We were tasked in a group of three to produce a promo for Child Action Northwest, to highlight the story and life of a real young carer in the northwest. For the promo we chose Emily Mcgregor as she's been a young carer from a young age. We began by brainstorming ideas for what we could include in the promo and decided it would be best to focus on Emily's younger siblings, Korey who's five and Alisha who's eight. We thought it would best to film the kids just playing out their normal routine around the house, washing up, helping wash clothes, feeding the animals and so on. It was also important to get footage of them just being children, eating their tea and baking for example. A recee wasn't required for the shoot as we knew that we were going to be shooting in Emily's house, so we could plan ahead easily and knew what shots what we wanted.
When we got to the house we instanlty stumbled upon a problem, it wasn't as easy to film the kids in their daily routine as we thought it would be as they instantly became shy and reserved when we began to film. This did set us back somewhat but we did manage to get around it eventually and gather the footage that we needed, however we did want to get some shots in the park of them playing but due to the weather this wasn't possible, luckily there was a trampoline in the yard that we substituted for the park. Overall it was a very successful shoot as me managed both the shots of them helping around the house and a couple of interviews with them. I felt I got more than enough time on the camera as well as sound, as there was only three of us taking part, meaning we could spread the work very easily amongst ourselves.
Editing
Since we only had four days to put this edit together we had to work quickly and not waste any time, I felt this was the first time I took a lead role in the editing process on a video, which has given me the confidence to take a much more proactive role in the future when editing videos.
All in all I think the video was a success and we did very well with what we had in a very short space of time, I definitely gained some invaluable experience in editing techniques and also learnt a lot about speeding up the pre-production process, as we had to have it done in one day. The only thing I was dissapointed with was how when we took the promo to the northwest action meeting they didn't seem all that interested in viewing the video which made it feel like somewhat of a waste. But considering all the valuable experience I gained, it really wasn't.
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