University projects

Sigh...

So for the past week me and my film crew have been filming our university assignment. I won't go into detail regarding the plot of the film though.

The first day went ok, despite me suffering from a killer of a migraine. The second day went ok too, although the heat was unbearable, and arguments in the group started to break out. The final day was pretty bad. Not a disaster, but bad. The actors were over an hour late to start with, then when we changed location, the majority of the group went into town to get everyone food while the rest of us set up equipment and prepared ourselves, but the 'lunch group' decided to take a ridiculous amount of time in buying the food and coming to the location. My Subway was freezing cold by the time it got to me. To add insult to injury, whilst filming, the cable connecting my microphone to my edirol decided to break somehow, resulting in me getting a few nasty electric shocks. I had to switch over to my trusty dictaphone (which I now carry everywhere with me) and recorded sound on it.

The shoot finished, and it was time to embark on the long journey back home in the hot sun with the equipment. Despite there only being three scheduled shooting days, there were definitely going to be more added.

Group work is the bane of my life. And technology hates me.

Finally, a breakthrough.

Or so I thought...

So it has been almost a year since my last film/TV related job, which was filming an annual fashion show. This time around, I was to film for a film festival in Wales. "Finally!" I thought, the chance to film for a company that didn't contact me through education institutions. This was going to be a great way to get my name out there. The only thing I didn't bargain on however, was me editing the footage. I was hoping for somebody to take the footage from me and edit it. I was wrong. 

Now I can edit, and I edit my own little videos all the time, but editing a video for a company with no proper direction was very frustrating to say the least. It was very stressful uploading a video to Youtube, (which took a couple of hours) and then being told to change things, then uploading it again and once again being told to change things. I was being told two different things. Was this the last time I had to 'correct' the video? No. I had to do it again, and once I read the two different forms of feedback from two different people and made the desired changes, the video was exactly the same as it was in the first place. So obviously, this made me want to throw my computer out of my window onto the concrete below.

As I write this, I am still waiting on an email I sent six hours ago regarding the video content. I don't know if they've decided to stick with the original video, or to just never contact me again.

I'm going to change my business cards to 'Sound recordist and camera operator only. NO EDITING WHAT SO EVER'.

Later.