The end is so close yet so far. Yesterday we spent the entire day indoors. Writing and re-writing (mostly re-writing) the drafts of our features. We also read and re-read one another’s features.
It was crunch time, time to make two weeks of running around Joburg looking for sources, being put on hold and having our emails pied over and over again. It was a day of reckoning, a day to do what you could with what you had. A day to take in all the criticism with your sensitivities set aside.
The week that was saw us trying desperately trying to fill the gaping potholes in the tarred road of our stories. Yesterday was about finding the nearest bucket of something to fill that hole no matter what or in some cases off-ramping just before the hole onto another path completely.
This morning we came in bright and early with one stressor put firmly behind us, ready to tackle another – Multimedia production. We have less than 48 hours to put together the multimedia elements that will accompany our features. I have not been looking forward to this part of the game.
Being a person who likes photo’s I originally intended to do a photo essay but I realised a very long time ago that my topic does not allow for that and I just didn’t want to deviate from my topic to accommodate my initial plans.
I now have an alternate plan – one that has to come together very quickly. I can only hope it does, let me get to it.
Write. Snap. Click. 