For our NHS Project, me and my group got issued the Becoming a Member brief. Becoming a Member in terms of the hospital is to promote people to join the Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust. The Trust aims to be the safest organisation in the NHS through providing safe, clean and personal care to every patient.
At the beginning after reading the brief, we came up with a lot of ideas that we could use, wrote them down, and came up with a few more. But there was one particular idea that we had our heart set on. In the advert we wanted to include a daydream in which one or more of us appeared in, and starred in the clip. In the daydream we’d see one of us suddenly going in to a daydream, thinking about all of the different benefits that would appeal to the people of Salford. Following on from our chosen idea, we went on to filling out all the relevant pre-production material for our filming. As a group we allocated the different pre-production sheets equally across the 4 of us. We successfully completed the pre-production of the project and uploaded it all to the blog.
Before we could start filming we had to contact the communications department of the hospital and arrange times and staff for our filming. I sent them an email personally and they replied back to me with a suitable time and day. On the day of filming we were very prepared for the 2 hour shooting session and the staff who participated with us was really helpful and understood the message we were trying to get across. Before we started shooting, the 4 of us were speaking to the receptionist who was helping us and was appearing in our shots, and she encouraged us to actually sing up to become a member of the Foundation Trust. This was such a good move because once we were signed up; it would help us have more understanding and how much involvement we could have.
One of the issues that we encountered while filming was that the hospital were actually in the process of building work being done outside of where we wanted film, so we had to discuss certain shots and shoot them from another angle and place, as we couldn’t have this building work in the shots. We overcame this and we got better shots than we planned so it came good in the end. We also had to make sure we had enough filming to work with when it came to editing, so we shot a few of the same shots to ensure this.
The two members of staff from the hospital that helped us at the hospital were really encouraging in what we were doing and they gave us ideas, and suggested things we could do that we hadn’t already done. They also suggested certain camera angles that would look great on camera.
We finished filming after about an hour and a half; we had all the footage we needed and was really happy with what we had done in that time. We went back to college and looked through the shots once they had been put on the computer system. The last thing we had to do now was create a project, import all the movie files and start editing!
Me and Mark from our group were in charge of editing the footage in Adobe Premiere. I feel like i took more control or putting the footage together at first and then i stepped back and let mark have a go with it. He made a new project and made his own version and it turned out that his version was great. For the one he made we got help from the technician in our college called Chris, who helped us put some after effects on the video.
There were a few issues with members of the group not being in we met the requirements as best as we could and pulled it together in the end and we are pleased with the final project.
