I forgot to mention much earlier how i had attempted a time lapse recording session. Since i had a high window i was nominated to film in my house. I borrowed the camera over the weekend for a period of 4 days. As i was only available to film a day and a half i set to work. Eagerly thinking it was going to be easy and that the camera had a time lapse automatic setting i agreed to this. Later on, when talking to the technicians i learnt that i would manually have to change the memory cards every 2 hours and later using software speed it up to produce the desired effect of rapidly moving sky.
I proceeded to get up at half five to set the camera up in the sky, after a day and a morning of this i had used up all the memory and had to wait and see what the outcome would be.
Not a great one i can assure you, the sky was either too dark at times, or the most common problem there was NO SUN! At any point during the day! A lot of clouds and excellent leaf rustling and planes zooming past but no important factor of sun and blue sky. We obviously couldn't use the footage but luckily found alternative shots of blue sky that we inserted some sort of lapse to speed it up.
After our first day of filming the adverse weather conditions made us think better of this and we all decided to stay in the editing suite and get a crack on the editing with the footage we already had. This was a very good plan due to the fact we managed to get a lot of work done, i think a minute and a half which is pretty good for small amount of footage. We were then able to see what we still needed doing for the rest of the video and how and where we would go about doing it.
The second day of filming was a complete failure, we got our artist all dressed up, took out necessary equipment, went off the location which was a beautiful little cafe and being lunchtime you can imagine what the place was like. There was no way we could have filmed in such a rowdy place, not only for our sake of the video but for the disruption we would probably be causing the customers at the cafe. So we left that spot, and moved down the road to an outdoor cafe: when it started raining. The rest of the group thought useless to film at the time because of the minor hitch back. Whilst i thought best to try and get any footage we could, mid close up would have allowed for a small amount of filming and rain wouldn't have been noticeable. At that point i thought all filming and opportunities of footage was crucial because of time allowance.
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