If I must say so myself, today couldn't have went more smoothly. We did everything as CAREFULLY as possible, because we really wanted this one not to have any technical setbacks, seeing that we have had at least one technical problem on each of our projects it seems... but today definitely lifted my spirits again. I really feel like we all pitched in to help each other and worked as a team amazingly well. We arrived on time, set up the camera and projector, gathered our things and got to it. We helped Gabby's group first. Participating in their long take was a fun experience. Everyone was laughing and just having a good time. There was no pressure, and they knew what they were doing. Their idea of following the bee was excellent! I picked up the regular 8 camera and followed Barrett following the bee :) That little camera is so neat!! People laughed at me because I was so excited about it. I hope that the footage of that comes out looking okay! Anyways--Our two projects sort of went together because for our long take we decided to film a picnic. They also briefly had a picnic in theirs as well. They finished with a little bit of extra time, giving us time to walk to our area on a bridge over a pond near the International building and greenhouse. We sat up our intricate little picnic, which was lovely. Our idea stemmed from the Andy Goldsworthy documentary, because Amy and Emma had recently watched it in one of their classes, and I had also seen it. We originally wanted to create something in nature, but then we decided to incorporate a picnic. We decorated the area with different colored flower pedals that we found walking on the way there. I sat out a teaset, and we sort of just timed out how we wanted to do our picnic. We also plan to play it backwards, so we did everything in reverse. This also saved time because we could set up while Gabby's group was processing, then just pack it all up in the 1 min that we filmed. Amy threw a pinecone into the pond so that it will look as if it leaps out of the water and lands in her hand when we play it in reverse. Emma was very good about writing down how we should time it. One setback of the day: Emma had her phone sitting on the banister of the bridge, and not mentioning any names but someone... (Andy) bumped it with his elbow and PLOP. It landed in the pond. We couldn't help it, we had to laugh. Later, Emma borrowed my rainboots and found it, believe it or not. We are wondering if it will work again after it dries out....
The footage looked great, there's a glamorous shot of me taking an enormous bite of a sandwich. HAH
Processing the film was a great experience. I learned so much! Leanne and I also were able to capture our 1st project (Dragon Sneeze) which we were really happy with! We are planning to submit it to the Reel Teel film fest. Everyone else seemed to have a great experience. It started raining the moment I pulled out of the parking lot. Talk about excellent timing!! We were a bit disappointed our teacher wasn't able to come and experience the day with us, but we really got it figured out together. Looking forward to seeing everyone's long takes!
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