15th November 2019 – Post Production

The experience of putting so much trust and faith in my partner to make a project in language which I have little to no understanding of has unquestionably been the most rewarding and beneficial of any stage of the process.  Through doing this I have forced myself to be more flexible and not as adverse to change and regimented planning and I have in the past I have also enjoyed the challenge of taking a step outside my comfort zone in the filming and also help with the editing of the project. While during the editing stage ultimately Tommy had the vast majority of the input I felt this was most beneficially to the finished project.  As for example when Tommy was translating the subtitles as this was so challenging he needed total silence there was no benefit to my badgering him in the edit suite.  An area of input which I really enjoyed and greatly appreciated during an early stage, being allowed to bring in was the structure and order of the questions.  As discussed in the pre-production stage the questions for the teachers was an area I put a lot of planning and thought into and I was then allowed an input into the layout and order which they appear in the finished documentary.  Overall I’m immensely proud of the completed documentary its a million miles away from the scribbles in Tommy’s note about Independence and this is project I’ve honestly really enjoyed working on and looked forward each and every day of working on it despite a lot of it being in a foreign language (A native Language foreign to most).    It has given me so much more self believe and confidence that this is the industry I not only want to work in but ultimately feel I can.