After last night's filming indoors, I was looking forward to shooting outside today. I rushed home after work eager to get at it. I thought this would be alot easier since I didn't have to worry about the lights as much. Since it was cloudy, I thought the light would be fairly soft and easier to manage.
Well.. I get home to find out that one of my cast members/kids has put her wardrobe in the washing machine and it is only half done...so production delay number one while we wait for it to finish and be dry (to pass the time I whined to my cast/kids about the importance of continuity). Eventually, we got underway, just in time for my neighbour to fire up his lawn mower and weed eater...not continuously mind you, just in short bursts half way through each scene. We tried to fight through it, but eventually we went on hiatus while we waited for him to finish. As a result we ended up reshooting every scene that we had already done due to the distracting noises on the audio.
On the up side, the second try went fairly smoothly since we had just completed our forced dress rehearsal...but by now the nice even cloud layer had broken up and I was getting intense sunlight and overcast conditions on a 25 second alternating schedule.
So in short, I definitely got a taste of some of the challenges of outdoor shooting in an environment beyond your control...maybe next time I'll ask all of my neighbours to leave town for the evening...I'll let you know how that goes!
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I think your video will be great. I would love to show in our bio class. The best line comes from Count Coniferous - "Poplar is the new pine". That is some good stuff.
ReplyDeleteHow are you going to keep the cutaway shots of the seeds, etc (essentially the background/context) consistent with the environment of the particular scene you just cut away from?
Since these items aren't physically located in front of Herb, but are located in his memories, I think I'll try to put them in a blank, white background environment to emphasize this fact. The transition into this shot will be important in conveying this to the viewer as well. Herb's voice over will sound different as well, so I may play with the audio qualities to help convey a sense of "the voice in his head".
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