Problem solving:

Problems I may encounter:

Problems Section of How can I Did I overcome
Work overcome it? it?
Struggling to Idea Focus groups Yes, I did all
come up and generation and mind of the above
develop ideas. maps, talking
with other
people,
surveys
Getting work All sections Work outside Somewhat – I
done on college still should
time/organising timetable have managed
my time hours at my time
college – in better.
the library

Not getting All sections Send out to Only on a

many survey more people couple of
results. to see if surveys,
they will up otherwise I
the numbers. still
struggled to
get responses.
Getting enough All sections Do more I did keep
responses in research to researching to
focus groups support. overcome the
lack of input.

Lack of All sections Do more Yes I did this

feedback research when in the
it comes to planning and
it, to idea
develop the generation.
idea

The production All sections Keep adapting I did do this

doesn’t fit the to it, do ore when necessary
brief or target research or
audience. explain why I
didn’t go
down that
route
Planning for Practical and Technical Problems
Not covering Research Make sure the I would say I
all research most vital covered all
parts of the the most
film are important
covered research for
the film.

Losing work All sections Keep copies I have kept

on computer, saving them on
USB and on different
Weebly. things, and
not deleted
them so it
should be
fine.
Not meeting Planning/ Try and Mostly met but
genre production change things written about
conventions in the edit – when not
write about feeling close
why they will enough.
or won’t be
met.
Pace pitch is pitch Slow down, or I got quite
delivered. add more nervous, so I
information spoke quite
about the fast, but it
film still was
within the
time limit.
Lack of Pitch Do more I only got one
feedback from research when question from
the pitch it comes to my pitch, so I
it, to had to
develop the research to
idea cover
development.
Running out of Planning/ Have a good All worked out
time for Production schedule and for filming,
filming and bonus day to slightly
editing reshoot difficult for
editing.
Not being able Production Export spare I exported my
to export the copies drafts; my
film. film didn’t
have any issue
going up.

Footage gets Production Keep spares All good – no

deleted. on SD card problem
and USB finding clips

Bad shots are Production Take spare Some shots

taken. shots and b- were covered
roll b-roll, but it
worked out
well.
Audio fails – Production Use the I did have to
Lav mics. camera audio use this – My
Lav mics did
not work
properly
unfortunately.
Camera dies Production Have a spare Never got cut
battery off footage

SD card runs Production Clear SD card Was not faced

out of space before
filming

Have a spare
Camera settings Production Try and edit I had some
are all wrong the issue out weird camera
in post- glitches – I
production or could not get
reshoot rid of these –
they were in
most shot’s,
and I did try
to see what it
was at the
time – I think
my camera is
broken
Leaving things Production Try and crop I did do this
in shot that out in post, and I was
shouldn’t be or use quite annoyed
there. different because there
shots, was no way of
reshoot getting it out
and I needed
the shot –
This was a
real problem
 Mid project review (after pre-production)
I’d say that I luckily did not face too many of these issues
and I was glad that I had backup plans, I think that worked
well, I did have some issues before filming in the research
weeks where I had so much to do that I had to use a lot of
easter to catch up but so time management was a big issue –
another thing was when it came to research weeks I spent so
much time focusing on my topic research that I sort of ran out
of time for genre and convention research so I had to do most
of that in the easter holidays, as well as my planning based
off of all my research.

End of Project Review (after filming and editing)

I did face a few problems from my list – I did add a few of
them to the list whilst they were being faced for example,
leaving things in shot – I didn’t really think I had any
equipment to leave in shot which was very stupid to not think
of. I was also running quite low on time and did not have any
more time to reshoot those kinds of things. I faced most of
the problems on the list but some really were only on a small
scale…