Group meetings - Miss Georgiou

The purpose of having group meetings was so that our group was able to meet up with the purpose of discussing ideas and ensuring that everyone in the group was aware of what was happening and was happy with it. Within these meetings we discussed every issues element of our music video which needed planning from the actual production itself to the ways in which the music video would be perceived, how it would effect the audience and any risks or dangers which may occur on set. Had we not spoke to the lengths of detail which we took when having our meetings this could result in numerous different issues. For instance group members may be unaware that certain things are happening which may mean that either they aren't turning up to filming etc. or a an idea may have been ran through with everyone else who was happy with it expect from one person who may have been able to bring something better to the table. This could also result in group members feeling out of the loop which can be demotivating as they begin to feel that their role isn't as important or as respected and therefore loose interest in the production. Without group meetings it would be hard to arrange and complete tasks as a group as this would mean simply discussing things as and when they happened. This can be time consuming and also mean that a lot of our work is therefore rushed ruining the quality of our work. This may also result in one person completely taking charge which isn't a good idea as this can also be demotivating for other groups members; also it is essential to have a range of different people applying input when creating a production such as a music video as this means that a variety of different opinions, ideas and concocts are being put into the production preventing it from becoming boring and meaning that it is able to suit a wider range of people as a wider range of mind-sets have  gone into it thus suiting a wider range of people.

Overall our group meetings went well. However there was one occasion with miss-communication which resorted in heated tensions. If there was one aspect to my group meetings which I could change it would be this. As there being tensions within the group doesn't make things easy to progress as often when tensions arise as does peoples egos making it difficult for people to work together within a group as they become less willingly to compromise or even communicate with each other.  In order to change this I would make it clear to group members at the very beginning of production at the very first meeting that this sort of atmosphere wouldn't be tolerated, reminding people of the issues this can bring with it and how negatively it would effect our production, if tensions were to continue then roles would have to be delegated more separately and there would be less over lapping work between either party working within the group meaning that work would be completed individually. However this is something to avoid as having more eyes working on something is generally better than having just one person as different people are able to view different things, thus someone may notice a flaw which audience members may pick up upon which someone else working on the production may not pick up upon, also the concept of having different mindsets also means that more ideas and on offer which others may go unheard of. Although we did generally work well together working around each others commitments and doing our best to ensure that all three main group members would be able to attend meetings and filming etc. Together we were able to create the narrative for our music video well as we all listened to each others ideas and bounced off of them as we found inspiration from each other. We also worked well as a team as all of us were happy to donate our possessions to the production of our music video as well as going beyond our actual role for the project and offering to help out in a variety of different elements to our music video. Good examples of this would be the fact that although I was portraying the artist I still went behind the camera lenses, so to have a look at how the location looked on screen so to understand how the audience would capture the setting and whether how it would be filmed would be doing the video justice as well as testing out different camera angles prior to actually filming again so to see what would work best for the audience. Another example would be the fact that for the scene which took place at the jazz cafe both Jess and Emma helped to do my hair and make up so to help represent the artist and conforming to the soul genre. This went above their tittle as they were only expected to film the production, plan it and ensure that things generally ran smoothly however it was thought that other people would be delegated to perform such a role. Yet they opted to as I asked them and we understood that the only people who would truly be able to picture what we were trying to create that we would be able to employee on budget would be ourselves.