Group Reflection

I think as a group, most of us worked quite well. I think the group mostly worked quite well together, as we got all the necessary paperwork in on time and managed to meet every deadline we were set. I think the marketing group worked quite well, as the videos were available and easy to find when they were supposed to be, with clear links to the various websites you could watch it. It did appear, however, that many members of our group were posting links themselves instead of just leaving it to the marketing group, which is fine, as if more of us post it, more people are shown via friends lists and things.

Unfortunately, the website that was being made for our website was apparently made, then something went wrong and nobody bothered to fix it, so we had to use a website that Dave made on dreamweaver, a program that we don't have at school, so Dave was the only one that could edit the website. This was a big problem, as the website is now incredibly dull as we had to create all the content and e-mail it to Dave, who, at the best of times isn't really the most helpful person and when contacted seems somewhat hostile to anyone.

This was a bit of a problem, however we decided we would just leave Facebook as our main website, and keep that constantly updated, as we can do it anywhere. We changed director for each episode, so each one has a marginally different feel to it, but each are good for different things. Our organisation, i think was very good, with Tara and I working as Production Manager and Production Assistant respectively. We made sure all the paperwork was done, request forms, budgs, bookings etc. Kirk worked very well to make sure everyone had work to do and spent lots of time organising us to make sure we were all doing something constructive while we were working.

When it came down to actually shooting the episodes, we weren't quite as tight first time. With Kirk directing, as he hadn't planned the shot list or the storyboard, he didn't really know exactly what was happening when, and got a but confused with the storyboard. We managed to work around this, however, but we didn't get quite as much footage as we would have liked to edit. The second time, with Dave directing, we were filming with almost military efficiency, film, stop, next, film, stop etc. This meant that we got all the shots we needed, but didn't get much in the way of extra footage, for any last minute changes. We also did basically one shot for everything, so we didn't have much footage to play with. Whilst Matt was editing the footage together to create the episodes, we were slowly figuring out how we needed to play this game to ensure we got everything we needed in the time we had. When it came to Mike's turn to direct, 3 of us went to shoot one of the flashbacks, while the others went through a rehearsal of the script so they had an idea of what to do before we had to film. I think this worked, because we then got everything we needed in just about enough time.

I think this was bound to happen, first shoot, you make some mistakes but you learn from them so the next time you can improve. We also took the feedback we were given from the class and tried to work around that. I think as a group, most of us worked quite well together, one or two people really didn't pull their proverbial weight though, which i think was really unfair to the rest of us, who were working constantly to ensure we could film and stuff.