Developing film - 26/09/17

Today I developed black and white film in the dark room using no light what so ever not even a slight red light like when you develop Photograms, so there is no chance of the film being exposed and ruining the images that I captured. being the first time developing the film it was a bit scary due to the fact that we had to take the film out of the container, cut it, place in a swirl holder to then place in the light tight container to then be able to develop the images, whilst all in complete darkness in a small tight room. I managed to successfully transfer the film to the light tight container fairly easily which made me then question whether or not I did it right, but I had done (thankfully). The most time consuming part was developing the film it self with all the specific amounts of developing fluid and water mix and rotating the container while the mixture was in the container every 30 seconds for 11 minutes straight.
Then poring out the mixture and then poring in the 'stop' mix for another 30 seconds to then pore out again, then finally poring in the 'fix' mixture for 4 minutes while moving the liquid around in the container to make sure all of the film is covered. After all that its then the washing phase where you pore water into the container flip back and forth 5 times pore out and then repeat for a 10 times and 20 times to make sure that the film is all clean and ready to dry. You then take the film out of the container and then off of the swirl that holds the film, then you take off the majority of the liquid on it with your fingers and then place the holding clamps onto the film at either end to then be able to place in the dryer for around 10 minutes so that there is no liquid on the film at the end. After the film is dry you can then cut and place into the see through holding sleeves and there is your developed film