Broadcasting

The final two weeks of the exploratory stage of the course was Broadcasting. I was looking forward to this because it was something I had never done before, the first two days were focused on learning about broadcasting itself, the 'chase sequence' and how the protagonist of your story will resolve the struggles they encounter.
Again we were in groups of 5/6 and one of our first tasks was to decide on a story, within our group we were stuck on two ideas and didn't know what one choose. The first story was about a music producer who goes deaf and teaches himself to understand music by the feel of it and the second was about a girl with schitophrenia who struggles to chase normality as she doesn't want to take her medication. We spoke to our tutors with these ideas and they both preferred the deaf story, however we still couldn't agree on one as a group. We then decided to ask some of our peers what one they would rather watch and the majority said the second one, this was then the one we decided on.
We then researched schiotzophrenia so we knew about the subject and what kind of things people who have it go through, e.g symptoms e.t.c. After this we drew up several storyboards of ideas and made many notes as our story kept changing. After our first crit on week 1 we decided on a final idea and began filming the following week.
I feel that we worked well as a group when we began filming as we took it in turns to film different parts of the film while one of the people in my group was the actress. My individual role within the group was to help direct I also played a role within the filming as I am in two scenes, we then worked as a group to come up with different ideas to edit our film, however we did encounter problems at this stage as at many stages we couldn't all agree on something.
I think that overall I got on well with the given tasks and that what we achieved was successful as the final outcome turned out well when it was all put together and the story was clear. The feedback that we got from others suggested that we didn't need the music that we had included to accompany the film, which was what a few people in my group and myself also thought, furthermore we could improve the film by having more/bigger obstacles for the protagonist to overcome. However, they thought it was a strong story which was emotional. What I found most difficult/challenging was being able to agree on certain things as a group as we had to go with the majority rather than all, furthermore, I think we could improve our film by trying different edits with it for example, without the music and the use of sounds instead.