Documentary Issues

Our group has experienced numerous issues surrounding the documentary. To start with we only had 4 members in our group meaning we all had to help one another with each role and work a lot harder in terms of carrying equipment, collaborating ideas and all in all getting the job done. This wasn't all bad however as it still allowed everyone's input to be shown in all areas so we had more minds working on one problem, having said that it also presented difficulties because if we all had different opinions on how to do something, it became very unclear and unfocused and basically 'too many chefs spoiled the broth' in certain areas and everything was a bit cluttered. We adapted well though with having less members as we all helped each other out and learnt from one another whilst never really running short on input.
Our second issue was with the Sony Z1 camera when we actually arrived in Liverpool which caused a whole world of problems. The camera worked fine for about 10 minutes worth of shooting until it kept saying it was out of battery and cut off even though the battery was apparently fully charged. We originally tried to charge the batteries again and again and try other groups but the problem kept occurring and then we realised it was the camera itself. Due to the camera cutting out when we were recording, the timecode on the tape became corrupt and meant we lost almost all of our first interview, and a number of our establishing shots as well as footage of performances which set us back quite a lot. To solve this problem we managed to get a DSLR camera of one of the other groups, which none of our team had ever used before. This meant we needed to buy SD cards and use pretty much all of the automatic settings on the camera we could which hindered some of the compositions we wanted to take originally. This also meant we had to record sound separately on the marantz as we didn't have an adapter for the XLR cable which could have created issues when syncing the video and sound in the edit. However, even with these issues we still managed to obtain decent footage and get enough content to make our documentary with due to our adaptation to the situation. We also told both Debbie and Dom as soon as these issues started to present themselves and kept them informed throughout the entire time we were on location and asked for their guidance.
All in all I think we adapted as well as we could with the issues we faced and should be able to make a solid documentary with the footage we obtained.