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Overall, I personally liked this unit the best as all of the work was split between the three of us so it wasn't as stressful as the previous units and I got to do what I liked the best which operating the camera. I really liked working with my group because we get along well and could do the work efficiently.
For the part that I would change would be making sure my alarm was on, so I wouldn't have slept over on the first day of the shoot and would have brought a spare battery which would have helped in a sense that we could have filmed without worrying about running out of battery and maybe could have filmed more as our time with Kayleigh was limited (she had places to be). Also, I would have made sure that the GoPro was fully charged in the morning (I charged it a day before the shoot but it must have turned on in the case) so we would have more than one video to work with. Other thing that I'd change would be to nit have acted like a child when I found the zoom button that actually worked and helped to get smoother zoom and because when I found it I got so excited and wanted to use it more and more and the worst part I would forget to hold the shot still for a bit longer. Some establishing shots were filmed on handheld mostly because of the lack of time to set up the tripod as we filmed during the weekend and both Jess and I had to get to work on time. One more thing that we didn't think about while filming was talking so there's a lot of shots where we would be talking in the background about the shots we might need and talking to the contributors. One thing that I would have liked to change but there was nothing we could have done about it was the lighting in the Rochester Sports Centre because there's a big difference between the colours in the footage from the skatepark and the footage form the sports centre due to bad lighting, the only thing about it that was in our control was that we could have gotten the LED light for our interview with Jasmine. Also, a thing we learned is that you definitely need to export all of your footage after the day of shooting because we ran out of SD card memory and Jess had to go and export it as fast as she could leaving us with 15 minutes of memory left. In a way it kind of helped in the sense that we only filmed what we really needed for our documentary. 
Overall, I enjoyed this unit because I wasn't forced to do what I was uncomfortable with which is directing and got to operate the camera which I really like. I loved working with both Jess and Lauren because it was very organised and the environment on the 'set' was really nice and friendly.
Probably the most stressful thing about our documentary was structuring it because we had two things that are hard to link together, I think it would have been easier if it was only skateboarding or only roller derby. Also even though we were on schedule with most of our work, we still needed more time for editing and, honestly I think, if we had more time the final result would have been a bit better. Although, I'm not disappointed in what we ended up with, I know that if we had more time (at least one more week) we could have done way better.     

Our film's development: 

Sync pull was basically only the interviews one after the other with almost no sequences except for the beginning and the end montage. 

In our rough cut we basically only had the sync interviews and to help us to structure the film we used black videos and typed what should be in it's place at the end.



In the end the sequences were added, but although it was suggested we decided not to add commentary as we thought it wouldn't really work on our film and decided to only add some facts and a transition from skateboarding to roller derby by using the text on the screen. We also added some music which was really hard to find as the music we would have loved to use aren't royalty free and the ones that are would be too slow or too heavy for the film, in the end we found some on Youtube's audio library (please add this to the video discription when uploading to the TVP youtube channel to avoid copyright issues: Breakdown - Take the Lead by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution licence (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)
Source: http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/index.html?isrc=USUAN1100796
Artist: http://incompetech.com/ )
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