This past Saturday, Savannah and I, along with a good friend from church, filmmed a Sons of Confederate Veterans Cross Dedication ceremony. I have spend several days this past week looking at the footage from the three cameras. I hope to start actually editing soon.
The biggest techincal difficultly was the wind. I have yet to take the audio off my Zoom H4n, so I don't know how bad that is, but the stuff from the cameras is pretty sickly. The wind blew the whole morning, so there is serious wind noise. I'm afraid that some of the speakers voices are lost--unless the Zoom (a great piece of equipment) picked them up.
I'm going to have to learn how to use Soundbooth better :)
Regardless, it was a good exprience. My camera work isn't anything to brag about, but since I was only using one arm (the other being constantly engaged in blocking the sun in my eyes), I guess it could have been worse.
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I did get Mr. Hill interviewed after the ceremony though. He had forgotten that we'd settled on that afternoon, but he pulled it off with grace. He is quite a personality--at first he seems rather prickly, but once you get to know him, you can see the gleam of fun in his eyes.
It was a great day...despite a sunburned nose :)