Thursday 21st Jan

Today we started with a class discussion about issues we had within the group. I think it was realyl aimed at our group more than the other as we all knew we had some problems occuring within the groups. I believe our main problem was that the director had taken control and was just doing what he wanted, ignoring us and telling people what to do. This resulted in lots of comfusion as when we tried to organise something, he then didn't register it as he wasn't listening to us. I had been talking to a few members of our group and we were getting really concerned about what we were going to do, because the way the director had just started to do his own thing was really upsetting us. I e-mailed David O'Neill, a director i've worked with, to ask if he had any thoughts on how i could resolve the issue and keep the project on track.

He suggested that we sit down, and decide what it is we want to get from this project and what we feel we need to do to achieve it, rather than go in all guns blazing and see who can shout for longer. I think this was really good advice, because when we all sat around the tables and talked through our concerns, we got to work much faster. I think it is much easier to work at Long Road than Coleridge, because we can move the tables together and use our laptops to work close to each other, so we can discuss the things as we progress. At Coleridge, however, we have to share computers and are spread out across the room so it is harder to work and have discussions.