Monday 2nd May - Sunday 8th May

Post-Production Begins!

Last week we called a wrap on the production which now means the start of Post-Production, the stage of making a film that is mainly my job. For Post-Production I will first organise all the footage by renaming them by scene-shot-take (1-5-3), moving them into the correct scene folder, and then documenting it. By doing this, it will help me later on in the edit when I need to begin assembling everything. This stage (organisation) should have begun on Day 1 of Production to save time as we progress through Post-Production. 

misc folder was for footage that had no indication of what scene/shot/take it was or it had the same scene/shot/take as another clip.

On Wednesday I travelled from Lincoln to Norwich to see my family for the week and took my laptop and hard drive with me so I can continue to organise all the files. This took longer than expected because not having access to a mouse and only having a singular screen slowed things down.

I created a spreadsheet to keep track of the organisation of footage. As I went down the list of renaming, I would document each clip, it's scene-shot-take, what day it's from, what it's original file was called, and any notes. 

During organisation this week, a lot of factors that slowed me down included footage:

- Not having any indication of what scene-shot-take it was from.

- Shots where nothing happened.

- Shots that had a clapperboard in them but very blurry so I couldn't make out what they were filming.

- Shots that had the clapperboard half in view.

- A lot of fine tuning and careful listening was done this week to understand whats what.

On the same spreadsheet, I had a sheet called shots that displayed the shotlist with a checkbox at the end. This checkbox indicated what scenes had been organised and what scenes were still missing.

My Non-Organised footage folder had 166GB of footage in it that needed organising.

On Friday we had our weekly meeting with Jack, well Corbyn, Poppy, and Ella did. Because I was still organising everything and at my parents, I was asked to assemble something together for preview at Jacks. This was a quick 1 minute preview of several scenes and the outcome of this meeting was very stressful. Poppy and Ella were adamant that during the meeting, Jack had suggested I send Poppy all 166GB of footage for her to go through and tell me what takes she wants to save me time. Now I was very much against this and has caused me a lot of stress to do because I knew it was going to waste my time even though they kept telling me it was to "help speed up the assembly for me". 

The consequence of me uploading everything for Poppy was that it took from that Friday even to the end of Sunday to zip all the non-organised files up and upload them to OneDrive because 166GB takes a very long time apparently. During this time, I was unable to edit or organise as my laptop couldn't really handle so much at once so I was idle, wasting my time like I told them it would.

Before I left on Wednesday I had created a Post-Production schedule in which I set myself a certain amount of time each day to organise each scene's footage into the correct locations. But as I came across issues and the understanding that organising all the footage will take longer than anticipated, this schedule become moot.