This is going to be my evaluation on the corporate film that our team crated for Cromwell High School. In our group I was given charge of all the blogging work for the corporate film.
What happened when we was creating our corporate film for Cromwell High School is we was set the task to create a film that will be available to parents to view on sending there children to Cromwell High school. What we did was we had a meeting once the task was set and as a team we sorted out all the roles in the team such as Michael Blair was the Production Manager of the Group so it was his decision on what roles we were set. Megan Duffield was set the task of doing all the editing for the film once we had got all the footage that was needed for the corporate film, Shaf Islam was in charge of all the filming along with Michael Blair and Joe Dootson was in charge of all the blogging work. As a group we organised a date with the headteacher of the school Andrew Foord and we agreed on the first week back after October half term to have a week of going into the school and gathering all the footage to create the corporate film. Once all the filming was finished Joe Dootson was in charge of organising the blog and making sure that all the work is complete and on the blog as well as all the paperwork as well. Megan, Mike and Shaf were all doing the editing and sorting out all the footage such as what were good shots and what were bad shots and the bad shots will not be used in the film where are the good shots will be used in the film.
Once the task was set I was feeling very optimistic about this task and very honoured as well because I was given a very good opportunity by Andrew Foord and the college itself to go and do something that I haven't done before. I was looking forward to going into the school and meeting the children because I felt that this could be a life changing experience for me. I have never worked with children profound disabilities and after I came out of the school this shown me that nothing is impossible and that being in the school for a week shown me to never give up because the children in the school never give up and they continue to learn.
What was good about the experience was that I was given an amazing opportunity to go and do something I haven't done before such as going working with children who have profound disabilities and see how much it doesn't effect them. Another thing that went good is that the children were also very polite to us when we was in the school and they were never any trouble and all the staff were really polite to us and organised days out to go and film the children. What else that went well was how the finished film turned out as it has turned out exactly how we wanted to and when we showed it to Andrew Foord he was pleased with the film and we didn't have to make any amendments to the film.
What was bad about this experience is it was very time consuming and also Ofsted because when we was filming they were due in the school that week so they stopped us from filming certain things that we wanted to film. Such as when the children went to a garage to look at cars and motorbikes and how they work but they had to call that off because ofsted were due in the school on that day.
The sense that I could make from a situation was when we couldn't go into the school to film on the day of the children going to go to a mechanics garage and learn about how cars and motorbikes work. We were really annoyed about this as we felt that filming that could have had huge benefit on the video and this would have been good for the parents to see as it is showing that the school goes out of the box and takes the children to experience and learn new things that could be beneficial in life. What we did after this is we used our initiative and asked them if they could organise another day for us to go and film the children. They organised an afternoon to go swimming at medlock swimming baths and this enabled us to go and get footage of the children swimming at medlock swimming baths in Droylsden. We also organised with one of the children called Jack to film him in the hydro learning how to swim and this was to show the teachers support at Cromwell High School.
If this task ever arose again I feel that we could have maybe got more interviews of children as we feel we could have got there point of view on the school such as what they enjoy about school such as there favourite subjects what they enjoy doing outside of school. Overall I have thoroughly enjoyed this experience and feel that it has been one of the most life changing experiences and that I feel that the video will show parents who are considering sending their child to Cromwell High School will be very impressed with the film. The film will show what a good school Cromwell is and show that it caters for any child and will help them develop there skills.
