Gaza: A war Crime?

Jordan was a great experience. I had not travelled there before, so it was nice to see the country while doing something constructive. I’m looking to get my film online soon so it should be available for everyone to see.

There was a huge hiccup – We lost 80 – 90% of our footage when our hard – Drive died. We learnt a lesson – ALWAYS BACK UP your material. I know, I know, I know but we weren’t think about that – and I know i’m not the first or the last person to do it. I will never do it again – that is for sure.

I have recently passed my documentary onto Jeremy Bowen the BBC Middle East Editor. He has reported from the War Zones in Lebanon, Palestine, Israel & Jordan. He has seen war, death and destruction – I really valued his opinion about my work and am even considering on doing a short documentary on him – He has a lot of interesting and captivating stories!

Jeremy Bowen commenting on my work:

Just watched your film. I think you have done a good job, obviously worked very hard on it, and I liked your conclusion. Script is pretty good, so is delivery, and you have excellent confident presence in your piece to camera (in fact you could have done more!)

I could see how you were suffering from lack of pictures in places, but you told me why that happened.  You assembled a wide range of sync, which was nicely selected and interesting.

You’re at the beginning of the journey (lucky you) so of course you have some things to learn if you want eventually to be a BBC reporter. An exec producer would ask you whether your sync could have included a stronger defence of Israel’s position. But you have every right to feel happy about what you’ve done, and good about the future.  .

keep in touch…

Jeremy

~ by sophieghaziri on November 5, 2009.