Peer Review

Peer Review

For this year’s digital media coursework, we had to create a project between 2 or 3 people. This year I was paired with Siobhan Chareka. I do think we were able to communicate effectively through the likes of social media like Facebook and this was a good starting point for us to then share pictures and videos. This definitely helped the process of our project as we could then look and discuss what has been shared and comment and really discuss it in full.

I would say that we did achieve our goals in the production stage as we managed to come up with a storyboard, scene list and the general theme of the short film. However, it was quite difficult to arrange a time to get together and sort it all out in one due go due to other obligations earlier on in the year, I think if we had been able and had the chance to get together more, we might have been able to plan everything a bit better and have everything prepared as opposed to just guessing what needed to be done. I did feel there was less communication so therefore less was planned. In hindsight, writing out a script and scheduling shooting dates ahead would have helped when it came to actually filming the short film.

Using Adobe Premiere Pro between the 2 of us came quite easy as we already had previous experience of using it, however to extend our knowledge, I watched YouTube tutorials about the basic commands to refresh my memory and learn new one to facilitate the progress of our short film. We then took it in turns to shoot and then in the post production stage, edit to create our short film.

There we some problems we had encountered such as the main protagonist becoming so ill that she had to drop out indefinitely, which then led to me taking her place. Some other problems included lack of available shooting times due to other conflict which meant we had to keep post-poning and pushing back, which then meant we had to push back the post-production. We solved the lack of availability by doing individual work and then sending it to each other.

Overall, I do agree that the group did manage to develop and share new working relationships, for instance due to the recent YouTube tutorials I watched, I was then able to share this knowledge with Siobhan, and vice versa. She introduced me to some shortcuts and hidden commands to increase my knowledge further and ease the post-production process, which was then demonstrated in our short film. However the lack of free time between us created some frustration on my part, but I used that to my advantage and with the YouTube tutorials, I was then able to overcome this problem and manage to get everything done within the deadline.