How Our Group Managed People - Ellie

Overall, I think our group managed people quite well.

At the very start of the project, we took on an equal workload (within the independent tasks) each and ensured that we communicated so we were able to complete these tasks as well as possible - for example, to ensure that Becky and I were able to do the bibliography correctly, we had to talk to Victoria to know where she was finding her secondary research.

Also, when it came to filming, we took on roles that we felt were suited best to our individual abilities (such as Victoria being the interviewer, myself and Cheryl writing the interview questions, Becky managing the lighting, etc) so that we would have good and useable footage when it came time to edit.

Outside of our group, I feel that we managed people just as well. I think this is partly because, because we had multiple people as interviewees, to be able to film their interviews we had to be organised and clear about:

• how long each interview would take;
• when our interviewees' (and our) schedules allowed enough time for us to film;
• where we would be filming;
• explaining to the interviewees how we would like them to answer certain questions (for example, their favourite social network - just to say its name so we can use it for the beginning of our documentary);
• how we would light each individual shot, if we could use the studio lights, if we would be using lamp light or daylight for other locations, etc - as we could not waste time figuring it out on the day. 

Communication is of utmost importance when managing people and I think that our group communicated rather well - both with each other, and those we were filming - which made our managing of people quite good.