Over the weekend, I went to Swansea and so took my new video camera, shot lots of footage and then decided to edit it, perhaps try and achieve some of the things I want to do for the final project. Obviously I want to have more than one trip for that piece, but this was a good chance to experiment with my camera since I hadn't used it before and also see what works and what doesn't.
So it was a very rough piece that is basically an experiment, although I do like it to a point. I think speeding it up is the key to making it work and I do like the shot in the service station, discussing how much further we have to go in the journey.
There are some shots which work much better than others and now I know what sort of things look good and visually compelling i can carry this forward into the next section of my work. I kept the underlying motorway sounds and also used the sat nav lady's voice but admit i didn't want the chipmunk effect sound. I just forgot to slow down the audio on those clips.
But as an experiment I'm happy with it and look forward to shooting more video. I'm going to Cardiff this weekend, but the only problem with that is I'm driving. I'm contemplating strapping the camera to my dashboard and just recording, see what i capture, but I may just try and take stills from places we go to/stop instead.
Anyway, here's the roughly edited video. I might go back and look at what other sound i can add. One of the things i meant to do was have the radio on in the car so that you'd get a mixture of music which would change with the clips, but I forgot as I was concentrating on filming.
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