| Getting the FootageFor a class project this spring, a team of four of us decided to create an informational video with target audience of the general public. Our topic started out being "Controlling Invasive Species", but we quickly found out that this was too broad a topic for a 4 minute video. Thus, we changed the topic to "Controlling Purple Loosestrife". We spent a good portion of the day driving out to the locations to shoot and then attempting to get "quality" footage for our video. |
Lessons Learned
For future projects in which we need to capture footage, I would make the following changes:
- Double the amount of batteries you think you will need.
- Do some form of story boarding prior to going out to capture footage. This allows you to organize your shots according to filming location. We did not do that for this and had to go back to several locations again to shoot additional footage that we needed. Upon our return, we realized that the sun light did not match our earlier shots. In one case, we decided to shoot all of the footage for the area again because of concerns we had in matching the lighting of the film during the editing phase.
- If you are going to try and use the audio captured location, it is critical that the individuals in the shot have on wireless mics. Our audio capture was spotty at best and we will probably need to supplement the voices in certain cases with dubbing. This will significantly increase the overall project time.
- Always remember to press the record button (Lance).