Although I have questioned my feelings for SSP frequently throughout the progression of this module, I understand its uniqueness and now am able to appreciate the distinctive qualities that some SSP’s have. In retrospect to the process, I am astounded at my new and growing knowledge for the subject and am satisfied that I have come to terms with a topic that at first sights seemed somewhat overwhelming.

Having never created a film before, I felt added pressure to a module that I also had never encountered. However, I feel this was no hindrance as I wanted to use SSP in a way I felt it was meant for. Due to its distinctness, I was compelled to learn the ways of SSP through a medium that would highlight its qualities and for my chosen ‘performance’ film was the obvious choice.

With hindsight, an element of the film that I would now rethink is the assistance of music alongside the story telling. At times I feel it distracts the audience whilst restricting certain stories from coming across in the way they should have done.

Overall, I am pleased with my effort and feel I have portrayed a worthy SSP through a medium that was brand new to me.

After making slight changes to our piece, we felt it best to start by piecing together the stories we had already collected and began by filming the footage to assist them. I was pleasantly surprised at first sight as we had not lost as many stories as I had first worried we would have. Having gathered the stories and footage together we found our film so far to be just less than ten minutes, giving us a half finished film. Taking to the streets once more we gathered our last stories, incorporating the filming alongside this as our deadline was fast approaching.

I was pleased with the stories we had so far collected however, many of our stories were short snippets into personal insights so taking it upon myself, I emailed my lecturers in the hope of interviewing a number of them to assist our piece. Having heard back from one I was happy to find out which place his story referred to and eager to incorporate this into our film. His story was our most detailed and included great personal reflection amongst its historical context, however we had to condense his narrative as he gave us over twelve minutes of audio. We managed to cut this to eight minutes although in reflection, I feel this could have been shorter. I suggested to my group that as it is our longest story, we break it up into three sections, starting with it, having its detail in the middle and finish with it as one of our last pieces. Although this may have detracted from some of its detail, I feel there was enough of it to be appreciated and relevant to our film. My group however, did not agree and we left the film in one piece.

After piecing our stories together and seeing them play through our film, my appreciation for SSP has grown.