Splitting up into groups

A couple of lessons ago, my media class was split into groups for the opening title sequence for our thriller. This was done immediately after the last lesson that we had finished presenting our ideas to the class. Adam, our teacher took a note of each of our four ideas that we had presented, in order to understand briefly who's ideas would potentially struggle and who's ideas are strong and have room for development. The group selection was done by an app, this meant that it was completely random. Adam felt this was the best way to make sure that the groups were put together evenly and that this method would set us up for the 'real world', where we would have no say in our group division. I felt that this was a completely fair way of splitting our media class up. I got put into a group with Alen, Ashen and Hayden. Straight away, we all got together and started to reintroduce our ideas, one by one. This helped us comment and even eliminate a couple of ideas from the sixteen that we initially had.

Our first group production meeting went successfully, we continued to discuss the ideas for our opening sequences. We identified and eliminated the ideas that we psychically would not be able to produce. Even though this had helped us to cut down the amount, we were still left with about eight ideas. It was challenging for each group member to let go of their ideas, counting myself but throughout our hour discussion, we cut down two more ideas. Each time that we would go through the ideas that we were left with, each group member would have a creative way of developing each of the ideas.

In our most recent lesson we came down to three main ideas that we had decided to storyboard. By storyboarding, this enabled us to clarify on the scenes that we would want to include in each of the ideas. It also helped us understand what ideas would be difficult to carry out and what ideas would actually work. For example, we decided on storyboarding Ashen's idea, we found out from this process that his idea to have a 'gun' at the end of the opening sequence wouldn't work. Therefore, we adapted the idea to make the opening sequence seem a lot more realistic and simple. My group and I are working to develop our ideas further and to remake the storyboards to make them clearer and more detailed, in order to work with them later on in the project.