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  In this section of the assignment, there was a teamwork based task in which the author must offer a disclaimer, that they were unable to attend the session involved with the teamwork exercise so the information and thoughts present in this post will be representative of other experiences and reflection on a whole. To begin there was a session involved in which a video clip of a performance by The Danish National Symphony Orchestra. During this performance there was a sheet of paper with various roles from the orchestra and a scale of how closely the user relates to each role, with the option of adding their own. The idea behind this psychometric test was to enable the person to begin to understand what role of a team they feel like they fit in to and then in comparison with their role in the group for the flipbook section they would be able to comparatively see how their view reflects the truth. The author of this post filled out their form as follows;
From a personal perspective the author revealed that they prefer to identify with the “oboe guy”. From that perspective it reveals in part they prefer a specific highlight role who’s key moment reacts in the middle of the piece providing a stable and significant transition into the final act of the performance, rather than having a spotlight role or being a major focus of the group; the author prefers to have a meaningful moment that helps to support the rest of the ensemble to their fullest. In practice this desire and preference can not be the case. In terms of actuality it is this author’s experience that their own personal preference can be thrown out of the window when it comes to the actions of others. The prime example for this author is within the foundation year of their studies where a group project was undertaken to develop a poster for presentation. During that entire process a group of six had dwindled down to three, and a majority of the work fell onto the author to carry. This is not to try and push a particular narrative of one view of teamwork, but to highlight the authors experience and view that regardless of how someone is to view themselves and how they perform within a team, the key to any successful teamwork is the ability to adapt and accommodate each person’s skills and abilities within that team. To follow on, acknowledging that the author did not partake in the team aspect of this section, the following middle section of a flipbook was produced. This scene depicts a version of “The very hungry Caterpillar” as they make their way towards a piece of food that they are eager to enjoy. The basis of what is presented was decided to portray movement in motion, by trying to mimic a natural way the creature would move across the ground. Particularly when the caterpillar is to eat the cucumber in this scene the movement of full cucumber to none needed to have a reasonable amount of in between shots to give a more natural and flowing state of movement within the piece.