Over the course of the project so far there have been a lot of minor issues between the class. At the beginning when we were working as one large group we had a lot of disagreements so we decided to split into two groups, and although we seem to have been working a lot better this way there are still some issues.
My role in the groups as part of the marketing team has involved much online work, updating social networking sites such as; twitter, facebook, myspace and flickr. I think that this has helped in generating interest into the show from audiences, although at some points I feel that there was not a lot of information that I could update as I was in most places just repeating the same information.
I also helped in the role of music with Sam, I posted updates on all the social networking sites about finding unsigned bands to have their music featured in the show, this was very successful, I got a lot of replies, many bands sent me and Sam links to their music pages and MP3’s to download. Although Sam was the one to choose the music for the show, I helped in the decision of the song for the opening sequence, and after Sam and I had chosen I emailed the band and asked for permission to use the song and asked for a copy of the song in MP3. I think this went very well as they let us use the song, and I think that the emails that I sent the band were good, as they were professional but not too professional as they are teenagers our age and I thought that they would respond better to people there age like us.
I have also drawn the storyboards for the 2nd episode, this was outside of my role, but I enjoy drawing and the group obviously thought that I would be good at it so I worked with Ash who came up with a shot list and I had to draw each of the shots. I think me and Ash are doing a good job of this so far, we have communicated a lot about the shots talking each through so the drawings would be exactly what he thought they should look like. Although I have not finished them yet as Ash hasn’t yet emailed me the last few of the shots. I really enjoyed doing this task as I felt as felt that the social networking sites was not taking up enough of my time and effort, as it doesn’t take long to update the sites and then I don’t have anything else to do, I also feel that this has now given me more of an insight into the show, as with the first episode I didn’t really have any involvement with the actual show.
I think that with all the tasks I have done so far I have done quite we, although at sometimes I could have done a bit more updating of the social networking sites, but I struggled with the updates because no one really told me information that should be up their. I future I am going to try and get more involved in things like the storyboarding as it gives me something more productive to do during the times between social updates.
The group’s main problems so far are the fact that a few of the members disagree on things, such as last week there was a lot of disagreement when Dave tried to take over and change the script, the only reason this caused disagreements is because he didn’t talk through the dicition before hand, but after a long discussion we all agreed to let Dave have more input on the script. It has been the same with all other problems we work through them by talking it through and making a comprimise. I think that our group has worked really well so far, the only things that I think need improving on for the future and the rest of this project is people need to voice their opinions better and make sure that everyone is happy with everything before making decisions, also I feel that sometimes people do not have a lot to do, I pointed out to the group in a team meeting last week that I felt that I did not have enough jobs to do, and since then I have both been involved a lot more.
