Today has been by far my most stressful day; nothing seemed to be going right, it started bad and got worse and worse. Firstly I was meant to meet the girls at university at 9:00am but arrived late due to traffic (I later found out this was due to a lorry blocking off my round whilst delivering barrels to my local pub, typical!) Once I arrived at university we jumped straight into editing as everyone was eager to get done and get home.
Out of Charlotte, Stacey, Hayley and myself I have the most experience when it comes to editing and when we have worked together on previous modules I have always taken the editing role. So automatically I began to try and edit the images to produce our stop motion footage. On this occasion though my editing experience wasn’t really helping me as I was using ‘Final Cut Pro’ an editing program I have never used before. I played around with the program for quite a while and every time I thought I’d cracked it another problem would appear. I enjoy editing and can become quite obsessed with getting it perfect, so for me not to be making progress was extremely frustrating! While I continued to try and figure out how to use ‘Final Cut Pro’ Hayley went across the road to print bureau as our A3 prints were ready to be collected. Although we were all at uni trying to sort out our stop motion footage, we were all very stressed and our minds weren’t really in it so I didn’t feel we were working together as I team. Everyone was feeling the pressure!
2 hours later I had got to the point where I had given up, I was beyond stressed, very tied, and stuck in a basement with no windows, whist at the same time not being able to concentrate as all I could think about was how much work I had left to do. So it was time to call in some help, so we went to ask Bex, she is an absolute genius when it comes to the technical side of Media and as it happens a pro on final cut. Bex very kindly came to our rescue and talked us through step by step what we had to do, she even wrote us step by step instructions. Did I mention she is a life saver. Once we had the instructions and we knew what to do I asked the girls if they would mind if I went home as I’d reached braking point, this didn’t go down to well. Although we were all very stressed about our workload, I had got to a point were I felt I had to leave; from the instructions Bex had given us it should have only taken another 20 to 30 mins so I didn’t feel I was leaving the girls with to much to do. If I felt they really needed me there I would have stayed. The girls weren’t very happy with my decision but at that particular moment in time my stress got the better of me.
When working so closely with a group of individuals you’re going to get moments where you don’t all agree on the same thing, this was one of them moments, but that’s just life.
Although it was a crappy day, the girls did manage to put the Stop Motion footage on to a DVD which is a good thing.
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