As I have said in one of my early blog posts towards the start of this project, I do not agree with the idea of looking at each other's blogs as they are our own individual development logs which are fed back to the tutor, though my peers have obviously ignored this repeatedly. However, I got a bit worried after a rather unnecessarily heated argument over social media took place and I decided that I would take a look. I ended up finding the comments on me a bit worrying and often misleading in regards to my contributions to the course through a series of what I can only think of as misunderstandings, if not plain ignorance.
Specifically, I found that my contributions to the course may seem nullified by what has been written by the others in their blogs. I also saw comments about when I wasn't able to make it to certain meetings on just two of the eight days of primary filming despite me letting them know why I couldn't make those days. I feel like I should list a few examples where my reasons for these were perhaps not so clear.
Here are a few times where I was not able to make some of the shoots and reasons why:
- 5th October, After feedback on the script from Helen.
I was unable to stay to consult with the rest of the group on a few matters regarding the feedback due to needing to get home to help with some problems involving the landlord. This had already been promised to the my family but I probably did not communicate this to the group properly.
- 10th October, Filming Day 2
I had to leave filming slightly earlier as I needed to get home as the landlord was visiting and I needed to be there. I had relayed this to by group earlier that day.
- 21st October, Brands Hatch Filming.
After we got feedback for the rough cut, we were told that we needed to get an entirely new live segment with meant that we had to film a load of new footage. It was decided that the live footage would be shot at Brands Hatch on the Saturday. Unfortunately I was unable to make this shoot as I work from 11pm on the Friday night and do not finish until between 7am and 7:30am on the Saturday morning, meaning that I would have been asleep for the majority of the Saturday. As it turned out, I wasn't feeling too well for the short time that I was awake during that day.
- 25th October, Final Editing
Plans had already been made quite a while ago by certain members of my family (who live halfway across England) that they would come down specifically to see me and we would go out for the day for dinner. Unfortunately, I was asked at the very last minute last night if I was able to come in today. I didn't feel that it would have been a good gesture for me to suddenly turn these family members away right at the last minute. However, I do agree and realise that this was not the best time seeing as it is the day before submission and I have apologised profusely for this bad timing. I should have used better foresight in this instance. Though Cailan also had to miss a day for similar reasons but there appeared to be no problems with him doing this.
Other complaints I have had from the group include how I have supposedly not had much input into the editing process. I spent quite a lot of time during the edit time creating the soundtrack, sending them to the rest of the group, getting feedback, adapting the music to this feedback, creating brand new tracks from scratch and rinsing and repeating. This is something that I have been doing non-stop. There was then a time when the group were happy with the soundtrack as it was so I stopped, leaving it for some time. I then started again as soon as there was some dissatisfaction with some of the material. This has taken up much of the editing process time.
In terms of the edit itself, I have not yet had the chance to properly get in and edit the sound and the music track that I have created. This is partly because a certain group member appeared not to listen to much of the feedback we were giving them and wasn't letting anyone intervene into 'their' edit. My experience with the editing process thus far has mostly involved watching various stages of the edit and trying to give some constructive feedback to what has been accomplished.
There have been these kind of issues all the way through the development, production and post-production of this News project but have mostly kept this out of my blog for fear of having my fellow group members reading it and taking things the wrong way.
A big concern I have is that I may not be properly credited for the full amount of contribution I have given to this course in the final project due to these misunderstandings. If so, I shall make a full list of my contributions in my evaluation of the project.
I hope this blog doesn't sound like I am making a load of excuses and I am not trying to attack my group; they have been pleasant to work with most of the time. I also know that I don't nessecarily get marked based what they say in their own blogs. I have just outlined various problems I have had throughout the duration of this project and I am just worried that certain claims by the others might be misleading as to full contributions I had to this project.
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