Role Allocation

When composing my project last year I worked in a group as opposed to my current project where I decided to work alone. As last year there was two of us in my group we decided to share the roles equally. We both had the skills to be able to work the camera effectively in order to produce our documentary. Therefore we both acted as camera person. However since we chose to produce a documentary one of the required elements was a piece to camera or an interview including the interviewer on screen. My partner acted in this role to speak to experts and vox pops. When completing our final production we both worked together to agree on how we wanted to edit our documentary. We worked effectively together and composed a final draft that we were both happy with.

However this year it was a lot harder to work the roles as cameraperson whilst including myself on screen and be able to compose a successful documentary. In doing so I decided to enlist the help of a reporter to narrate, present, interview and act as a voiceover where it was needed. This meant that I handled the camera equipment, shot arrangements, location and interviews to ensure it all came together on screen.