Seeing as our documentary idea has now formed around the idea of how a football team is able to cope with the hurdles that accompany Covid-19, it is only fitting that our postproduction processes themselves have taken a hard hit on that front. However, we have thankfully managed to pull together as a group and come up with new ways to go through the stages we would usually go through had we been able to make this film normally.
One of the main aims for our group that we wanted to enforce was the ability for everyone in the group to be able to share their opinion based off the footage that was obtained. How we originally wanted to do this was have our camera man upload all of the clips that they obtained at the shoot to a google drive, so that we could all then go home and watch through the clips on our own devices. This unfortunately did not prove to work as our camera man did not have strong a enough internet connection to upload all of the clips. What we did instead was we had to have the camera man go through all of the clips themselves and select what he thought were the best ones, cut them down to a length of time that could be easily uploaded, and then the rest of our group would be able to see that obtained footage and clarify whether or not they are happy with it. Whilst this did prove to be a tricky process, I am still grateful that we were able to at least see the final footage as a group before we put it into the final artefact itself. One useful thing that did come from doing this was that we realised that we didn’t have enough footage of the team actually playing football. This is something that we could have easily missed had it all been reviewed by one person alone.
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