I worked on Mother Succa as a solo media practitioner. I think the most important attributes of solo work include planning ahead, time management and discipline. Planning ahead for pre-production, production and post-production ensures that you are prepared and confident in your work. I think I could have improved in planning ahead for pre-production – other than having a rough guide of interview question prepared, I didn’t organise a schedule with my interviewee, rather we just filmed when she had some free moments and on the days of her market stalls. Due to this, I felt as though I missed quite a bit of narrative that I was initially aiming for when I wrote my synopsis and treatment.  That being said, I was able to still gather quite a large amount of footage in the end. However, I felt like I wasn’t able to use a lot of it due to it not being to the standard that I would have preferred. I also put this down to not preparing enough in pre-production and envisioning the shots I wanted to take and so I wasn’t confident enough during production.

I’ve always been quite good with my time-management and I feel as though that goes hand-in-hand with discipline as well. I was more prepared when it came to post-production and had a set timeline for when I wanted/needed certain parts to be done by and I feel as though I stuck to it well. I find solo work easier sometimes as you can always rely on yourself to get things done in a timely manner, however, there were instances where I thought it would be nice to be collaborating instead. Particularly when doing technical things that I wasn’t as confident in such as mixing sound or colour grading on Premier Pro. I also think it’s nice to collaborate to have a chance to bounce ideas of each other to create a better project. For this reason, I appreciated the feedback we were required to give each other in class as it offered insights that I missed or was also questioning but needed it confirmed by someone else. Overall though, I think I’m quite a competent solo media practitioner but I will definitely strive to be a better planner for future projects.