The Video

Working in a group is difficult and proved to be most challenging when doing the video task. I worked in a three with Larisa and Diana and although we are good friends we found it very hard to agree on anything with each other. We did all agree on presenting the video as a news report that would typically appear on say the six o’clock news.

The topic of the news story was going to look at how the recession had increased the number of European tourists visiting London. It was in fact an investigative piece as we weren’t actually sure if this was the case. There were no news stories about it at the time but we had all noticed the sudden large number of Europeans wondering around London and thought it was probably because the pound was weak.

So we ventured into central with our camera and firstly had a trial run to see if we actually had a story. We asked some tourists their reasons for choosing to come to London and it did seem like the recession had a big part to play.

We were a very organised group and planned ourselves well. We got many interviews with tourists, a stall keeper who catered to tourists and we also managed to get an interview with a representative of the London tourism centre who presented us with facts and figures.

We also divided the work between us quite well although I felt some were not pulling their weight unless pushed.

I was the director and filmed everything without a tripod. All the steady shots were achieved just hand-held which was really hard work. Larisa was the news reporter and Diana did the voiceover.

Editing I found to be really hard, Imovie which we were not taught how to use, was really difficult to use. It took us a while to get the hang of it and was quite frustrating. We had far too much footage, we had around 40mins worth so a lot of time was spent editing to try and put our piece together.

I was happy with the finished product, we all put a lot of time and effort into it and I think I learned a lot from doing the task. Planning is essential, you have to have a lot of patience, always be positive and technology will almost always let you down at some point.

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