Todays lesson

Today was a sorting of roles and positions. Firstly I elected chairs who would run the meetings held, who would take charge of votes for example. The way I did this was got the group to electe people and then voted to see who got the most. Finally Alex and Tim were chosen. I believe this took far too long to decide. On the other hand these roles are important as they help a flow of creativity but keep it in order, but I feel there are people who wouldn't contribute then complaints were made when others became passionate about ideas.

Secondly I discussed ideas for the webisodes. The way I did it was wrote ideas on a postick note then discussed the ideas. I came up with several different ideas but in the end it was decided that James and Haydens idea would work the best. The idea was that the webisode are based in a detention room, 5 students (regulars) are always there. Theres conflict between the people in the room and incorporates flashbacks.

Jobs were elected to each member of the group, then there was a either a positive reaction or negative based on how well people felt you were suited. I chose the job of writer because I have some creative ideas which can be worked into the script. I will be working with Alex, Hayden and James, these are ideal working partners as all of us have bold ideas and are willing to join forces to create bigger and bolder work.

Towards the end people were accused of shouting over people and not letting people join in the conversation. Whereas I feel this is unfair to say as a minority of people were purposely silent and almost sometimes putting down ideas due to personal feelings no matter how good the idea was. I believe that if you want to get the best ideas there has to be a flow of conversation as peoples ideas spark from other peoples ideas. If we all sat listening to one person then listening to another in would get painfully boring and an ineffective use of time.

Roles-
Directors: kirk, dave
Editor: laurence
Cameramen: matt L, tara, alex
Title designer: matt H, hayden
Casting director: mike
Sound: philippa, sam
Money handler: dave
Writers: james, hayden, ales, matt h, alie
Marketing: dave, alie
Interweb: ashley