I felt that the filming of the performance for my video went very well. The above image is taken from when I filmed the initial time lapse within the field, I took three time lapses a different points of the morning as it started off being quite misty. I was pleased with the final time lapse that I took as the mist cleared and I was able to film the sun coming out, which when fast forwarded I feel will be quite effective. I found my storyboard that I had created to be invaluable as it really guided me in the direction of the video, and how I was best to film, from what angle and what shot I wanted to capture. Equally, the shooting schedule really helped me to keep organised and was important as I knew exactly what I was supposed to be doing at each time of the day and I was able to mostly keep to the timings of the shooting schedule. I was happy to have gotten what I feel is enough footage to make up the performance element of my video, and I felt that the landscape/ back ground of the video looked very good, and the time of the morning meant that I was able to get a good variety of lighting within my shots, casting shadows on the artist and creating the bleaching effect that I intended to capture.
The biggest challenge that I faced was definitely moving the organ onto the field, the organ was moved out of the house on a cart and then rolled onto the field but this took a fair amount of time to manoeuvre! Moreover, I wanted to use lots of little candles on the surface of the organ to create a romantic effect, and make the prop more interesting. I was unable to do this as the wind was too strong on the day, and the candles were being constantly blown out - therefore I had to remove all of the candles, although luckily this was a minor issue. I also found it difficult to capture certain shots that I had storyboarded, I was unable to change from being in and out of focus whilst filming as it was slightly too sunny for the camera to allow me to do this, this was disappointing as I had hoped to shift certain shots from out of focus to in focus. Overall, however filming went very well, I was able to capture the majority of the shots that I wanted too, the weather was very good (thankfully!), meaning that i was able to film the sequence and eventually all of the different elements came together, and I am very excited to plan the narrative elements of my video to see how they will fit together.
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