Weekly Progress (Monday 9th April 07)

• This week I have been continue to edit and have made far more progress than I did last week. As I have other work to commit to, usless I have chosen a day to do Media, I have stayed up until 12pm-1am and done some work.
• This week I have finally found my opening tune to my doc (Nature Trail (3)- composed by Terry-Devine King), and I personally feel that I have created a introduction that even I'm astonished I could make with what I got and also how the music has fitted so perfectly with it. Also I feel its very professional as well and I proud of it. Also I have managed to fit in some of the other tracks I have and put them into the initial documentary. Also detailed touches were being made to areas. The only problem that I have found is that I actually dont have enough footage of the Blackbird. I am just about finished in making the final touches, then I think that I may need to re-create a new script for Mr.Monro to perform on the Monday we get back.
• I aim to finish my production and Evaluation by tomorrow as I have other work I must do (Friday 12th April 07). However I did say that I may create a different version of my documentary as well, a more 'Man With a Movie Camera' style. I will make ago of that however now I feel that my orginial production is working out I may not need to create the second version, however I will make a start on it.

Weekly Progress

• The worked planned for this week is to go out on Sunday morning at around 8am and to capture the wildlife around. For this I will need to use the digital video camera and the tripod.
• I went out on Sunday morning and left the house at 8.30am. I feel that today was the first day that I have got some strong and solid footage to use. During my trek in the park, I filmed things such as a tree, scenery of the park, birds nest's, water, Starling, Blue Tit's, Common Gull. However the main highlight of this attempt of filming was my footage of Grey Squirrels, which was one of the animals i intended to capture. Also i was using a variety of shots from long to close-up's to tracking. I only stayed at the park for an hour, because unfortunately the battery ran out.
• From my footage which i gained, I feel that after all my efforts, I've finally got some strong footage to show and feels like a great achievement because my efforts are starting to pay off, however theirs still a long way to! One thing I found very hard was to follow and track the animals and birds, as they move so fast and swiftly. At times when i was filming the Squirrel, when i had lost them in the trees, I had to constantly look around to see where in the tree they were. This will be something i will have to have more practice with. My view is that it has gone just as I planned, in that I go to the right places I know where the animals inhabit and hopefully the animals and birds I intended to shoot will be there at the time. Also I planned that on this occasion that I would definetely get some good, solid footage, which I have.