Christmas over- upbeat spirit regained!

Before we broke up for Christmas the relief of having the filming finally done had come. As much as I have enjoyed the filming we have come across some difficulties such as filming children, filming a very fast swimmer from underwater and the most emotional interview I have done at such an early time within the course. I couldn't have asked for Christmas to come sooner and definitely needed some time to refuel.

Now back at Uni and after much rest and eating my bodyweight in turkey, stuffing and mince pies I'm ready to get back to work.

Looking forward to seeing the footage come together and working as a group in the editing process.

Underwater shoot

Today, we did our underwater shoot with our semi professional swimmer. We had an hour to get the footage and as I have had no experience with filming underwater it was a little bit stressful.

At first, I found it difficult trying to swim and film and not drown! But as I got use to the equipment, the experience of shooting in a way that pushed my boundaries was enjoyable and our contributor was really good to work with.

Overall, I'm impressed with the footage we managed to get and have taken some screen shots of some of the best bits!

Underwater housing

In order to get some good visual shots for our opening titles for our 3 minute wonder we want to film some underwater shots.

To do this we needed to get inducted on the underwater housing, me and the producer of our group, James, went to have a look at how to keep the kit dry. The JVC 100 underwater housing is the smallest, apart from   the housing for the Canon S90 (compact camera) which wasn't suitable for what we want to do.

Looking forward to trying this out in the pool, hopefully won't feel as heavy as it is in the water, will definitely keep me underwater!

This is an image of one that looks identical to the one we shall be using.