Evaluation

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Within my evaluation I am going to be writing about my reflection on whole experience and how I found things when being a project manager for my own team when creating a corporate film for Oakdale Primary School .

When I was first assigned this unit each team was given team leaders so than each production would be managed and organised by one person within the Group. In my group I was position the team leader and had to keep control of tricky situations that had come forth when producing a corporate film. Once each team was decided we had our first team meeting so that we were able to just talk and think up some general ideas of how we could create the film. Within this meet I also assigned each member a different role for when writing the blog. My role was to keep in contact with our client and produce a proposal by working beside the brief that we were given of our client which was put in place with our first meeting with the headteacher of the school. 

When it came to the production side of creating the corporate video for Oakdale Primary School I assigned each team member a job ole that best described them and would support their skills. My job when filming was Director, editor and co-camera operator working beside the main camera operator. The main camera operator was in charge of the visual look so they had also taken pictures of the interior and the exterior of the school so that we were then able to produce risk assessments and design a story board. The other team members role was to keep a recording of the interviews for back up use just in case the sound wasn't good on the cameras. Their role was also to be the interviewer and to help the children and teachers in the school to feel more comfortable. 

When filming me and my team came across may obstetrical, for example on our first day of filming we found that there were not much equipment for the group to use as other teams were not working well with sharing the equipment out with other groups. This became very stressful as we had a member of the school walking around and at times felt as if I was letting our group down, but as a strong team leader I over came this problem by solving the situation. After that day of filming I then organised for me and my team member to joint their school for another day of films and had a conversation with our dispatcher so that when it came round to filming again we were able to gather more equipment and turn up to the school in a much more professional manner. As the pressure was on us the second time round when filming I felt that we did an excellent job at turning things around even though there were many disasters on the way we always pulled ourselves up and stood strong as a team and showed the school that they had received the right people for the production.

When it came round to editing the production I felt as if it was the hardest task that I was given as my client kept on hanging their mind on what they wanted the film to look like. As editing is my strong point within film this never put me down as I was at my most comfortable, I saw this as opening my eyes and finding new ways to accomplish a task to create the perfect production. I felt as if me and my group worked the hardest we could to develop a vision for our client even though we were never able to sign off our film because the client had caused us to run over our deadline from changing their mind several times. 

In conclusion of this I would say that me group worked very well together as we all had different strengths and qualities this came to our favour helping us to produce a good film to show to our client even though then were not able to fully make their minds up on what they wanted their film to look like after many takes trying to create a vision for them and open their minds to a whole new world. 

If I had a second chance at producing the corporate film again the things that I would change would be for me and my group to have been more prepared when it came to equipment and make sure that everyone was to share everything out equally before we went off filming. Other than this I would say that my expedience as a whole was excellent and I was able to work within a group with people that I have never worked with before, this would help me in the long run when it comes to producing another piece of work. 

Social action and communication media production

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When creating a corporate production for Specialist Support Schools Partnership who is a group of school’s that have been put together to create a wider team within the community of Tameside. We were given a brief that aimed to provide evidence of independence throughout the school from children at the age of 4-11 when communicating with other students and teachers when developing their knowledge of the day-to-day world. This is to raise the awareness for the SSSP as a local level. We did this by creating a visual view that will be used for the public to watch and explore schools such as Oakdale Primary School that cater for children with certain learning difficulties that specialises for children that are non-verbal, so that their use of communication is through signs and symbols. When producing a promotional film for the school we intended to portray the teachers and the children working together as a team with a positive attitude on the school causing the audience to feel as if they have had a true insight on every child’s needs.

The target audience that the promotional film will be reaching out to would be parents of the local community that will have students that are attending the school as they will be able to have an inside look on what their child will be learning and developing on a social and independent level. This video will be used to inform the community and the educational authorizes as they will be able to access the corporate film on the schools website. By doing so we were able to gather information on how each teacher in the school develop each child’s independence on their learning skills and within the social skills throughout the experience and by using the use of interviews.

The visual path of the corporate film shows it’s audience that each individual child that will attend Oakdale Primary School will have the correct equipment to help them learn and communicate with others, this school also provides rooms such as the sensory room which helps to calm the children down as this school caters for children with Moderate learning difficulties. Throughout the film the audience will gather a true sense of independence as each teacher encourages the children to take part in every day activities such as doing their groceries and talking on the phone. This will help the children for when they grow up, as they will be able to go and do their own shopping without always needing other peoples help.

How this film shows representation for Oakdale Primary School is by showing the independence within each child when interacting with other students and teachers and the independence within their education when they are developing their knowledge and skills. We shown this by showing the use of signs and symbols being used when there was commination being used between a child and the teachers, for example when it was dinner time for the students they will use symbols of what food they would like to eat and exchange it with their teacher for their chosen meal.

How this corporate film has strengthened the community is by creating awareness for the SSSP, by doing so the schools are able to help their students to achieve the support that is needed so that the parents will feel more comfortable as their child is in a more safe environment.