This unit has really taught be a lot that I can take forward. Although, we did have many issues and struggles along the way, I feel I've learnt from these and developed my skills much more.
I feel my strengths for this unit were my problem solving. When a problem occurred such as when we had to re-film, nurse dropped out, none of our contacts got back, I always looked for the solution and not dwell on the problem. When reshooting, I ensured that I planned out what it is we needed to reshoot and made sure everything was set up on time, we worked through it all and got everything filmed and edited before the deadline. I would also say that our turn around of the edit was handled very well and the team work me and George had when editing the production together. Our communication as a team worked really good as we all communicated and contributed towards the final video and the planning and design of the branding and the logo with all giving input and feedback to ensure we got the best quality which would sell our channel. I would say the promo video is a big strength of ours as we found a way to be creative and we thought outside the box, I was also able to bring in aspects which I'd learnt from previous units to make a short but effective video to sell the channel and help brand NewsGrad. I think I did very well with the design of the background as I made a simple but effective studio which worked for both selling the channel and being suitable for us. The amount of work I took on as well I was about to handle it well, considering I did the script, a large amount of research, creation of the website, YouTube channel, majority of the filming process and a large amount of the editing as well. I would say I got these done to a high quality as well considering at some points we were rushed for time.
I feel our final video has turned out really well. Even though it has changed from the initial idea, it still follows what NewsGrad do and the content they bring out and still works with the promo we produced for the channel.
I feel there are quite a few weaknesses for this unit however, although George did make it better in post production, the Live interview does let our project down. Organisation wasn't great here. We should have set a date where we all could have been there and we should have worked through the camera movement and sound set up together as this is what got to Jack and George on the day of filming. As well, we should have looked around the location to try and find a more quiet part as the audio from the cars really drowns out Emma in the interview. I think this could have been done much better and we weren't as organised as the rest of the shoot which I feel you can see from the footage and quality of the pre-recorded sections. Another issue I feel we had was with the script, considering we ended up adding in another section (5 top tips) which we didn't even need at the end and took an entire day to film, I think this was really bad organisation. This can also be said for the review of the green screen footage as we didn't notice that Jack was getting cut off and needed to go back and reshoot. This could have been avoided if we had been more organised and if we reviewed the footage before going into the edit which we should have been doing. Our weakness in the edit was with the audio and with the colour from some of the green screen. Most of which we reshot and this took up too much time from the edit.
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