25th October 2019 – Post Production

After the conclusion of filming yesterday it was imperative to get the footage backed up onto multiple storage locations as it was only stored on Tommy’s personal hard drive.  The opening stage of the edit was Tommy inputting the Meta data I had taken down on the PA notes and the information gathered was largely accurate.  Personally I would have been more than willing to do the stage of the editing process as it’s not overly challenging and something I’ve done before on previous edits.  However my pace of typing or rather lack of pace would have simply driven Tommy mad, as he is very fast and efficient when typing.  However personally I would have liked to do this stage as the editing is an area where I feel my contribution will not be overly high as it not an area of strength.  This shows that at stages of the process I should be more assertive at what tasks I feel I should contribute too, however following Tommy putting in the meta data, he then placed the interviews roughly onto the time line in the sequence he felt best.  The prospect of making a Gaelic film had been briefly discussed for our project prior to this but when listing to Mr MacKay’s interviews he was much clearly and more confident in his Gaelic answers in comparison to his English.  This lead to the decision being taken to make the documentary in Gaelic.  This was a major step change for me as it was a totally new experience for originally interview the teachers in Gaelic and spending my week in an environment where Gaelic is the common language used to converse. I was now agreeing to have the full documentary in Gaelic.  Had I been in another partnership I may not have been as easily persuaded to put so much faith in my partner but with Tommy I had full trust and faith in him to make the project just as excellently in Gaelic as in English with more of my input throughout the process.  This I found was a noticeable step change in myself from the start of the process with the Pre-Production paperwork were I micro managed the documents; I was now relaxed and confident enough to allow Tommy to edit our documentary in Gaelic.