Enigma vs. Prolific

When someone says “branding”, the common thought that comes to mind is the physical type of branding you would do with a hot poker. Yet for our class, it meant something else: the creation of a production company.

First, we were divided into two separate units; we were on our own, yet ultimately together. The process took place over approximately two weeks. We needed positions, a name, company colors, a mission statement, a vision statement, a website, and a presentation for all the above. The positions were figured out on the first day, however the search for the rest bore us no fruit. We were off to a slow start, indeed. Though it seemed that the presentation date was so far away, we knew all too well how little time we truly had. This must have hit home as, the next day, we finally got the company colors settled, and our company name with it: we would be Enigma Productions. We had also decided on who would write the mission and vision statements and who was to be in charge of the website.

Things seemed to be going considerably well; that should have been enough to foreshadow the trouble to come. Our group had been lucky to gain people with strong personalities and a wealth of ideas, yet we were only creating one production company and so only limited ideas could be chosen. For several days after, our group was at heads, causing some unrest. I made my choices and with them I stayed strong, waiting uneasily for this tempest to pass. However we handled the situation, whatever the out come might have been, we banded together to rescue Enigma from the destruction we ourselves had wrought. The rest of the time was simply structured chaos as we rushed to pick up the pieces. We had burned much in our conflicts, yet from the ashes of our destruction, like a newborn phoenix, rose Enigma Productions.

The eight of October arrived, and from 7 to 9 am, we tied up last minute threads. We were weary, yet we stood strong; we gave it all our best. In the end, we did not win, but standing away from the compulsion of the moment, I remember an old saying: “It’s not whether you win or you lose. It’s about how you played the game.” And so fifteen simple words sum up these weeks: we had good times and bad, yet we all played with our hearts and souls and in the end, that’s what really counts.

Love and other sports like it,

Faye Night