First meeting together as a group

Today we met up for our first group meeting to discuss the briefs that we were given by our teacher. We were given a list of different briefs ranging from advertisements to film making so that we have a range of different areas that we can work on for our A2 coursework. This is because this year it’s more independent work within the different groups rather than the whole class doing the same thing and getting ideas from each other. This is useful as it gives us the opportunity to choose something different from the rest of the class and use the skills that we picked up last year to create something unique and original which would not only impress our teacher or the exam board but other people around us who don’t usually interact themselves in the media area.

We were given a list of 14 briefs to work from however this year we also had to pick two ancillary tasks that went with the task to choose and create as well as the main brief. This is quite nerve racking as well as exciting as we are put under more pressure to do a lot more work than last year but also its giving us the chance to expand our work further and in more depth and also motivates us as we are working on more than one thing so it doesn’t get boring.

Looking at the briefs, there were many which appealed to us that we felt that would be interesting to do such as the advertisements which I have done before in ICT at GCSE and felt that it would be quite appealing to produce however when looking at past A2 blogs, we weren’t able to find anything that would help us in producing our work and so decided not to do this as we wouldn’t know where to start. Other briefs that we thought that we could complete was where we would have to produce a newspaper article however as a group we felt that this would be quite boring and we wouldn’t feel that motivated to do this which decrease the quality of the work. Other briefs such as a new computer game or a music video, we felt that they would be difficult for us to produce and would be complicated and so again felt that this would de-motivate us to do the work.

One brief that seemed to appeal to us quite a bit was where we have to create a film lasting for 5 minutes which seemed reasonable for us to be able to complete however we thought for AS we produced something similar to this and thought maybe we should try to produce something different than last year.