We're all in this together..(How cheesy?!)

So we all decided to go with the trainee teacher interview concept. We're currently drawing up a story board, then on Friday we're filming everything for it. I'm pretty confident that we'll be able to pull it off because our team seems to be working well together at the moment.. I just hope it stays that way! I know that i have a tendency to get a bit controlling and bossy sometimes so I'm trying really hard not to overpower other people and it seems to be going well but i think it will be really challenging to resist when we start filming! Our group is one of the bigger ones so it'll be easy for someone who isn't particularly confident to fade into the background, but I want to make sure that everyone gets a chance to express their ideas, otherwise we'll have one or two people doing everything and that's not how a successful and productive team works.

Preliminary Work

I have SO many ideas for our preliminary project. You probably can't read this very well, but my favourite idea is a trainee teacher job interview (the one highlighted in pink) and the others were ruled out by process of elimination: Most of the settings (e.g. a restaurant and jail) are unavailable and impractical. There will be loads of different things we could incorporate for example lots of jump cuts and close ups of the trainee fidgeting, to create a nervous atmosphere. Also, i was thinking that it would be 'Bridget Jones' style in that the character would do a voiceover of their thoughts which would tie the scene together nicely :)

Not bad for a first go...

We just finished doing our first practice movie. It was a promotional video of the school (Chenderit) and i would say that we just about pulled it off..
We set out with loads of ideas that were really impractical, especially for a short practise film, and in the end we got a very short montage which was completely different to what we originally planned. 
I definitely would say that the experience taught me a lot about working in a group as well as the skills involved with making a movie. Our group was originally a 3 but for the last couple of lessons, it was a 4. Luckily for us, we had a student who had already done media for GCSE and wanted to be a director in the future. Unluckily for us, however, he wasn't in the lesson in which we collected footage, so me and the other member of my team collected what we could, but it was difficult to do what we had originally planned, so we filmed what we could) and hoped that it would be enough- it wasn't. 
I learned a lot from this project. The main things would be:

• Whether to work in a team or not
• How to manage time
• Planning is important!