'MISSING CAMERA' | ISSUES WITH FCP

- While creating a short film documentary, there were a series of technical issues that I would like to discuss...

1.) 'MISSING CAMERA' - This was the problem that put me in the worst situation possible - for an unexplained reason.
- I had already organised time, created schedules, filmed and even uploaded, when to my horror I found that 11 clips of Raveena had been deleted. There was no way of retrieving these clips again.
Things that I tried to fix the problem:
- Contacted my school I.T dep. where we tried to trace the footage that had been filmed on a school camera
- Searched endlessly on the school's backup computer for missing files
- Googled methods of retrieving files that had been deleted
- My school I.T department tried their best to help me, however even the experts could not explain or even understand the reasoning behind this.
- SO, after a lot of tears, frustration and increased stress levels, I had only one option left. This was to refilm the deleted scenes. Of course, I did not have enough time to re-film every scene as perfectly as before, but I absolutely tried my best, so I can only ask that, when you watch my documentary please keep this unfortunate situation in mind!

2.) FCP MEMORY and CRASHING
The overall process of my editing and film - creating process was very slow. The Mac that I was using had hardly any memory which meant that I was constantly experiencing a series of long 30 minute, crashes - hindering me from doing my work. Of course, initially, I resulted in putting my time into my blog, however this was not always a possibility - especially with the upcoming deadline!

Here is a perfect example of the rainbow coloured waiting game