Organizing ourselves; Harry Chipman

The filming of this production was a shambles, to say the least. We organised an interview with the curators of Farnham Museum and there were multiple occasions of mis-communications between ourselves and the museum. This resulted in us turning up for our interview, only to be told that the other party thought it was at a different time. This resulted in extortionate levels of frustration for us. We eventually got around to finishing the filming and got most of the editing done, but this still has yet to be finished as it has been deleted multiple times by faulty software.

We only occasionally managed to all film together with the 3 of us, because we regularly had conflicting schedules, and as such had to film bits in pairs more often than not.

Currently, we are struggling terribly to organize ourselves because we have no motivation to finish the editing of our documentary

Ryan - Health and Safety

We were conscious on filming on location, so we had to be extra careful when doing the interviews. Not just our safety but also the interviewees

Cables needed to be in sight so easy to spot and tucked away so there was no risk of tripping over.

When filming out on the street we needed to be aware of pedestrians and not get in the way of them, or them tripping over the tripod legs or when carrying the big camera or the bag to be aware to knock any one over with them.  

Ryan - How the group Managed Problems

Our group consisted of three people, many problems arose like lack of attendance from two members or poor time keeping that wasn't always our fault.

Arranging interviews has been a nightmare with lack of communication between not only the group members but between us and the interviewees. Arranging for an interview for a specific time and date to then turn and be told that the museum hasn't informed the interviewees yet.

Calling up the historians personally to the arrange a mutual agreement on the time and date.

Again we were let down as timings and dates have been crossed meaning we have had to reschedule for the next, leaving us next to no time to polish off our documentary.
We didn't waste this time so we went out and gathered a few more shots of the farnham and made sure we got all the relevant stuff we needed.

The interview this week went well but not with out failure on the equipments behalf as all the tripods that were fit to use were out. We just took the camera and improvised with using book stacks and then getting shots to make it look like you were walking down the streets of farnham.

Editing has gone south, we are no where near completing the documentary for the deadline.
This issue has yet to be resolved.