10/12 Tutorial

Though I had made Chris aware about my times of work the day before, he could not rearrange the times of my group’s tutorial, which resulted in me having to leave early. It would have been very helpful to have an earlier time slot, but as such he could not make any changes.

Danayet said that the sound needs to start undergoing the process, which I told her that if she met up with myself and had meetings with prior to the previous, the process would of already begun. She taken offence to this, which I can understand why, however needs to admit the errors in place. I politely told her that the group’s organisation has been a complete and utter shamble, an example is that with less 7 days to go, a complete rough edit still has not been made. Taken further offence she replied with comments about my absence at shoots, however I corrected her on the matter that the most common reason for my absence for shoots is due to the lack of notice provided for a shoot. Politely I explained that my commitments will differ from yours and the groups, however the group can make shoots in short notice and I cannot. Being stunned by my responses she discontinued the conversation as she seemed to understand the errors made with organisation.

Moving forward, Chris questioned what was the next step and Danayet asked for me to come on Sunday at 1pm to pick up an updated version of the edit. By a miracle, I had decided to bring in my sound hard drive, which nobody had asked me to bring incase there was any files I could obtain from the group. TS made me aware that he has not had a hard drive to work from, which means he has and will only be able to edit from the mac computer that he is stationed on. I did not want to bring up my concerns to this workflow as I believe this will deepen the increasing separation that has become very apparent between the group and myself. I asked instead that he copy all the files over to my hard drive, so I could begin sound editing for the scenes he has already edited together. He does plan to make changes, but we will see how everything goes. Danayet also asked for myself to come in on Monday at 10am to review the progress of the project altogether, which I think is a brilliant idea. It would be great to have as many people present whilst sound editing to get as many suggestions as possible. I agreed and said these times will be fine. I haven’t been in contact with Emily or Louise in a little while, which I am sure they occupied with other modules being due in soon and if there is anything they would like to contribute that they will contact myself or the group.

I would like to come into the edit suite tomorrow after work and start working on the sound design of this project. Completing the sound design of my other project has provided me with more confidence to sound design in Pro Tools, which I think will be a big bonus in completing the group’s soundtrack. Though progression is being made, I am concerned that not enough consideration has been made for sound and that the little time the group has offered for sound designing is appalling. I hope that the soundtrack will be complete before our presentation, however we will see what happens from here on out.

Tom is also up for accompanying myself tomorrow in the edit suite, which will be a big help towards the project. Members of the group can choose to interact in a negative and unprofessional manner, but my main concern is this project and that will come first no matter what.