group work - paradigm

Well a few classes in and we're already getting elbow deep into the work. yay.
Something i always worried about, especially since we are very close to nearing the end of our higher education and finally at the design industrys doorstep. I always worried i dont have enough group work experience. After all, there no project taken on single handedly, i understand its to not cause confusion when it comes to marking and credit and saving alot of classroom squabbles, but i was debating working on a small group project this semester anyway.
I like how in our time in university weve had a feel for all aspects of a project by doing our own work, this way i know what im good at and what im not, and of course what drives me insane and i want to avoid.... editing being a big one.

So Paradigms (likely going to spell that wrong a million times) is what id consider the basic story idea, a start a middle and an end, its how i begin storyboarding, but turns out theres a real name for these things.

you can learn more here ....
http://understandingfilm.wikifoundry.com/page/3.+The+Classical+Paradigm

thats the simplest version and i think it explains it all perfectly.

So we were all bundeled into groups of approx five, give or take a couple. and given the class task (after a wee presentation and discussion) to create a story paradigm.
how did we start this?
well the usual, who what where when how and why.

below is one of the many messy pages of our pradigm.
basically it was a steampunk style, futuristic world at war, (setting the scene)
it takes place in a factory. really showing off the steampunk.
the story consists of a little robot, abandoned by his master for whatever reason
he then comes alive and trys fixing himself
so his goal is to be not only reunited with his master but also to become complete

hey nobody said it was a good story, just a story.

and me being me..... i took it a little step further. though we all were o the same page coming up with the story, our versions of events like many, differed. our styles, our characters smaller characteristics and even the sequence of events. So this was a fantastic first taster of a group exercise regarding moving image. or storytelling in general.
So from here i think ill build on this wee story a bit more. and allow the others to do the same. whilst still reflecting off one another.