And the year comes to an end!

Final screening now has arrived and our last practical work handed in.

With the last stages of tweaking it was not as easy as I had thought. I had to do post sound due to us not having anyone taking on this role and as director you soon learn, you have to be a jack of all trades. It was stressful but after getting the hang of it I managed to improve the sound...probably only slightly but I learnt a new skill.

The final screening was enjoyable as we just got to watch the documentary in full with the support from the editor to finalise the last bits of the doc and the cameraman who was teaching me Pro tools it became a finished piece.

With the BMX doc I enjoyed working on that project, my footage wasn't obvious to the audience who had shot what. This to me was really good feedback as I wanted to make sure I could match Tim's footage as his experience with cameras is much better than mine. Overall a positive experience and a nice end to a long and hard year!!

Crit screening

The final crit screening of the course. This time I was more nervous because it relied on me to whether our course leader thought we had delivered what we had pitched. Watching it through, I tried to gauge what people thought but you can never tell.

When the lights came back on, I was glad to hear the feedback. The feedback was positive and the documentary was at a stage where the feedback was very specific on what needed to be done. The relief on my face must have shown. For my first time directing I was nervous but am happy that it's finally paid off. Working alongside the editor to get the last phase of this work complete has been hard but to hear what needed to be done I knew it was going to be a day just tweaking the last pieces.