Robbery

On Monday morning our media teachers arrived in the media department to find that all our new Apple Macs had been stolen. The thieves had broken in and stolen all of our computers, cameras and light kits (except for a couple that were on weekend release).

This is going to severely hinder our project as our deadline was supposed to be at the end of the week for our music videos, but now that the Macs with the project files with them have been stolen, we have to work from old back ups. This means that not only do we lose a week or two worth of editing, but it's going to be hard to restore the back ups when the replacement Macs get here. It is unlikely we will be able to use them after half term as they need to be connected to our server and programs such as Final Cut Express need to be installed. Even when this happens, it is unlikely that everything will run smoothly and this will make our videos and ancillary products much harder to complete.

As soon as this happened our teachers were thinking of ways not to hinder our coursework. Our deadline has now been pushed back until the 8th March for our music videos and ancillary products, which gives us more time and allows for errors. Given that we'd lost our Macs, editing was out of the picture so we were told to use our lesson time to focus on our ancillary projects, but even those are extremely hard to do on such old software. For now, we will have to do as much work as we can at home and hope that after half term things will improve.