Film Reflection – April 27, 2010

Today was not a very successful lesson at all. We began the class by everyone sharing their ideas for the music video, and then we were going to discuss them and choose one idea we liked the best and begin writing the shot list. Harry presented his idea of doing a music video on politics, whilst Zoe, Sophia and I presented an idea on the environment. However, we could not agree on a song. For the entire lesson, we were trying to come up with a solution to make both parties happy but could not figure out a way. We knew that by the end of the lesson, that we would have to come up with a solution at least, as we had already spent 4 single lessons trying to choose a song. By this stage, we were simply wasting time.
Unfortunately, we had still not come to a decision by 12:30, and thus had to pick it out of a hat. When we picked it out of the hat, the environment-themed idea won, and Harry demanded a change of group.

The two songs were Wonderful by Gary Go and Mr Writer by the Stereophonics






From this lesson, we have now learned more about each others personalities and who works well together and who doesn't. I feel that in order for us to work successfully as a group, we will need to come up with an entirely new idea that all of us can agree on. However due to time restraints, this will need to be done before the start of the next lesson, so we can dive straight into our idea in that class. If we still do not manage to come up with a new song by then, we will have to go ahead with the environment idea. I feel it would be a real shame if everyone in the group could not agree on a song.
I also feel that part of the reason that Harry's idea was not being so warmly welcomed, is that he was struggling to present his ideas in a comprehensible manner. This is another possible solution, to have Harry present this idea to us three girls before the next lesson and see if he can convince us to choose his idea.
Overall, I learned more about the importance of leadership in a group and how someone needs to take charge here or nothing is going to get done in our group, as we are all natural leaders. Our group needs to work on finding a solution to us being able to work well together without someone being largely unhappy and uninspired about what we are working towards.
Today I feel that the whole group needs to work to being more of an “open-minded” (from the IB learner profile) group member in order for our group to succeed.