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How have I worked with other people during the project?
Why was I communicating with them?
I worked with my teammates Pierre and Saesha to do the auditions and casting of the performance. we worked well together and were conclusive in our decisions of who got in and who didn't. we had to communicate with each other to make sure the decisions we made were fair and accurate to the needs of the showcase. I believe that we were adequate in our leniency and didn't judge anybody for things that were not in their control as well as this each of us play different instruments so this allowed us to accurately judge people as we had most of the different types of instruments covered this allowed us to communicate more as we knew some people would have more experience than others.
What did I want to achieve?
we wanted to achieve an accurate and fair setlist that properly showcased music through the ages with a particular focus on classical music and I believe that we did this accurately as we have incorporated classical music from all over the world and have a wide range of styles and composers even though many people wanted to play more modern pieces.
Did I resolve any unexpected issues?
yes on the first-day progress was very slow and we were not able to audition many people however on the second day I rectified this by making sure equipment such as amps and instruments were ready before time so people were able to come straight in and audition when they were ready this also allowed for people to retry their audition if we could see there was a problem or if their nerves were getting the better of them which eventually led to a better experience for everybody involved.

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Describe your arts award project. What will your leadership role be?

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Describe your arts award project. What will your leadership role be?

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my arts award leadership role will be organizing and carrying out the compliance sector of a music production taking place in the summer term. this entails making sure that people are attending the showcase making sure performers are in order making sure everyone is ready to go on the day of the performance and that they know when they are going out and what they are doing and helping with presentation and hospitality, lighting and sound. I am also going to hep with lighting and sound and sending emails to the performers and parents reminding them of the showcase before it.

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What qualities do you think a good leader need to have?

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What qualities do you think a good leader need to have?

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I think a good leader needs to be authoritative and organized so that they know what is happening at all times because otherwise I believe whatever they are organizing is more likely to go wrong. I also believe that a good leader has to be able to command a room and have a strong presence because otherwise people will not listen to them and will not doo things to a good standard however they also need to be kind because otherwise people will become fed up with them and might quit the show or stop helping them.

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What leadership skills would you like to develop in your project?

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What leadership skills would you like to develop in your project?

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I would like to learn how to manage a lot of things at once because I believe I am quite unorganized. by doing this task it allows me to be more organized and will benefit me in the future because it will allow me to practice the vital loric skills needed in many careers

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What resources will you need? Are there any health and safety considerations?

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What resources will you need? Are there any health and safety considerations?

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i will only need people to help me because there will be a lot of performers and there will be lots of people so I will not be able to keep everything in order by my self. I am also in charge of moving the stuff around during the performance so health and safety might be making sure the people get a good rest and make sure they are lifting the objects correctly because otherwise it can lead to muscle and back pain.

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How will this help your leadership skills?

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How will this help your leadership skills?

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this will help my leadership skills because it I will have to manage many people at the same time. this will mean I have to be very organized and will have to work efficiently

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Will you be working with other people? What will they be doing? How does your role relate to others?

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Will you be working with other people? What will they be doing? How does your role relate to others?

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I am working with other people however they are not in my section. this means that they will be doing backstage stuff such as making sure the wires all work but not what i am doing.

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Who are the participants or main audience for your project?

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Who are the participants or main audience for your project?

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the target audience for the production will probably be the parents of people who are in the showcase as they will want to see their children perform however there will be people who come to watch the show. the will be students who are friends with people who are performing. In total i believe that we will have about 50-100 people a night.

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Is there anything specific you need to consider for this audience?

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Is there anything specific you need to consider for this audience?

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we need to consider the amount of seating they will need as this performance is a classical production and so more people will be coming as we have more classical musicians at the school so it is more accessible. I believe that we will also need to account for fire escapes and any allergens in the food we are serving as it might cause a reaction. If this happens we will have to have a first aid practitioner in the hall and we will have to have EpiPen's on hand. we will also need to make sure that we have clear access to outside the building so that in the event of a fire everyone can evacuate before anyone gets hurt. we will also make sure there are fire extinguishers as there will be many electrical appliances plugged in near each other which might cause an electrical fire.

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we will recruit participants by making posters for people to come and audition themselves where they will be put into a setlist so that they can be organized into sections

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we will promote the project by emailing all the students about our project. have a sign up sheet and talking in assembly

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we will do the project on Thursday the 13th of July after school it will be from 5 to 7pm and it will have two parts with a short intermission in-between. the sections will consist of a classical and ensemble section where there are multiple soloists whom are performing various classical music pieces ranging from Indian sitar and dohl to classical violin and piano.

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What practical things will you need to organise and how will you do this?

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What practical things will you need to organise and how will you do this?

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we will need to have multiple organized meetings and chats that allow us to co-operate and work effectively together. this means that we will be organized and not have to panic too much when we are coming closer to the date. we will need to make sure that we have all the components ready for the date.

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What support are you going to need from other people? Who is going to help you and why?

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What support are you going to need from other people? Who is going to help you and why?

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I will need help on the day so that I can make sure everybody goes onto the stage on time and that there is seating and equipment on the stage hen it is needed. I will have a group of volunteers to help me as they will be compliant and will be helpful as they would have chosen to do the job. I have chosen to do it using a volunteer list because otherwise it would take to long to force people into it and they would not want to do it which would cause problems that arrise on the day.

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How are you going to assess how your leadership skills are developing and collect feedback as you go along?

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How are you going to assess how your leadership skills are developing and collect feedback as you go along?

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I will assess how my leadership skills are developing by the feedback of my peers and I will collect this feedback by asking them in a group chat or I will ask them in person. this will allow me to get accurate feedback and will allow me to input this into the padlet easier

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Beginning of project - reflection 1 - 14/5/23

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Beginning of project - reflection 1 - 14/5/23

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we are planning to hold auditions 6 days from now. so far we have quite a few people who are trying to audition and that is good because we will have quite a lot of choices for who will go in and who will not make the cut. this also allows us to see what equipment we will need and the amounts of food and front of house staff we will need. I also think we will have to learn from past mistakes and make sure that the mics are all up to standard and make sure that they are all working for the performers as well as this we need to make sure that all the guitars are working as well as the amps.

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Middle of project - Reflection 2 - 22/6/2023

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Middle of project - Reflection 2 - 22/6/2023

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We have now completed the auditions and are working on the rest of the showcase. currently a set list is being created and the performers are getting ready. we have tickets ready for selling and me and the leaders of lighting and sound and the general backstage manager are planning a meeting soon for the volunteers so that we can get them organized and better ready for the showcase. I expect to have less people than that was on the list however I still think this will be enough people unexpected leadership opportunities that have arisen are that in the auditioning section of the showcase I had to type up everybody who auditioned and had to make sure that everybody was doing their auditions on time with haste. Expected leadership responsibilities is that we had make the decision of who had to be accepted or refused.

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we completed the project and on the day of the project it was a great success. the showcase started with the baroque period and it was quite successful my favourite piece in this period was the violin concerto this was a very good piece and was very emotional. the next period was the romantic era my favourite piece in this era was andantino by Aryan Jha. it was very calming and almost like a lullaby in the end it became a very peaceful and surreal. my favourite piece in the next era was the was take 5 from the modern period.

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How have I worked with other people during the project?
at the end of the project i worked with people by helping position the amps and seating for the showcase as well moving the drum sets and instruments and other equipment
Why was I communicating with them?
I was communicating with them because we had to figure out the most optimal position for everything so that it didn't look to strange when people where performing in groups also taking into account the position of the audience and the feedback from other teachers who were passing through.
What did I want to achieve?
I wanted to achieve an effective position for everything so that it looked good during the performances and to create an effective positioning for the people playing in the showcase
Did I resolve any unexpected issues?
yes me and my colleague resolved the issue of the drum set being in the wrong area making the band section of the showcase feel too spread out across the stage. we did this by moving the drum set towards the centre of the stage and to stop it being to cramped e made sure that there was and even spacing in the performances by having two amps on either side of the drum set.
How am I developing my leadership skills and handling situations appropriately?
I developed my leadership skills by communicating effectively with my peers and the lighting and sound department. this helped m,y ledership because it allowed me to better increase my oracy skills to ultimately help communicating with large crowds and public speaking.

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Collecting feedback on my leadership skills

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Collecting feedback on my leadership skills

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I was told by my colleague Saesha Suresh that my leadership skills were good and that my communication skills were good however I was told that sometimes I get mixed up with what I need to tell people and what I need to get done. This is good feedback for me as it happens often when I need to complete some work.

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What leadership skills have you developed?

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What leadership skills have you developed?

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the leadership skills I developed for the show was the ability to complete work quickly and efficiently this is because we were not given very much time to practice. i also developed the ability to make sure that people were here and this allowed me to get better organizational skills.
I also improved my teamwork and time management skills because I was able to make sure that multiple people were at the right places in the right times and my teamwork improved because I was able to help in a band and took advice from people like the piano teacher Mr tucker.

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What of the interpersonal skills has developed well/not so well? 

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What of the interpersonal skills has developed well/not so well? 

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organizing the showcase allowed me to develop the interpersonal skill of communicating with others effectively. this is because I communicated with a big team of students and teachers which allowed me to get over any problems I had with talking to people.  However, some skills that could stand to improve would be my organization or time management as the showcase ended up being very rushed and last minute with a lot of the work being done in the last week or two. this meant that some of the showcase quality might have been compromised.

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Did anything happen differently from what you originally planned? If so, what and how?

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Did anything happen differently from what you originally planned? If so, what and how?

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no nothing happened to differently to what was expected for the event however one thing that did change plans a little bit was that a lot of the performers scheduled did not show up and some arrived late. this means that we had to start later and had to change the program of the event. we also had to spend more time out of lesson as we didn't get time on the other days of the week to practice causing some of the people did not have as much time to practice as they wanted to.

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Is there anything you would do differently in the future if you were to run the project again? 

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Is there anything you would do differently in the future if you were to run the project again? 

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in the future, I would make sure that we had more time to practice and make sure that the showcase was not as much of a time crunch. I also think I would hold a second round of auditions so that more people could audition as on the day many people were out watching a football match being played between forms on the football pitch. Apart from this i do not think i would change anything else

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What parts of the project plan worked well? Why?

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What parts of the project plan worked well? Why?

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some parts of the project went well were the auditions. on the firsst day we were able to do a few auditions and were able to start making a list of the auditions and people. this allowed me to streamline our process on the second day and this allowed us to do almost double the amount of auditions then we did on the first day. this also allowed us to make sure that the set list was finished earlier so we could print brochures.

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the organization of the bands did not go so well as some of the bands were not able to practice as much as they wanted before the showcase as well as this the year 10 band had just come back from a d of e expedition so they were very tired. this caused some of the bands to not be ready for performing in front of an audience so even though they sounded great when they did practice it became a bit worse when they performed.

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What was your favourite part of the leadership project? 

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What was your favourite part of the leadership project? 

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my favourite part of the leadership project was the auditioning. people coming in and auditioning then seeing their hard work come to fruition was very nice and it allowed me to see the progress of myself and my friends and our musical knowledge and how we could work as a team. as well as this i enjoyed helping with making the set list as it allowed me to see the different periods of music and the different moods and feelings they included such as the romantic period being very calm and soothing some pieces being almost like a lullaby however the baroque period was mor energetic and violent. to contrast this the brass period was also very energetic but it also incorporated some more blues elements and minor chords which gave a weird feel to some of the pieces. the incorporation of instruments such as saxophones allowed the audience to have a change of pace from the different classical periods.

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Which things did you find most challenging?

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Which things did you find most challenging?

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I found organizing all the people and things to be the most challenging because their was so many people and they all had questions about where to go and what to do. as well as this we had to organize all the items and equipment needed so that it could go smoothly. this meant that we had to make sure everything worked and when something didn't we had to try and fix or replace it. this included extension boards for the amps which we had to procure for the basses and guitars

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What have you learnt about working effectively with other people?

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What have you learnt about working effectively with other people?

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I have learnt that working with people requires a lot of understanding and communication. this is because otherwise you would not be able to handle all the work on your own and it would be very difficult to manage everyone. I have also learnt that you need to be able to compromise as without that it would result in arguments and other problems that could end up damaging the team and the project.

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What were the feedback from other people about your project and your role as a leader? 

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What were the feedback from other people about your project and your role as a leader? 

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Arnav was an integral part in organising our school showcase. He communicated effectively with other departments/teams, making sure everyone knew what they were supposed to do. He also made sure they completed it by the deadline, which was very important since we had a limited time to get everything done. Overall, he was a very useful asset in organising the showcase. One thing he could work on, however, was his organisation, as we sometimes found ourselves not having something we needed.

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I think that the feedback I received was good because it has allowed me to reflect on my problems as a leader. I was told that i need to work on my organization and this has helped me because i have now figured out how to complete my work much quicker.

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me moving a speaker on the day of the showcase

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Jeremy and I talking to the volunteers for the backstage