How well the group managed health and safety - Jacob

While filming and planning our documentary we made sure our health and safety was our main priority, some examples of the things we needed to be careful about were:

• Cables involved with our cameras used, we had to make sure we did not get electric shocks or trip over the cables 
• We also needed to make sure that we did not film in dangerous or illegal locations, as this could not only cause us harm but we could also be breaking the law, we made sure that we would not do this by asking the owners of our locations if we could film in the areas required for our project. 
• Another risk that we had to be very careful of was the weather, making sure that the weather did not make paths and/or other surfaces dangerous to walk across. 
• We also had to make sure our equipment did not get wet, as this could not only cause harm to us but could also break the equipment. 
• We also had to be weary of pedestrians and traffic while filming, as quiet a few of our shots involved using Farnham town as a whole.

Overall I think our team managed our health and safety very well, we had no accidents happen when while we were filming. 

Daniel Potter - How we managed people

We managed people very well at the beginning of the project, we did this by equally splitting up the assignment tasks to carry out individually. This was done by the complexity and ease of each tasks.

However we then did not manage people very well during the filming and editing stages.
Reasons for this:

• Personality Clashes
• Working styles/methods
• Time issues

The main issue that we had during our media filming was the clashes of the personality, this was a key issue within the group as it has lead to some members of the group to get incredibly pissed off.

this has tied in with the issue of the working styles.

In our group we had 3 different working styles, one who wanted to just get on with the work and get it over and done with. The next merely carried out the work when it needed to be done. This was not as much of an issue as it was still all completed on time. However the third simply carried out the work when they wanted to. This was incredibly awkward when it came to working in a group as it meant the others had to carry out the majority of the work to begin with on their own which caused them to become stressed easily.

The third issue was down to time issues, as people in the group had different time tables it was difficult to find a time where all the members were available and willing to go carry out the filming. This was difficult to work around and caused issues in the group.

Our Mind Map of ideas - Jacob

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Sarah-Beth - How the group managed time

How the group managed time

Our group managed time reasonably well, I had made a production schedule and we tried our best to stick to this however due to some problems we had to make some changes to when we completed certain parts. One problem that we had was that the there we no available tripods at the time that we wanted to film. We needed a tripod because the camera needed to be held steady. The held us up a bit because it meant that we could not film. We resolved this by completing or improving paperwork that was also part of this assignment. This meant that we did not waste any time. We also had the problem of the mac’s being slow which held us up. We resolved this by completing the work in our own time. Before the filming we took time to plan the documentary so that we did not waste any time when filming by not knowing what we are doing. Once we had planned the documentary, we went on to film, this when we experienced our main problem, which was with the equipment. We then edited the footage that we had and realised that we needed more to make sure it was long enough. Meeting deadlines also involved a lot of time management because we had a deadline for the paperwork, filming and the editing.

Sarah-Beth - How the group managed equipment

How the group managed equipment

We had a few problems with equipment when we were filming. This was that when we needed to film, there were no tripods available. This meant that we were not able to film because the camera needed to be held steady and this cannot be done without a tripod. Also another time that we needed to film the interviews there were no camera’s available. This held us up and meant that we could not edit when we had planned. We resolved this by completing or improving paperwork that was also part of this assignment. This meant that we did not waste any time. We also had the problem of the mac’s being slow which held us up. We resolved this by completing the work in our own time.

Daniel Potter - How the group managed Problems

These are the problems we encountered:

• Difficult Editing (Voice Overs)
• No equipment
• Unable to access certain areas

We combatted these issues via different means.

For the editing we were originally going to use a camera for the voice overs however this sounded really shaky therefore we decided to use the Mac itself to record the voice over the top of the rest of the documentary.

Also we took it in turn to carry out the editing as it was incredibly easy to get frustrated with it. Upon several occasions we required assistance to be shown how to properly cross fade several of our clips as they kept going wrong and not working properly.

Another issue that we had frequently was that there was no equipment for us to use. There was not really anything that we could do about this and therefore just had to do our best with the resources available.

This was incredibly frustrating and meant that everything took much longer than necessary. Also half way through we lost half of our footage as the tape was misplaced. Therefore we had to make do with the footage we had.

One of our big issues we faced we being unable to gain access to several of the areas that we wanted to, such as Zizzi's restaurant and the chinese. We did as much filming at these locations as possible however this was not much. Therefore we had to record several other locations to make up the time, this was a great inconvenience as it wasn't necessary to our documentary, this caused us to have to make up a series of other 'stories' to make them relevant.

In the end we didn't actually use this footage anyway so it didn't make any difference to the finished documentary.