Our planned shoot has had to be postponed. As the snow disrupted transport in and around Weston, we could not get into college, which has left us without any cameras for the christmas holidays. Following our production schedule, we were meant to begin filming with Joanna on 17th Decemeber 2010. We will try and contact the college to see if they are open in the holidays, in order to access the video cameras. We are going to have to closely monitor the weather, as we found during practise tests that it is not feasible to film in the snow, as the footage blurs when flakes appear infront of the lense. As our deadline is ever encrouching, we will have to use time efficiently, so if conditions don't improve in the next few weeks we will produce the final digi pack designs and plan our evaluation before filming, although this is hard due to the fact we have no footage to evaluate yet!Weather for next 5 days:
As we can't completely rely on weather forecasts, we have to consider the implications of shooting in the snow. The HD cameras we will be using have an auto setting, so hopefully the white balance and exposure will be ok.
The pavements might still be slippery so the scene where the artist is walking briskly towards the camera might proove tricky. High budget videos have been shot in the snow, and the quality is inevitably good as the cameras can adapt to the conditions well.
Here is a high budget video shot in the snow for the majority of filming. The balance of white colour is excellent.
White Lies - Farewell to the Fairground
White Lies - Farewell To The Fairground
Low Budget video shot in snow:
