Entry 7: Constraints

One of the biggest constraints for this project especially at the moment would be time, this as been something that we have tried our very best to work around but have still always found it difficult to keep up with all the different aspects of this project. It would have helped if we arranged a meeting with Alicia earlier, as it would put our ideas into place a lot earlier on in the project giving us more time and freedom to film/edit. We are now in a position where time is limiting us and making us make decisions that we need more time to think about, for example the concept of the video is something we really need to think about as a group and decide whats best/what will work, this is why meeting Alicia earlier on in the production would of made things easier for both sides.

Another constraint is communication, as I see Alice and Ellie almost every day it's easy to talk to each other about how the process is going, however our client lives far away from us making it difficult to meet in person again (which would be really useful as our first meeting went so well) and discuss all the important aspects that we need to know in order to keep up with the pace of the project which has ben going well for us so far. Our only way of communicating with everyone involved is through a Facebook group chat we've all set up which is helpful, but when it comes to filming it would help to know who is going to be there as we discussed actors being involved and we can only contact them through Alicia, which again doesn't help as she's not in easy place to reach when we need her.

One other constraint is finding an idea to settle on, whilst creating the mind map i realised we have so many ideas which is great because it gives us options but on the other hand we don't have time to ponder on too many different ideas because at this point where time is already a constraint we need to pick one idea and stick with it as we're running out of time and the last thing we want is to get near the filming stage and still not have a clue what we want to do, to fix this we will need to talk to each other and settle on on definite idea that everyone is happy with, the sooner we do this the quicker we can get the filming side done which is our priority at the moment.