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So far – roughly hallway through my journey of making “The Ballad of a Psychopath” – I have
faced, thankfully, no major problems that have drastically taken their toll on the production as
a whole. However, in my natural style things have gone far from completely swimmingly. This is
mainly due to, as I have mentioned in my recent vlog entries, I became too focused on
certain aspects to my research rather than following the guidelines for how I should be
spending my time, this caused me to go down some seemingly endless rabbit holes
surrounding the psyche of Serial Killers as opposed to other equally important factors such as
techniques for instance. That being said, once I was able to identify that I was becoming
slightly overwhelmed with the research for my production, I was able to gather feedback on
how I should alter my website and findings. This is because, I had actually found incredibly
important points that I could use in my production but it was, in reflection of my head at the
time, completely illogically set out essentially just put on my website in one big mess. But, once
I gained feedback from my Teacher’s, I was able to spend a vast amount of spare time
organising my research and making sure that it was all relevant to my project. Whilst this took a
large amount of time, I am very happy with how the situation has turned out because of how
deep my research explores the themes of “The Ballad of a Psychopath”, so ultimately even
though it appeared as if I was never going to get it completed in time for filming my project, I
was able to do just that.
End of Project Review
Now that I have completed my Final Major Project for this two year course of Creative Media
Production, I can thankfully say that – despite how stressful producing this project proved at
times – I faced no drastic problems that caused the production to come to a halt or have
diminished quality. That being said there were some minor problems that I encountered during
the filming/editing of “The Ballad of a Psychopath” and as I could’ve predicted, they mainly
revolved around the lack of a sufficient microphone. Whilst I managed to rid the audio of most
of the distortion captured in the original recordings, the remanence of it can vaguely be
heard in the final product, which is incredibly disheartening, even if most of the audience will
be likely to not even pick up on it. Another problem with audio that I faced – as mentioned in
detail during the vlogs I conducted during the production process of my film – was that
because of my tendency to want to improvise lines on set and only use the script as a rough
guideline, I forgot to note down the changes so that for shot reverse shots the lines would be
the same, meaning that they would cut perfectly in the final edit. However, as a result of my
ignorance towards dialogue, when I began the edit there was one specific scene that the
lines between the shots changing were different and ultimately each character’s actions
were different. The only way to solve this – unfortunately – was to cut out some long periods of
shots changing and just keep them on one perspective; whilst it works it is frustrating.
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