Group Meetings - Miss Georgiou

The purpose of group meetings is to get every one together and discuss any more ideas on the thriller sequence. Meetings take place so that each individual member can talk about any other ideas they have and elaborate on them and explain what they mean to the rest of the group. This helps the group to have a better understanding on what ideas could take place and how we would go about doing them. The meetings also allow our group to discuss the content of which is going in our thriller film and any micro elements or editing we need to add to make the sequence flow or to make it more thrilling. The meetings allow the group members to talk about any problems that have occurred when filming or any suggestions that someone has to make to improve the thriller sequence or to talk about when we should film next and who is needed. It helped my group when constructing the production as we elaborated on ideas to make them more detailed so we knew exactly what to film. It also helped when filming as were able to know exactly what to film and when to film it and what possible Mes-en-scene elements we were adding in. By having meetings it meant that we could decide when we were next going to film and who was going to be there and this helped when creating the production because it meant that there was no confusion as to what was going on and this resulted in wasting less time. It also helped when filming as we got together and discussed changes that needed to be made with the thriller sequence and this meant that when we did actually film we knew how that filming needed to be improved and what we needed to do when dealing with the camera and the shots we were actually filming. The strengths of having group meetings is that it keeps the group organised and  makes sure that we each know what we're doing within filming the scenes. It is also a good thing to have as it lets the group know if there are any changes that need to be made to our sequence or if there is anything that someone doesn't like. It is also a strength as we talk about who we think is doing enough work and who we think maybe needs to work more when editing or filming. This helps our group to make sure that the work is spread evenly between everyone. I think there could be some changes to the group meetings by talking about who we think should film next or edit because as a group we each do the same job all the time and I think that we could discuss when we think someone should edit next as otherwise the people in our gout do the same job all the time such as editing and some other people in our group don't get to edit. By discussing this it means that we can keep our group organised and make sure that editing and filming is done by everyone in our group.

From carrying out group meetings, I have learnt that we can keep our group organised and waste less time by discussing when we are going to be filming next and who is going to do it. It has also helped when creating blogs because it means that we can talk about what we are going to put into our blog and we can communicate to make decisions about our group narrative and storyboard. I have learnt that group meetings help to create blogs as it means that we can easily talk as a group about strengths and weaknesses of each persons ideas and then as a group we can combine our ideas together. Group meetings allow us to do this as it makes sure that we are all together to discuss our ideas. I think that our group does work well as group because we each put in input and we each take it in turns to different jobs such as editing or filming. I also think our group works well because we co operate with each other and make sure that one person doesn't do all the work. We even the jobs out and make sure that everyone is doing something.

If I was to work in a group next time I think I would make sure that everyone has an important role to do and that not one person is doing most of the work. I would make sure that the jobs are spread out evenly and when deciding what day to film, I would make sure that everyone could make it. I would also change the fact that we would alternate roles to do, instead of just having each person allocated to one role, I would want everyone to do different roles so that they get used to doing everything. I think as a group, we stuck to one role each and I would want to change that so everyone in our group can have a go at doing something different. I also found that in our group, one person would just do editing all the time while someone else always does the filming and if we were put into other groups I would want to change that as I think it is important for each person to learn about the different roles and to understand what each role consists of. I would also want to change the way we film as I felt like we didn't plan our filming days that well because we didn't always decide what we wanted to film until the day and this led to our group having to constantly film every night because we didn't have the right costume or equipment to film with. I think that if I was put in a group again, I would make sure that we knew exactly what shots we were filming and not change our mind about it. I would also want the filming to be done in one long chunk instead of doing little bits at a time as this wasted a lot of time and meant that each time we would waste half an hour setting up the equipment and sorting out make up and costumes when we could of been filming. I would make sure we doing a long filming session instead of lots of little filming sessions as this would mean we would have more time editing and less time filming and wasting time.