My Individual Role

I helped to come up with the concept that we eventually used in the video. I liked the idea of the Navy advert style, the increasing rhythm and intensity. I have also contributed heavily in the editing, stating my opinion on changes. I suggested at one point that we don't delete a piece of footage that consisted of a drummer hitting his drum then we used the sound from that footage to cut a lot of other footage to the beat. I edited a lot of this and the other two in my group decided that we should get rid of it. I found this to be a horrible idea and objected but unfortunately numbers won over reason and it was deleted. When I went to Bournemouth I was saddened to see that the practitioner actually suggested this as an idea with no prompting. I was annoyed to find out that this was such a good idea it was suggested to us by a professional and we didn't see this and deleted it.

It was also my job to relay the information given to me to my group, as I was the only one who attended Bournemouth out of my group. I made a lot of notes and this helped me to clearly map out my thoughts to my team. They took on board the information I gave them very well and we have used most of it when finishing the edits of our videos.

Acting in our videos was interesting, especially with the voice-over I was able to portray my feelings towards how I wanted the video to sound as it was me talking. After listening to it however I still believe there are people with much better voices than mine who would have fit the role of the narrator much better. I have also discovered that it is very difficult to direct yourself. I thought the voice-over sounded great when I was doing it but listening to it back I can hear everything I could have done better and improved on. These things I wouldn't have missed if I was directing someone else.