Post - Production process

Due to other group member's unavailability during post production, we had to share job roles more than we usually would have, meaning Sarah and I took charge of the edit on a number of occasions. Although we initially had a draft structure by which to go by, several issues cropped up during the production process which meant that when reviewing footage back, the structure had to continuously be adapted which although was extremely time consuming was worth it in the end as we managed to better the film as we went along and it has been a valuable learning process.

Some of the main issues that we encountered whilst in the edit were finding enough variety in shots to make an interesting visual structure and sound interference issues. We decided the best way to approach this with there only being two of us was for one of us to work on the sound issues and research ways around this, whilst the other one work on visuals and searching through all of the footage, including any extra content that we originally gathered which we did not initially intend to use. This way of working was quite successful, however the editing process was still quite stressful as it was taking up a large amount of our own time when we had different job roles than the editor and other work to be getting on with. 

I also spent some time during the final post production week reading a few sections of an editing book that I have, The Technique of Film and Video Editing: History, Theory and Practice (by Ken Dancyger, 2010.) to gain a bit more knowledge on and familiarise myself with post production as this is an area that I am not too confident with.

Having sat down as a group and reviewed the footage a number of times again, we made some more notes and managed to restructure the timeline completely so as to try out new ways of structuring the content and telling our story in the way in which we intended.

I think we made some brave decisions which worked to our advantage, such as choosing to shoot a final last minute interview and leaving space to fit this in and work around it within the current edit. Considering the tight time schedule we had, I think we have done the best job we can with the edit and have worked extremely well as a team to ensure that our final film is what we initially intended for it to be, especially in terms of the story that is coming across.