There isn’t much to say that hasn’t been said in my previous post about collaboration but in a nutshell here it is. As a group we made sure that everything was decided evenly. We tended to work in stages and everyone had a job for that stage, even if they weren’t the same job, classic example: everyone else was writing scripts, whilst I was editing scripts; everyone was buys sourcing talent, whilst I was organising and writing up a call sheet. There were definitely times where people strengths and weaknesses showed, like in any other situation. The creative writers were in their element when writing the scripts and the media students generally took the back seat to learn. Then when it came to the production side of things the media students were in their element and the creative writers took the back seat to learn.

If you’ve ever heard of the phrase too many cooks you understand thins paragraph. There were sometimes I felt there was too much input from people; for instance, it took us a long time to decide on our initial idea because everyone was so keen to throw in their ideas that it was hard to move on from. Other clashes we had were just small things, people preferring to do it a certain way, whether it was the movement of the camera or the way that the scripts were written up. But if the only problems that we had was that everyone wanted to contribute too much then I think we did pretty well as a team.

As I’ve mentioned before on this blog, one of the valuable lessons I’m learning is that, in order to make things run smoother and more efficiently, sometimes you have to learn to bite your tongue and get on with the task at hand, otherwise you’ll be going around in circles all day discussing what slogan a character should have on their T-shirt.

I have to say, the same thing goes for participation, we all understood that we had separate lives to live, work was a major thing we had to work around but we all did extremely well to make it to meetings and the shoots when we could. After our consult on Monday we had our own separate meeting, which everyone attended as much as they could. We had full days of shooting and editing that people gave up their weekends for. There is no stand out from this group, because we were all on the same page as to what we needed to get done. I’d like to commend my teammates: Niamh, Trent, Darcy, Nat and Jen for an excellent effort and a great result.