Group Evaluation

Q7 Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?

As a group we feel we have developed our skills hugely since we started the course in September, we are all know confident with the college's camera's and the Apple Macs. Also we feel as a group that not only have our pratical skills improved by our team management skills from taking responsibilty to helping others. However we have come across some problems through the course, one of the major problems was the logging, we still can't quite do it all in one. Another incident was the microphones, we couldn't get a very clear voice with problems like the background noise interupting and also in parts you can hear breathing, but as a group we are still very happy with the outcome of the project.

Also looking back at the prelimanry task we noticed as a group we can't just go into it, and strike lucky. We realized that you have to time manage and sort out jobs for everyone, so that nobody is sitting their twiddling their thumbs.

After the preliminary task, we as a group were set another task, to polish up our skills, where two characters were to exchange an item without talking. An easy to understand plot and a location that was best-suited to this type of story meant we had understood the interpretations of different actions within a sequence. Quick cuts between shots maintained rhythm and pace set by the chosen music. However their were some minor issues about placement of the characters and we have learnt not to do it again.

We discussed the job roles and made it equal, as a group we shared the pre production work. And we feel we have learnt many new academic skills and are all happy with the way each person has worked and the effort we have all put in.