Summary of problems faced in group work - editing and decisions made

Throughout the whole process of filming and editing our footage we came across a few problems, however Tyra and myself quickly and effectively solved these issues. One example of an unexpected issue that crept up was the weather. This was especially an issue when filming our footage as we could not control the weather, and on one of our planned days to film, there was heavy rain, which was an effect that we had originally planned. Even though this was the case, we continued to film through this weather, hoping that some of the clips we could soon later use. Despite this, the weather did soon clear up and we re-filmed the scene. An additional issue we discovered before it occurred was the battery life of the camera on our filming trip to Brighton. We realised that there was nowhere in Brighton that we could charge the camera once the battery life runs out. Tyra and myself therefore had a discussion on what we should do in order to come over this, and concluded that we should just fully charge the camera before we go, and make extra care to turn off the camera between clips to save the battery as much as we could. As we thought of this before hand, we managed to make the battery last the whole time we were in Brighton, meaning we did not have to return to Brighton another day to finish off the clips. 

During the filming process, one of the main issues that occurred was synchronizing the artist’s mouth movements to the lyrics of the song. While filming, we realised that Tyra would have to sing at the same speed as the real song, so when we upload it and edit it, her miming is in sync with the song. Tyra and I once again had a brief discussion as to how we were to over come the problem, and decided that we should play the song out loud on our iPod and place it in her pocket, so she could simply sing along to the words of the song. We found that this was a very successful technique.

During the editing process, Tyra and myself found that we did not come across many issues; the only main apparent one was the time it takes to upload footage. We found that a lot of class time was wasted by simply sitting and waiting for the footage to be uploaded. The first time this occurred we discussed this problem and decided the best thing to do next time was to upload the footage at the beginning of the day, so when it comes to editing in lesson, the footage was there waiting for us to start. We carried this out when uploading our performance scenes, and we found this saved us a lot of time!