Filming

Today, I completed my filming. However, I had to fully change my idea because of the weather. I was all set to go to my location, a small beach at Barmston, not far from Bridlington, but upon looking out of my window this morning I was met with the sight of more snow!

I decided that my beach idea would not work well with snow, but I was determined to get my filming done today, considering the deadline and my plan. As a compromise, I went back to my first idea, filming at the Humber Bridge Country Park. This was because I thought a snowy scene would suit the woodland area, and I also hoped to find a variety of wildlife there.

My brother, Alex, acted as my camera operator for most of the shots. I set up each shot and told him how to do it so that the shots would look how I wanted them to. I filmed the location and wildlife shots myself, and I also set up and filmed some of the shots I was in because I found it embarrassing to lip sync in front of him.

I didn't get as many wildlife shots as I had hoped, as there was not a great deal of wildlife to film in the woodland. There was a failed attempt at filming a squirrel, but I managed to get some good footage of birds flying and a robin perched on a hedge.

Although I couldn't follow the storyboard I had made for the beach location, I tried to use some of the same shots and camera movements as I had planned, such as the tracking shots.

Also, due to the cloudy sky, I was unable to film the sunset for the end of my video. I was quite disappointed about this, and also I had been hoping for a blue sky to film clouds moving across it and maybe get some aeroplane trails too. However, I think the filming went fairly well despite all of this.

The camera we used for filming was my own Sony camcorder, using a miniDV tape to record the footage digitally, and we also used our dad's tripod. I also took my digital camera along to take some still shots to use for my subsidiary products. I took some photos around the location, and I got my brother to take some of me as well.