#also my sketchbook and some documentaries (time permitting)

[direwombat]

if there's one thing about me it's that i love the plotting/planning process of writing

[bagcloud-blog]

week 12 reflection

1.What problems did you encounter during the production cycle project?How did you solve them? How did you document them in your sketchbook / blog?

I think that our pre production planning was not a difficult process for us to go through, we all managed to agree on what we were going to do our documentary on.

2.What primary research (interviews performed, actions you observed, etc.) have you gathered for your documentary portrait?

We had to research a bit into bakeries so that we can ask relevant questions to our subject in our interview.

3.How do you feel you managed your time this week?Is there any area of project development (ideas generation, research, testing) where you struggled/ are struggling or feel you could improve?Which part has taken you the most time so far?

I’ve been taking time to try to catch up with the other film students so that I can try to be as useful to my group as possible 

4.Did you gather feedback on your work-in-progress from your peers of from staff? What did they have to say about your Mini-task documentary and your Sound Design workshop outcomes?

The feedback that we got for our process video was more or less about the shots that we had taken from it, more static tripod shots and shots with more light in them.

5.Why is the Risk Assessment process necessary in filmmaking?What are three hazards that you may encounter/ have to risk assess during your filming activity?

Since we are filming in an old building we need to be careful if we are plugging things in, we need to also be aware of various cables that will be around since the bakery will be in use when we film there & the area is quite small so we have to be sure that we aren’t blocking any exits with our kit.

6.Did you acquire the necessary permissions for filming your documentary? Why is it necessary to have permits? What can happen if you do not have permits?

Yes, it’s important to have permission to film somewhere because you can be made to leave if you don’t have the right papers and it can be difficult to find another location in time if there wasn’t enough planning ahead to anticipate a location change.

7.Did you draft questions for your documentary subject to consider before interviewing them?This is a standard practice in the field of journalism. What are the advantages of doing this? What could be the disadvantages?

Andy was in charge of gathering the questions for the subject, i think that they were helpful for the documentary because of we did not have pre-prepared questions the subject could’ve spoken about a topic that was not relevant to our project. It’s also helpful because it would be really awkward if we didn’t have questions and just sat there in silence...

8.What ethical considerations does your team have to consider in the way you represent the person your documentary is about?Are you staging any part of your documentary?

We might be staging one or two parts of the actual filming of the documentary so that we can get multiple shots of the same action. I think that we need to consider that the interview can be seen as staged since we are only asking specific questions.

9.Do you feel you pushed yourself out of your comfort zone with this project?

it’s my first time doing a shoot like this so I am trying something completely new but I’ve really enjoyed the experience that I’m going to gain from it.

10.In the professional realm, filmmakers generally operate in teams and have delegated roles. What are three things you think are necessary in order for collaboration to be effective?

I think that if people are each careful with their own roles whilst also listening to other people in the group can lead to a good collaboration because then it becomes a group project rather than a number of people doing separate jobs and putting them together in the end.

How well do you think you have you put these attributes into practice?

I think that we’ve been able to work together quite well, on the shoot we gave each other ideas about what do film etc.

Have you had to compromise on any ideas? 

I don’t think that we had anything that we distinctly set up to do that we weren’t able to shoot .

Have you had to improvise shots?

We didn’t plan most of our shots because we weren’t really sure what the space was like, and there was also some difficult lighting which meant we had to be careful of where we were standing for the shots.