The editing on our three minute wonder has been progressing well over the past week and the group has been putting in a great many long hours and putting back a lot of sugar (for energy; needs must!) in order to get the best results.
Well, today all that hard work was put to the test in the formative screening with our course tutor, our course-mates and ex-controller of BBC docs Jeremy Gibson scrutinising our work; and I am so happy to say that we passed and did pretty well.
Nothing too brutal or unexpected was said, perhaps, in part because it is so difficult to criticise your colleagues work but I think that everyone liked it.
I have rung our contributor Julie Sammels to ask for a photo of her family before the tragic day at Whitsand Bay and she has agreed to provide one and the main critique was that we needed to ‘pack’ the ‘Whitsand story’ in the programme with some effective music and more close ups to really bring a hefty emotional punch into the story.
All in all not too bad; just need to finish the mountain of other work for Unit 120 & 130 before next Thursday, rewrite a script and think of a concept to pitch to TwoFour on 24th January! The prize for the best pitch is work experience with the TwoFour development team in London; how awesome would that be?!
Off now to continue work on Media Law; the Eastenders programme makers managed to upset a lot of people last New Year’s Eve with the ‘cot-death & baby-snatch storyline.’ Nearly ten-times more people complained than I have words to write in the essay addressing the legal and ethical implications of that episode!
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