot. She never answers the texts or emails, so I don't know what to do with that. I bring her the "scenes" she asked for, and then she gets pissed off. I did keyshots, scenes, what she wanted was "backgrounds" and at no point during those three weeks did she ever make any comment about the WIP's I sent her. Oh, and she already found a different model and did these shots without me.
Now, it's time to turn in what we have done up to this point. I am tired of dealing with them, and I want it to be over. I already did fivebackgrounds for her, all in one week because I am very pressed for time. They look awful, but again, I really did not have a lot of time to work on this. I come into class, and the two group members are grilling me in front of the professor saying I have not been a good group member, that I have not been keeping up with them. I looked at what they turned in and what I turned in. We have one week left at this point, so we're all seeing what we each have to assemble. The one who was going to go into this deep social commentary on our politics wrote a whopping three paragraphs. The other did a collage, in that it was basically six white pages with some photoshop of oddly stretched and warped photos. It's so bare and pathetic, I don't doubt she slapped it together the day before.
They had ten fucking weeks, and they wrote three paragraphs and did a child's collage. I did over a dozen illustrations with them browbeating me the entire way. I am still looking at what they did, and I am still thinking "What the fuck gives you the right to say I was slacking off?" I tried reaching out to them, asking what is going on, and how can I help in spite of my 'bitch alert' blowing fuses. I fucking hate group projects, and professor tells me to get used to it. In the real world, every studio job is just one big group project. At least I only have to deal with them for one more week.
I am livid.