Throughout this coursework I have worked in a group of 4 to produce a music video for "As Long As You Love Me" by Justin Bieber. I found that working in a group was effective because each person could be set different tasks based around what they were already good at. For example Jacob was set with the task of creating the website because he had [revious experience in this area in which the rest of the group did not. Therefore we found this was a valid choice and was best for the group if we wanted to get a higher standard website created.
My role in the group was to film parts outside of sixth form along with blog posts reflecting on progress and some elements of the research that we completed. I found that I completed my role well and the posts that I uploaded were valid and helped the group with the research and planning of the video that we created.
If I was not in a group I would not have produced what I did in a group mainly because I would not have picked this song or one similar, however I would have gone about it the same way in terms of my research and planning where I would have spent a lot of time looking at the genre in itself and looking at videos from it, comparing the similarities and looking for noticeable differences in terms of the style of the videos. However, if I had completed this task individually I do not think I would have met the standard or deadlines because of the amount of work that has been put into the video because it was a massive help being able to split the workload between us, as an individual I do not have the skills that we did as a group so some of the aspects of the coursework would have suffered because of this.
If I wasnt working as a group I would have chosen a more basic song so that I would be able to complete the task by myself without struggling too much with ideas and filming schedules, I am proud of the work that the group has produced as there was a lot of detailed criteria to be met and I felt that we met that as a group and came out with a good result from it.
I felt that although working in a group was good, I missed out on learning about different technologies because certain tasks were set to people with expperience so I found that I missed out on oppourtunities to become more aware of technolgies and missed an oppourtunity to gain skills in new areas that I may have picked up on if I worked as an individual.
