Team reflection/rant

This project has been one of the worst that I have ever done in my whole life. This is due to the team breaking down and being absolutely horrible.

Nikki was put in the role of team leader; however, she was the worst team leader we could have had. The project began well, and we decided who was going to do what task, Nikki said that she was going to be writing the script, the casebook and finding an actor. She did not write a script and told us that it was going to be improvised on the day that we were filming. Me, Sophie and Jo had all chased her multiple times to make sure that she was going to complete the task, she told us that she had made a draft the night before, however she turned up with nothing and told us that it is going to be improvised.

She also did not find an actor and didn’t tell us until the day before filming. This meant that we found it difficult to find anyone at such short notice. Me and Sophie Knight were only able to find someone because they were part of our class.

Her last task was to write the casebook, however when it was sent to us it was incomplete, she had not included any of the work about the posters, as well as any of the pre-production work that everyone did, such as Pawel’s mock up drawings of the characters.

She was also a bad leader overall. During arguments she was not impartial and instead joined in on it. As well as that she did not take control of the group, for instance when we were filming she did not explain to the actor what to do, until we were in the greenscreen room. She created a hostile environment overall, it felt like we could not put any ideas forward or want to change anything because she would tell us off for even suggesting it. Also, she would be very defensive when we spoke in the group chat that the group had created, such as I asked for the casebook, so I could look over it and she got really defensive and ended not sending it to me.

Pawel had the tasks of drawing 6 characters, and a cityscape. These were quite important to the video as we wanted to show the 3 characters in the dystopian world, then have them compared to how they looked in the utopian world. However, he only drew 3 characters, this is half of one of the tasks that he completed. Also, he did not tell us that he was not going to be drawing the other characters or cityscape until the week before we were handing the project in. The cityscape was vital to both the video and the posters, meaning they were not able to be finished until we had it. Sophie Knight had to draw it in one night, so we would have enough time to finish the posters and video in time.

Cameron was given the task of storyboarding the video, which he did complete, but we ended up not using. He also made a logo, this was not his task, however I am grateful of him for making it, as he was trying to do work unlike the other two people from his class.

Jo had the task of filming the video and editing it. She did not come in on the day of filming. She did however edit the video and added after effects to it, which was a big job that she had to complete in a week.

Me and Sophie Knight ended up doing most of the work because the rest of the people did not do the tasks that they were meant to. This project has been horrible because these people did not complete their work and didn’t even tell us. If they had told us in advance we could have helped.