After presenting the piece

During the production and post-production of our 10 minute piece entitled "ropes" i have had a lot of problems with the group. I have felt like they have not been keeping me in the loop in regards to things that are happening and things that they wanted doing.

I got very aggravated with them all during the last week of editing. The main reasons for this were:

1.     I was constantly asking the Producer (Jonny Copeman) for the names of the actors so i could add the credits, but he would not send them to me.

2.     I was constantly asking the director (Ben Brown) if he wanted me to change anything or do any color correcting. to which he replied "no" every time.

It came to the point where i had to give the project over to Alice Hathaway and Ben Brown with the final picture cut on it - unexported. because the sound hadn't been finished, the credits still hadn't been sent by Jonny and i had family commitments to rush off to. 

When we presented the piece, i noticed two things, the first was that the group had failed to put my name on the credits, which considering the amount of effort i put into the piece was extremely upsetting. Secondly Ben and Alice had done some color correction without telling me about it, also the color correction they had done was done very badly and the look of the scene was ruined. This made me very angry and upset because i was constantly asking Ben Brown if there was anything he wanted me to change and he'd said no, to then go behind my back and do it anyway and do it badly, made me feel as though they had no faith in my abilities as an editor. Furthermore it was color correction on top or color correction I had already done, which I only did because Ben had originally pointed out it needed doing. Had they told me about it I would have come in and done it and made a better job of it than they did.

The scene with the color correction on it was the scene where the main character is talking to the house mate in the doorway, and in the final scene where the main character is throwing things around and there is a clip of his girlfriend up against the wall.