Difficulties

Practical Difficulties 

The way we decided to film our project posed quite a few practical problems for us. Interviewing people that we didn't know, in the middle of a busy town centre proved to be incredibly challenging. Various factors prevented us from gathering the right looking footage and responses that we were aiming for. As mentioned in a previous post, the weather in each session turned out to be one of the biggest challenges we had to overcome. Filming outdoors was always going to be difficult; weather and lighting is obviously unpredictable, and the times which we allocated to be filmed turned out to either be raining, extremely windy, over-cast, and the lighting changed as we filmed later into the evening. We also found because of this, people were rather unwilling to stop and talk to us. Especially at the time of day when people were wanting to get home after work. We plan to go out and re-film a lot of our footage at more suitable times of the day, in order to overcome this problem. But we really want to stick with this as part of our idea, so it's vital that we're able to find a different method. 

Editing

Even though we are beginning to learn through practice, using Avid media composer is still proving to be a huge challenge when it comes to editing our footage. It is an on-going process, but I think we're just going to have to persist in order to learn how to use the software.

Personal Differences

Working with people that we don't know it always going to provide challenges, and personal differences are almost unavoidable. I've found that myself and another member of my group have definitely encountered some personal and creative differences. Although I appreciate it is important to have someone who is comfortable leading the group to provide guidance and direction, but I feel as though this particular person has completely taken over the project and is not allowing any input from the rest of the group. Admittedly, because of this, I have begun to lose all interest in this project. I am going to try not to let this effect my input into our work, but it is proving to be quite a challenge as we have been working quite separately and communication between us is low. I do not want our personal issues to effect the grade for the rest of the group, so I am trying to put these differences aside.