The Weston Hospice Care Project

The Weston Hospice Care Project







My role on this project is editor. It is my responsibility to edit together a finished film meeting the client’s requirements.
Having been given a brief schedule of the filming requirements – I needed to make sure Kate and Aleicia would get plenty of pictures and cut away shots during their filming days.
Having been told very little about what the project involves and what is required I decided to go along to the first filming day – to get an idea of what I will be editing.


The First Filming Day.

We arrived at The Hospice at 9.30 ready to set the equipment up and begin filming. The aims of the day were to film ‘The Training Programme’. This involved filming the speakers talks and the volunteers listening and interacting.




For the shoot we had two cameras.

Camera One was on a tripod and its main focus was to film the speakers.






Camera Two was hand-held and its main aim was to get a variety of shots of the volunteers, speakers and general cut aways.




As they were three of us in the crew Aleicia, Kate and I we decided to take it in turns and rotate the jobs. My first task was Sound this meant I was responsible for ensuring the sound was being recorded correctly and to a good standard. At first we did have a few problems with the sound as there was a slight humming noise, at first we thought this could be down to a faulty cable – but we soon discovered it was the headphones. To resolve this issue we decided to use my Ipod headphones for the rest of the day to monitor the sound.






My second task was to film using the hand-held camera. Knowing a lot of cut away shots were required for the edit I tired to get as many possible shots of people listening, people moving their hands, writing, etc. I then decided to go off and get some outside shots of the garden and grounds.
I then moved onto the tripod camera, this job was o.k. I just had to film the speaker, which didn’t involve much I just needed to ensure I followed them when they walked around.

During the breaks Aleicia, Kate and I went around the hospice filming different shots. As we were unable to film patients a lot of the filming involved filming empty rooms or using some of us within the shots.

After lunch I went back to using the hand-held camera it was decided I would use the hand-held camera to film the tour rather than using a tripod. We thought this would look more effective, and give the feel the viewers are part of the tour rather than observing it.


I found this to be one of my best work experience days I feel this was because I had a lot more involvement and hands on tasks. I enjoyed working with Kate and Aleicia and feel we worked well as a team.

I would give this work experience 8 out of 10.