Group meetings

Group meetings are essential to carry out for a number of reasons. It allows our group to listen to other members suggestions, have proper organisation and also discuss changes that need to be made. Without having meetings, this would cause confusion, information would be lost and things may change in the production without the consent of another member, which may cause a rift. As a group, it also allows us to create mind maps to creatively picture out what we want in our video, allowing us to compare and discuss all ideas, this is important as others may not only disagree with your idea, but may have a better one than you and also your groups feedback on ideas can also determine whether an idea of yours works or not. Group meetings also allowed us to pass over vital information, for instance, Tyler emailing me and Charlie the email he sent to mercury records. The creation of our storyboards was also vital in planning our music video and could not have happened if all group members were not present to discuss and help with ideas, as we would become confused over the narrative and it would become messy and unorganised. Our strenghts were that when we realised that sometimes it wasn't possible for all members to attend meetings previously arranged, we set up a chat on an app called "Whatsapp" between the three of us, which allowed contact without having to meet face to face and ideas to be traded and also vital pictures to be sent over, such as storyboard images. All group members were active in this chat and very helpful and it definitely contributed towards our success.

Overall, I realised that when carrying out a group meeting, it helps with making group production efficient, it prevents distraction and allows things to run smoothly, however it is still important to try to be flexible and work around issues when it comes to meeting if anything does come up prior. 

I believe me and my group worked well as a team when it came to planning and following our timetables that we arranged with each other. The only instances where we did have some problems towards meeting the schedule was if a group members personal issues prevented being able to complete tasks on certain days such as family commitments for example, but me and my group did manage to work around these factors and in the end found ways of completing tasks set and working around obstacles that we faced, which mainly contained rearranging times, which we did perfectly, linking back to using whatsapp to do this also which really did help. 

If I was to go back and do group meetings again, the one thing I would change would be to discuss our music videos narrative in greater detail as a group together to avoid any more confusion, as this was a small problem we came across, and therefore to make further discussion time talking about the storyboard planning and making sure everyone was clear with the narrative.