Week 2 - 30 Second TV Advert

Tuesday -

In Andy's afternoon session in the part of the lesson, I was continuing with the research and gathering necessary resources to help me contribute towards my final idea. In the second part of the lesson, we got into groups. The students who were in my group were (Shona, Danny and Hannah.  As a group, we were talking confidently to each other and making good progress on deciding our final idea.  Also, we had to choose which roles we will take on as a group. We did this quite quickly as we didn’t have any queries on our decisions as a group. Here is the productive schedule:

 I felt as a group, we have achieved final decisions and this has made me confident enough to feel that we will work well together and each one of us will use our productive time efficiently. By having these minute meetings, I have learnt to communicate better in a group and achieve better results. I have done a lot of group before hand in GCSE drama, so I’m fairly confident in a group anyway.  The communication skills which I noticed I had improved on was making myself more open about my ideas and opinions on each other decisions, but also making sure I don’t dominate the group, so that everyone gets a fair say about the decision being made.  At the end of the day, I was very happy with my group and was comfortable with most of the decisions made.

Wednesday –  

In Andy’s morning session we were continuing our individual work. I finished my journey plan in this session. We had a quick group meeting rounding up our minutes meeting and discussing further details and ideas for our final idea.   In Harry’s afternoon session, we looked at scripts and how to write them up properly. We were given a handout on an example a of a script from the movie crash and a handout which explained the professional techniques to use when writing up a script. I found this helpful as it gave me a good idea on what to include in a script. I have never written up a script before and found this very helpful as it gave me an insight into what a good script needs. After, Harry explained to us about the script, I was writing up my own script for the exercise without any problems. Harry then introduced us to the storyboard where he showed us the different types of shots to include in your storyboard. I found this fairly straight forward and easy, but it’s just very time consuming. I started to do my rough storyboard in this lesson and I almost managed to complete my storyboard in this lesson.

Friday -  

In Andy’s lesson, I continued my research for my brand because I needed more detail in my research because I haven’t touched all the areas in the research yet. Also, I started to draw my final story board and have made changes to it.  In Simons afternoon session, we were just continuing from our last lesson.