What Went Well
-I think the first thing that went was was working in a group. In comparison to last time working in a group, i think we were all clear on what we wanted to do and how we wanted to do it. We knew first off that we needed to communicate more and understand what roles people wanted to take on. This time, Katie wanted to get more involved in actual editing rather than just graphics, so we kept all the files and edited from her laptop, this i think worked better, we all contributed to editing in some way from her laptop rather than it being left to one person. Also, Laura wanted to get more involved with the camera work, so on the live shoot with Rosie and Joel, Laura was on 2nd camera; the more complex one that involved sticking on a close up shot of Rosie. I wanted to get more involved with editing, the post production side and i think i achieved that in some way. One of my strengths i think is taking an idea someone gives me and putting it into practice; therefore after getting feedback from our rough and fine cut tutorials i felt like i had more of an idea of what i wanted to edit, i sat with Katie and together we rearranged the timeline and put more GVs in on both occasions after our tutorials.
-A strength of our actual project i think was the live aspect of the package. We filmed using two cameras, something i had suggested because i believed though it was a live, we could still use a variety of shots and make it look very professional with good coverage. I thought we needed one camera to stay on a close up of Rosie because she was our main subject, and then the other camera Katie decided to use a wide shot to illustrate both of them talking. I also came up with the idea for Joel to switch looking cameras on his last link to close the programme; something id seen and researched in programmes before and i thought would work well. Part of this as well that was really good was the fact Rosie was such a good contact; she was an expert and gave us great answers and content, this was down to Laura for finding her.
-The whole branding of our project was really good; we had a good colour arrangement and everything linked, right from the social media pages created by Laura and the website which was created by Aimee. This was down to the knowledge of adobe after effects that Aimee and Katie had, Aimee created our logo as well as an animation of it which i think really set our project aside and gave it a definite professional look. I didn't get too involved in the graphics side of it; i enjoy more the pre production organisational stuff and was trying to get more involved with actual editing - this is something i think i would like to get more involved in in the future.
-Lastly, i think our last strength was taking feedback from Helen and putting it into practice. From both our rough cut and fine cut tutorial sessions we recorded what Helen said and made sure to put in place what she had told us. For example, we completed changed our introduction, i wrote out a huge page of voiceovers and Aimee arranged for Joel to meet with us to record them, this enabled us to still put out the information we needed to say to the audience, but in a more simplified way. We really used the valuable feedback from Helen in a way to completely improve our project and highly believe we were successful for that.
What we could improve on
-Something we needed to watch out on was framing, we needed to make sure that in the midst of all of our filming we make sure there was nothing in frame. For example on the live, Rosie's sound pack was in shot in the background and we didn't notice.
-Also, i think we needed to come up with an idea quicker than what we did, it took us so long to decide on an actual idea that our research was delayed. At first we all came up with our own individual idea; mine revolving around the advertising of Christmas becoming earlier and earlier every year. We needed to come up with an idea that was different; originally wanting to go down the halloween route but realising that many other groups also wanted to do this. Finally Katie Aimee and Laura expanded on my christmas idea, pairing it with their idea of debt and credit. I think because we came up with this idea so late we didn't have as long to do all of the research and we also wanted to film ASAP because we were aware we didn't have long to edit, and with the graphic ideas we had in mind, we wanted to make sure we had as much time to edit as possible.
-We needed to plan more sequencing and GVS. Especially with the package involving Kerri, i think we should have planned more sequencing to cover the cuts, because when we were editing we found we quick ran out of GVs to cover the cuts and needed to film last minute other ones, which although that worked fine, it just wasn't ideal.
-Lastly i think we needed to be more prepared with our audio. We planned our voice overs last minute so we had to film using a DSLR; which wasn't good in comparison to the clip mic we used for the other ones.
Overall
Overall i really enjoyed this project, i liked the topic and had quite an interest in it. I think i had a really good amount of contribution to the project which included calling up organisations such as Citizens advice trying to find out some more information, as well as writing the voiceovers and helping out with editing somewhat. Something new in this project was bringing in external people and interviewing them, i enjoyed this part as well as i think i was quite confident around them, i introduced myself and the rest of the group and i took the lead on making the guests feel welcome and up to speed with what they would be doing with us. I thought that would be best as the more comfortable they felt, the better content they would give us. The video itself i think was really successful, as a group we all collaborated well and in the end i think we all put in equal effort, equal contribution and created a good news piece.
Our final video can be found here:
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