Finished!

And thats a wrap, we have finished! All burnt onto a disc and and handed in. I thought Id write a blog entry conclude this unit. Overall I have enjoyed this project but I have learnt alot of valuable lessons along the way.
My favourite part of the whole unit was all of the pre production work and the research. I really enjoyed writing the shooting script and location scouting.
The actually shooting and interviews proved difficult, as Abbi had chosen to use her family. They are a very closed family and were not willing to talk unless being pushed to. In the end i asked the questions as Abbi was not willing to ask certain questions as she did not want to make them upset. If we were to do this again, I would deffinatly use people that are good speakers and that are not relatives.
Choosing to shoot in Brighton may not have been the best idea either, luckily we all drive, but as poor students, we spent 40 pounds in petrol overall going back and forth to Brighton twice. If we had chosen to film nearer we could have kept going back till we had all the sequences we wanted.
Aswell Abbi had an accident that meant she could not attended many editing sessions, which left us one man down. Although this couldnt be helped, it did keep us on our toes and we realised we had a lot of work to do.


I think the final edit turned out better than expected as we put a lot of effort into it and worked very hard over the last few days.
Maddie