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An idea. 

Although I am very pleased with how the edit turned out, and the lovely dynamic we cultivated in our group wherein everyone was willing to help out at every stage, I wonder if perhaps it would have been useful to each edit our own individual versions of the film.

I say this, because in a group project you naturally end up doing the tasks you’re best at. I ended up with cinematography and editing. Throughout editing, we made plans to come together for the fine edit so that everyone could learn the basics of colour grading and fine tuning a film to bring it to the next level. This however never ended up happening because we simply ran out of time. This is a shame because it was a missed learning experience. As I didn’t add in the elements of sound design I also missed out on that learning experience. Further to this, one of the greatest outcomes of seeing all the other groups’ works was that I got to see many different styles of editing – films put together in ways I would never have thought to approach the same material. Editing can make all the difference. If we had each edited our own versions of the same material, much like we saw in the first film assignment for this class, we would have ended up with films that were completely stylistically and structurally different. This would have been fascinating, and further, it would have provided everyone with the opportunity to build upon their editing skills, not just those who already had strengths in this area.