The team knew at the beginning of the week that editing was going to be a nightmare, we all knew that we still had one or two things to go out and record, that and some of our team had a day off, or appointments, on various days, giving us less people power to get everything done. When we actually got to editing, we encountered the worse luck, we had set back after set back.
We learned upon editing that all our interviews had a problem with them, 2 that took place on the same day had really bad audio problems due to a mix being left on and the battery running out, and our third interview (which also had audio problems) wasn't shot in 16:9. The audio problems in the third interview was from Nathan's mic, meaning that we could go out and reshoot all the questions (which we did on Friday) but sadly, the audio on the other two was from our interviewee's mics, meaning that we had to do what we could in post production.
Our biggest concern, other than the various problems we found with our footage, was the looming deadline, especially the draft edit we was asked to make to show Student Services what we had been up too, on that day, we only had one or two things completely edited and finished, it was all on different machines, harddrives and macbooks, and we had a bad start to the day due to the shard area being down, then full. It was at this point that we decided to put together a trailer, so we at least had something to show, and we could answer any questions student union had for our team. This worked wonderfully, the trailer managed to show the humour our documentary has with the Dino The Drug Talking Dinosaur sketch, as well as show off the factual and serious side of it with quick snippits of our vox pops and interviews.
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Looking back through my Production Journal, I feel like I haven't written enough, trouble is I know my notes will cover a lot of what I have talked about in the last few production journals, and I hate repeating myself.
Now that we only have one more day to really polish of this brief and move onto what I hope to be a lot less stress free assignment, I can take the time to sit back and look over everything my team has accomplished, our biggest strength was the sheer amount of organisation we had, everything you see in our documentary has been discussed, re-discussed, planned out then performed, which made the edits a lot simpler, at least for me it did as I knew exactly what our team wanted the final outcome to look like, I hope the other 4 felt the same as well.
As for the faults, I could put it down to bad luck, but it was down to us at the end of the day to check the mic's were off, find another mic, double and triple check the camera's settings etc, the only plus I saw from those mishaps was have great it was to see that the team didn't blame eachother and fall out over them, we all got on to create the best piece we could, dispite the set backs.
I think I will go more in depth about the strength and weaknesses of the team and the documentary in the evaluation, this was more like a few thoughts I had and wanted to remember rather than a production journal on how editing went.
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