What was effective working in a group was how we could both split the roles, and play to each other's strengths accordingly. We could both give ideas to each other and build from them adding more variety to our planning for the video/website/poster and giving us more options to work from.
We also had our key roles assigned to us, so the workload was evenly split and we could create the best possible product. My role was the filming of the video and being behind the camera, as well as deciding the basic narrative of the video and how it should be played out. I feel I did succeed in this role and did it well, with the camera shots used being of a proper standard and fitting the conventions of the Nu Metal genre, which I see as a bigger success considering I wasn't too familiar with the genre prior to this coursework.
I had also been familiar with using cameras before and behind mainly behind them in both my GCSE and AS Media coursework.
I also personally feel if I had been working as an individual it would have been inferior to the work produced due to the lack of another person with different artistic vision to form an understanding with and create more ideas. This being evident in the group work has helped the video become more appealing to both me and Anthony and hopefully to our target audience.
If I had been working as an individual I most likely would have chosen a different genre to centre my work around, one I'm more familiar with. While I can follow the codes and conventions better this way, by doing something different it created a new experience in my journey through A Level media and now I feel competent working with the genre I have done and would keep this improved standard if I was to make another video from the genre.
I would have also had the full creative control over the project which could have both strengthened and weakened the final outcome, reflecting what I do well on (creativity, vision) and what I lack (technical side, editing).
As a result of working in a group I missed out on familiarising myself with technologies such as editing software, which was left purely to Anthony. This would have been a worthwhile skill to pick up and one regret of my time doing this project.
I am on the whole proud of the work me and Anthony have produced, and glad I took up this project as it has gave better insight into the difficulties involved in making a video as well as the payoff of having a finished video for others to enjoy.
