Cut Footage

Not everything went right the first day I went filming, my first scene was to be filmed on the walls and there were alot of tourists walking around. I wanted to get empty shots of my character alone on the walls and we had to do alot of takes to get it right. It also started raining and this delayed my progress too. It was also really windy that day and the balloon wasn't behaving as good as I had hoped it would, it kept blowing down towards the ground and I had to do numerous takes to try and see the face on it. I wanted to start the film of with a panning view of Derry but my tripod wouldn't swing around smoothly enough, it turned out very choppy so I decided to cut it and just add a still scene to the beginning. I also wanted to do a panning view of the river Foyle below Sainsburys but again the tripod was not suitable for this type of shot. Here are the two shots I took:

 

 

It took me a long time to get a shot that I could use for the close up of the character staring out over the wall. The wind was really strong and I had to try and balance my tripod on top of the wall which didn't have a flat surface. I also wanted to blur out the character and then focus in on his face, manually turning the lens didn't help the shake either! Here were some of the shaky shots: