Whilst working on this group project it seemed hard to string all the ideas into one cohesive story. Once I thought we were all on the same page but then, after we kept talking, we still had very different ideas of how the project would go down. This was the hardest when we were trying to come up with the story arcs and relationships between the 5 character in order to create some conflict. In my original concept pitch I brought in the idea of 5 characters and a love triangle type idea that connected all the characters together with their separate traits. Since the original pitch some of the characters have changed but the concept would still work. So after two weeks of running through different ideas and playing with different concepts I suggested that we should try again with this Love triangle type idea, only this time, I had a secret weapon! A white board!

Being able to draw out the character relationships on the white board helped me explain the general idea to the rest of the group members on how each relationship would work. Who loves who and who hates who. After we had the skeletal structure that I had conceptualised then the group immediately understood where I was going with it and we all set out to fleshing the characters relationships out. Soon everyone was putting ideas on the board. This diagram definitely helped get everyone on to the same page and I think that it made life so much easier being able to see the relationship lines visibly.

Important lesson learned: when working on a group project, seek visual aids to help explain your concepts.

This was the board at the end of the day, once we had all worked on it together. It is fair to say that at the end of the day we were all really excited, seeing the potential for our project project.

This picture was then created digitally so that we could all keep on the same page as to any changes that we might need to make in the future.