Production - File Organisation

 Here are the ways in which we organised our files which made our editing and production process a lot simpler - completed by Giorgio and Carrick

    

Advantages of our system of organisation

• All the footage available in one place
• Accessible to all members of the team

Disadvantages of our system of organisation

• No labels to determine which footage is good or bad
• No thumbnails
• Everything very disorganised

Advantages of using Google Drive

• All our group members were able to access all the video files without having to uploading all the videos to a DVD drive and downloading it from the DVD drive
• Automatically updates when someone deletes, uploads, or renames a file
• Allows for any file type to be uploaded
• Compatible between mobile phones and computers

Disadvantages of using Google Drive

• Must have internet to access the files
• No offline back up
• Can only take up to 15gb of storage compared to DVD drives

This type of file organisation benefits us as we are typically organised when we are disorganised. This means that the style of disorganisation best suits us. Having all the resources compiled in one place is very beneficial to us as it is accessible to us at all times when we have internet. 

Reflection:

I believe that this will help us in our objective of completing the project as it allows us to go through all the footage and contribute feedback to Giorgio (our editor) so he can take it all into consideration. The ease of access to all the resources is imperative in ensuring that all tasks are completed effectively and efficiently. The organisation may look awful and disorganised. However, that's the way we are. That's how we operate. We are able to easily find and organise ourselves when everything is disorganised. I'm very happy with the methodology we decided to use to organise our files. Something I found that I did not like or found difficult was trying to get Google Drive to revert back to showing the image of the file rather than the name. Other than that I'm very happy with how we organised our files.