Thursday, 24 December 2009

Teamwork Experiences

During our preliminary video I learnt a lot about how a team should work together and that next time we should improve what we do together.
When coming up with ideas about what the film storyboard should be me, Nadine and Deanna came up with a few ideas together and I found that there wasn't any problems with communication at first. When it came to allocating whats jobs we should do, there was a problem as Deanna didn't want to act. I found this unfair that she was allowed to film with out any proper discussion, but in able to work together well, we let her film. Nadine was therefore allocated the part of the teacher and I was the rebellious student.
I realised that within a group everything should really be discussed properly, because in the end to be able to work together and be sociable about it, everyone should be happy with what they're doing during an assignment, otherwise problems arrise and arguments happen. This is one of the things we need to improve on.
When filming we didn't have much of a plan, apart from a script, but when we actually started acting and filming it all clicked in to place as we did try and work together. Nadine set up the desk where we were going to act and I helped, the only problems we had were that we could have been more serious, but seeing as this was a practise it was ok, next time during our coursework film we will do better. I think overall the filming went well, with a few hiccups, but we got through them.
When it came to editing our film our team weren't as co-ordinated, during the lessons only me and Nadine helped out, whereas Deanna either wasn't there or didn't come to us to help. It was no problem for us as we were able to manage without her, it just means she wont get as many marks if she carries on like this, but we spoke to her and tried to sort it out. We thought that as she did the filming we would let her off that time.
For our coursework film, as we're in the same group again, we will need to have proper discussions all together and if any of us are not in a lesson, we will need to contact that person. We are going to have to be more organised and work together much better, meaning no one should be doing everything or nothing.
I think that our teamwork experience was one to learn from and by improving, we will be able to get a decent film made and get good marks.

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