We were given the task in class to create a video for a competition, and the title we were given was 'Consider the consequences' - the brief for this video was to demonstrate the consequences of under age drinking, showing the effects and trying to convince underage drinkers to stop drinking, or to prevent them in the first place.
Our video did not turn out how we planned it, and I was not happy with the result at all. I was very disappointed at how our video turned out. I put this down to a lack of planning, but also rushing the story line. We were well prepared at the beginning, we found some actors in the lower school, as we thought the representation of students wearing school uniform was important to show in our video. We felt that it was a good idea because it would help students around the county to relate to the characters in our video.
We planned that we would show a character collapsing at the end to show the real effects, we also planned that we would show students attempting to get someone older to buy them alcohol, and then show them taking it to the forest and drinking it there, as it is a known thing that younger people go to drink out in the streets or in local forests or wooded areas in attempt to drink without being seen.
Because we were taking students outside the school grounds during school time, we had to have a couple of members of staff to escort them.
The day we selected to film, we had to go ahead with, but the weather was awful, and it was so difficult to film. The members of staff were concerned that it was not good to film with the students outside in such weather so they kept trying to rush us to finish filming, and we were under a time limit of 2 hours for our lessons anyway.
With the weather being the way it was and the members of staff trying to rush it up as quick as possible, the ending had to be cut short and a couple of members of our group decided that the ending should be as quick as possible so they said that it would still work if we put the students saying they were going to be sick, and then quickly ringing for an ambulance. This made no sense really when we watched it back, because people are sick everyday and ambulances aren't just called for that.
Overall I was disappointed with our finished product, and drew the conclusion that large groups do not work well together as the more people in the group the more likely there is to be conflict, as there are a lot of ideas. There were several times when a couple of people did not get on well in our group due to such a lot of ideas.
I have also learnt that you need to ensure you have more than enough time to film because when we done ours we found that we did not have enough time to do it in as the day we filmed it was raining all day but we had no option but to get it done.
Even though we did not have an excellent video, I learnt a lot from this experience.
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