My First Movie Maybe My Last

This year i got a chance to make a documentary for the Durban Film Fest. This was my first time making any kind of film that was going to be viewed by other people other than my family because i'm only use to recording family events. I was excited and i was looking forward to doing this ever since i heard about it at the start of the year. i was not there the day we got the brife and the day that groups were picked but i was in a group with Sanle Naomi and lu and they had picked to do Classical. I wouldn't have picked it but since i was not there i had no say in the matter. I as soon as i found out ideas started popping up in my mind of how i would like it to look but i couldn't have it my because i was in a group so i needed to hear the others ideas and then share mine but then we said that the final layout would be chosen later on. We moved onto the research which we all did. Now it was time to get people interview and lucky for me I knew someone who teaches music and she was very much into her classical music. Mrs Pat Stead was her name and she was my old school music teacher from VCA a school in Durban North. She gave us some insight. Now it was almost time to start shooting and the most unlike thing happened my loving mother forced me to take a week off and rest because she could see that i was stressed out and about to brake down because there were so many things that still needed to be done. During that week i kept in contact with the group but there were not happy with the fact that i wasn't coming in but i was still able to do my part. when i got back i needed to get back on the ball because i a few days time we had to show our finding. We showed our findings and we found out that we still needed to do more research but there was no time so we were forced to split the work Lu and Naomi would do more research Sanle would do the poster and the dvd cover and I would carry on trying to find more interviews. Shooting day came and i asked Naomi to accompany me to do the shoot so she can ask the questions and i would work with the camera and since we were using our own camera we had more shooting days than the other groups al the shooting days were fine beside for the one were Naomi and Lu showed up drunk. I wanted to kill them but thankfully i didn't because i need them and luckily the shoot was outside so no one could smell them. The time for editing and the troubles that come with it had come we struggled to get the Videos into the Macs so i found a friend of mine that had editing software on his computer but i knew that i had to find a way to get it onto the Macs because if didn't we would never finish in time. After a week I was able to find a way to get the Videos on to the Macs with the help of my teacher for Vega but we only had a week to edit so the final layout had to be chosen right there and than. we finished editing the morning of show day. We went and watched our movies go up and i started noticing mistakes that we had over looking and we paid the price for it. but for whats worth i had fun and i enjoyed doing it and maybe in a few years time i would try again.