Individual Statement - Tom Burlinson

Individual statement

Throughout this project I have worked as part of a group, this is a statement of my individual contribution to the project.

As a group we all had a discussion and talked about what song we would like to use for our project and then we took work from our previous individual blogs to create the new blog. I was responsible for setting up the group gmail account to use and creating the blog, having maintained it throughout the project, posting research and embedding videos when they are given to me as well as more recently putting all the work in date order so it makes sense. I was also responsible for uploading a fair few of the videos onto YouTube.  However I was not solely responsible for this and other members of my group contributed.

The research and planning was split up among our group and we all made an equal contribution to this, I had responsibility for organising the cast members and making sure we could film on certain days etc, like a producer in a professional studio. I also contributed to research with slide shows and videos on music labels and research into current bands music videos.

With filming and editing I feel I put in a lot of work, doing lots of shoots and spending a large amount of my free time editing, while I am not suggesting my group partners did no work, I will admit that I feel I did most of the work when it came to editing. However I must stress that this is because of the fact that I enjoyed it very much and wanted to maintain control, which is a flaw on my behalf - not being able to share that area very well with others.

My contribution to the auxiliary tasks was less so than with the filming and editing, I organised the space and models for the photoshoot and while I attended the shoot I did not take part and did not edit any of the photos or the resulting digi-pak, website, and poster. I did however set up the bands two pages on the social networking sites – twitter and facebook.

Overall I made a large contribution to my groups project and put in a lot of hours work, but flaws on my part may have meant it was less possible for other members in my group to make as large a contribution to the filming and editing as myself, something which I would change if given another chance.