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.

Prepare to Pitch

Coming up with ideas aren't always easy and then when you do find an idea it's making sure it fits the brief.

For our new unit we have to make a 3 minuter wonder which is normally a profile about a certain person that has an interesting story to tell. My previous ideas that I have mentioned in seminars wouldn't work for this brief as they would need more screen time for the stories to work. Therefore my pitch was a tad rushed and I think because I didn't feel 100% confident with the idea it was hard to sell it to others.

However, there were some really brilliant ideas which made it hard to decide what would work, but we had to make sure it fit the brief. After much discussion we managed to assign ourselves roles within groups, which was tough but gave us a chance to work as a whole course.