For weeks myself and a peer from my PGCE class have been wanting to team teach within my Employability session. Ben is a film and media specialist who is also training to be a teacher. I thought this would be the best opportunity to bring Ben into my Employability session with the Performing and Production Arts students, to create a showreel.
Showreels are used for auditions as sometimes a director may ask to submit your showreel so they have a better understanding what type of performer you are as you can sometimes not see this within a face to face audition.
Weeks before this session i have made both classes aware to bring in footage of their performance or production work as this will contribute towards their showreel. I also emailed my area manager if we can chance rooms for this session so the students are able to use the appropriate software.
When the students arrived at the session i introduced Ben and asked them to upload their footage to the computer they are sat at. As soon as i said this i had blank faces and comments were made such as "Footage?" "I never knew we had to bring in footage..."
We then had to spend the next 30 minutes finding footage for the students on google drive. Unfortunatly Production arts did not have footage on google drive so i had to run up to the staff room to find their programme leader to take footage down on my memory stick. Because of this i had to go to each individual computer to upload footage. Finally when each student had footage we began to upload this to the software that is used to create a showreel.
We then noticed that most students do not have enough storage on their hard drive for footage. This meant that the students could not save footage to then upload it to the software needed.
This wasted 40 minutes of the session and also Bens time. Behavior was appalling because of everything that was going wrong which resulted in students going on youtube and not listening to instructions. We then had to cancel what we had planned and for students to access their online portfolio to make it up to date.