Production Roles

In order for a package to be successful, there are many different aspects of the production that have to be sorted. This process is often impossible without splitting the production team up into different roles as the varying degree and difficulty of jobs makes it hard for one person to do alone. There are many different roles in the production of news packages, those similar to that of any kind of media-related product, but in our group we find that dividing ourselves up into roles would create difficulties and boundaries as many of the production roles share the same jobs. We decided that if we all partake in many different aspects, we can learn more about the process and help ourselves to understand which roles we excel in and which roles we need help in.

We all took part in the brainstorms and the initial ideas were developed using teamwork in regular meetings. As we didn’t set any definitive production roles, it is hard to assess where each individual in the group performed best. I believe my strengths were in developing potential ideas and finding an angle for us that is unique to our group, giving ourselves a selling point.

I found the group really worked well together, for example, some of the members would sit back and give the fellow students opportunities to take the project and run with it, then would step back into the limelight after letting the ideas develop, and continue to take the lead while the previous group leaders sat back. The dynamic worked very well and as a result, I feel my involvement in the project was crucial to the success of our package.