Week Three

This week during business, we worked effectively as a group to complete many tasks. This week, we actually created our television advertisment. We used the mac computers from the senior library to film. We then used i-movie to put the whole thing together. Vanessa and Jaime were allicated main acting roles while Eliza and I were just kids in the last scene. Jaime dressed up in a bear suit to portray the role of 'Benny the Bear' while Vanessa was 'Euis', the friendly and over the top presenter. We also recorded a 'jingle' to play during the ad. We reworked the song 'one two tie your shoe' so it linked back to the world wildlife foundation and the whole animal theme. An example of this is the first line which we changed to 'one two save the shrew'.

I feel we worked really well as a team and completed almost all tasks effectively. An example of this was how we worked to create our television advertisment. When I have previously created prjects in terms of movies and other audio creatons, it can be a long and tedious proccess. The time it takes to film the different scenes, import sound files, add music and edit all together can really add up. Or group managed to complete this in only five days and we were able to do this because we were organised and prepared to do what was neccessary. We asked Sarah and Tiarna to help us and be in the final scence, but apart from that we were extremely self sufficient.

Individually, I did not progress very far in terms of my individual topic. I have created dot points of what I want to do but apart from that, I didn't really achieve anything. However, now that we have created our product, my speech about promotion will be much easier to construct. We have completed all known group work, so we will be able to concentrate on individual work during class.

During the construction of our movie, I have learnt how to work imovie and edit/put together projects. I feel confident completing this on my own. I was able to guide the group a little with some minor things as I own a mac book computer and that was what we were using to create the ad.

The individual members of our group worked really well this week which I feel was the main reason we were able to do so much work. Vanessa took the lead as she knew exactly what to do with the mac book applications. She knew exactly what to do and taught us all about it. Jaime was full of enthusiam, almost dying to get into the suit. Eliza was very helpfuk with everything. She though practically about how we could do everything, such as where to film the final scence and where we could record things. I feel I worked well and helped everyone. I was eager and ready to do what had to be done. I also contributed ideas.

From now until our assignment is due, I want to work really hard and achieve everything. I am confident that we will all be able to have our draft completed by Wednesday and then be able to present on Monday. I am a little nervous however, about memorizing my speech andpreparing our powerpoint.

At A Later Point:

Our assignment is due on Tuesday. I feel confident that we have worked well. We now have the weekend and Monday's lesson to prepare for our presentation. Yesterdays leeson was spent going through everyones speeches and all members of the group helped others, giving pointers and feedback. Everyones speech was very impressive and I think our presentation will come toghether really well.