Week 5

This week we had our first film shoot at SkyWatch Bird Rescue. It was scheduled for Friday morning, but Amelia was called out for an emergency rescue and had to cancel. We rescheduled for Saturday morning. The shoot went well overall and Amelia was a pleasure to interview. Unfortunately, due to the terrible weather, the b-roll we shot outside looks terrible. I hope to schedule a reshoot and to use my Canon 60D so we can use my zoom lens to get extreme close up shots of the waterfowl. Luckily, we decided to film Amelia’s interview indoors so we will not need to reshoot that.

I am not very pleased with most of the footage taken at SkyWatch and I may start scouting for a new DP. The only issue is that it was difficult to find a DP in the first place. Adam was very nice to work with, but several of his shots did not retain focus for more than a few seconds. The footage was not very consistent stylistically (ISO, aperture) and this made it very difficult to color correct. The Sony FS100 was great for the interview, but did not seem suitable for the outdoor footage. Hopefully the Canon 60D will have better results.