WORKING WITH THE GROUP

Group assignments. As a university student, you either learn to dread these or become lucky enough to be placed in a group made up of motivated and talented people. In my case, it was the latter. Jamie, Jonah and Ziggy were an absolute pleasure to work with. From the beginning, we all listened to each others thoughts and bounced off each others ideas and concepts. No one brought the team down in any way and I am really pleased with how well we will worked together. Although Ziggy didn’t become an official member of our group, it was generous of him to still give up his time to help us film and then later, colour grade. The group was basically broken up into the content producers being Jonah, Ziggy and I and then the editor becoming Jamie. From the get go, Jamie took a majority of control over this assignment with the idea of a live session being his to begin with. Basically, the other members and I were there to film Jamie and his band and then Jamie wanted to have creative control over what was shown to the audience. This would also be because he plans to post the live-session as a form of advertisement in the future.

I was completely happy to let Jamie take the reigns on the editing as I knew he had a vision that he wanted to achieve, however, I wish I could have maybe helped contribute a little more. Although I’m no expert editor, I felt a bit bad at times because I didn’t want Jamie to be overloaded with work and feel like no one was helping him out. This, however, was only a minor personal issue and I kept in contact with Jamie throughout the post-production process to ensure he knew I could help out if needed.

To be a good collaborator is to ultimately ensure you are communicating effectively and efficiently with your fellow members. Everyone needs to be on the same stage and be aware of the duties they have towards contributing to the group. You need to be reliable and motivated to perform to the best of your abilities. I was lucky enough to be in a group where all members did their best to create a piece of work that we could all be proud of.