Week 8

This week we accomplished a lot towards Waterfowl(ed). On Tuesday, we filmed Dr. Mallin, who researches freshwater quality and pollution. I believe his professional insight will provide a greater depth to this film. The only issue with this shoot was the 'humming' room tone in his laboratory, which we used as the interview location.

We also scheduled our film shoot 'road trip' to Charlotte this week. We left Thursday afternoon and Druscilla's family was very welcoming and allowed us to stay for the night. Very early the next morning, we finally filmed our sunrise b-roll. It was absolutely stunning and I'm extremely happy with the footage. However, we did have some issues regarding our sound recording. Our XLR cable created a terrible buzzing sound, so we had to use the shotgun mic for the remainder of filming.

Later that day, we drove to Carolina Waterfowl Rescue to film our interview with Jennifer Gordon. This was the most difficult shoot I've had to deal with yet. Setting up the lighting at the barn location was extremely stressful due to the loud ambient noise of the surrounding rescue birds. We collected a massive amount of b-roll!

The only film shoots left to schedule include an interview with Dr. Gynp (a vetinarian who works closely with SkyWatch Bird Rescue), b-roll of retention ponds, feeding geese, drains, fishing, and a reshoot of b-roll at Skywatch Bird Rescue.