My group and I thought it would be a little advantage to have four of us rather than three, I think we were very wrong. At first I thought that each of us might have to do less in order to do the same as the other groups, and therefore if we kept up with them we could do better than them. However I have come to realise that 4 people brings 4 different opinions on how the film should be, 4 people’s schedules you have to work around in order to meet up and film. Lately my group and I have been struggling a little as we all have our own lives outside of uni and are finding it hard to all be free for group work at the same time. I don’t know exactly what the other girls do, but I have 3 days of uni classes, netball training, netball matches and 3 jobs that pay my rent to manage, and on top of that I have to find some time to meet up with the girls that also fits in with their schedules. So far it’s been nearly impossible, we have only all found free time together once. That once was weeks ago when we first went to Riverslide Skate Park to film. I loved it when we were all there together, combining as a team and scouting the area. Since then I have gone out with Bella and filmed and Bella has gone out with Dana and filmed. I found it hard to work just with Bella. We couldn’t really make decisions without the input of the other girls.

I also stuffed up. We had hired out equipment as a group, sharing the load around, and we were planning to film our main interview subject as a team. That didn’t work out, plans changed last minute and things got messy. I couldn’t change my timetable to make the new interview date (I was told it had changed to the next day suddenly). Then I went the day after that when I could find time to film some more of the skate park as B-roll footage and perhaps get some side interviews from other skaters. Our communication went awry however and I was misinformed of what I was to bring. I didn’t bring the shotgun mic and the boom pole that I had hired. I was told on arrival that I ‘fucked up’ and was meant to bring it. This didn’t make me happy at all and didn’t start of the filming session on a good note. I felt like I had been fully blamed for something that wasn’t entirely my fault. My group had not communicated with me what we were doing and assumed that I would just know. I hope that both she and I learnt a lesson from this but I get the strong feeling that only I learnt my lesson. And this is where groups start becoming troublesome for me. I’m happy to own up to a mistake I’ve made, but I refuse to take the blame away from others that it belongs too. Since this has occurred I’ve felt a little distant from my group and I’m beginning to worry. Our communication as a whole has not been great and I’v tried my hardest to fix it (I can’t handle bad communication as it makes me unorganized), I’ve hit a rut because I’m not sure how to solve the issue without insulting my group members. I’m not sure who to confide in because I’m not sure anyone will fully understand. I really hope the issue can be resolved so that we can all work together to produce something amazing.