Overview - project progress evaluation

In terms of the whole project, throughout I think we have had some differences between our group but this was inevitable working in such a small group with lots of work to do. When we cut the whole class in half, this inevitably meant more work for everyone, not that this was a problem for me because I'm used to lots of work but for others it either got too much or they have just not bothered as well as they wanted to.

Concerning jobs for the project, I have taken up quite a few, trying to help people while they was either away or trying to complete all the other tasks. I have taken the role of casting, emailing the cast and texting them to arrange free times, as well as ensuring they learn their lines and look through the script while Mike was away. I have also taken a directorial role to help Kirk, when people were not doing their jobs properly or just not bothering as well as they needed to to ensure everything was progressing as it should.

I also helped in the shoot for episode 1, helping Tim with the camera work and showing him the storyboard, telling him what to do next in terms of shots and angles etc. However, despite these alterations, my main role throughout the whole project was to be production manager and to help advertise and market the web series the best I could. In terms of these roles, I think I have done as well as I could. For production manager, I had to ensure risk assessments and request forms for equipment were ready before we could shoot or anything, which I have done well but this is mainly due to good organisation.

For the marketing aspect of my job also, I have promoted the web series as well as I could have done, creating posters, events on Facebook and updating Myspace, Facebook and Twitter as often as I could or felt appropriate. This has resulted in almost 420 views for our web series in the space of 3 days - which in my opinion, is excellent. Although I have taken quite a few different roles in this project than anticipated, I was only trying to help out so that we got all the jobs done that were needed, however this caused conflict in the group when I did not mean it to - after a big group talk we resolved this though and are now on to working fully as a group, with the roles in our group much clearer now meaning we can successfully get more done. Below you can see the marketing and advertising i have done myself including tweets, facebook updates, facebook events and myspace updates.

In terms of the project progress as a whole, overall we have progressed very well and met the deadline for the first launch sucessfully. We are now working hard to ensure we film Monday, edit Monday night and have the second episode ready Tuesday 7PM, for the second episode launch. As you can see I have also posted an email to all the attendees of the launch to remind them about the second episode of Lines.

These pictures to the left and below all show marketing techniques I have used in order to promote our web series. You can see twitter updates, facebook updates and events, emails etc.