PLTS / Contributions.

Last Tuesday, we thought about our contributions to the T.I.E pieces. Here's what we got;

Effective Participators;

- Discuss and resolve concerns;

We were worried that we wouldn't meet the deadline. We didn't meet the first deadline because we were unorganised, so we decided to be a little more organised e.g Making a timeline of what we would do.

We had a disagreement about something to do with the skeleton. We weren't sure if we wanted to put flowers round it or not, as a group, we decided not to.

- Present a persuasive case for action;

We needed to borrow the skeleton, but at first we couldn't have neither the new one of the old one. We had to be persuasive, and we eventually got a skeleton. It was the old one, but it was better than none at all.

Each of us had to present our idea for T.I.E pieces at the start of the unit, back in December. We had to create a presentation on a subject of our choice, which would then be voted on by the class. I found the anorexia/body image presentations very persuasive, that's why I decided to join one of those groups.

- Propose practical ways forward, breaking these down into manageable steps;

We made a couple of timelines, one at the beginning where we didn't meet the timeline, then one after the new timeline had been set. I tried to stick to this and make references to it whenever I thought it would help the group.

- Identify Improvements;

Imogen rewrote the script from the problems we had found whilst watching certain parts. Some parts didn't make sense, some parts we thought needed slowing down or speeding up, and some just needed sometime more in them. We scrapped some ideas, and added more in. The first scripts was very short, so we had to keep adding parts in.

Team Workers;

Collaborate with others towards common goals; 

Well, first of all we all had the common goal of creating a successful T.I.E piece and completing it before the deadline.

To do this, we first needed a script which we all took part in. We all sat round a computer, worked out who should be who, how they would speak, ect. We all decided to follow the story Imogen had found, 'The Skeleton In My Closet' as the backbone to our story.

We all had to act in the T.I.E, because we had small groups.

- Reach agreements, managing discussions to achieve results;

We had alot of discussions about conventions, scene ideas, characters, ect. We had to reach agreements on what we wanted to use, and what would really create an effect, because we couldn't use ALL our ideas, there were too many. I tried to explain which would be useful/ would have a good effect or show the theme of anorexia against what could just be a waste of time.

Provide constructive support and feedback to others;

Me and Imogen gave Emily and Beth feedback while they were doing the 'Mirror Scene'. Such as if it would be better to face the audience or face each other, ect.
We gave feedback to other groups when possible. This was often when we saw unfinished parts in rehearsals, or if we were asked to look over sometime that might be put in but needs looking at.
I filled out questionaires for other groups after their performances, trying to give them as much useful feedback as I could by giving full answers with things to improve, and things I liked.