On Thursday we had a tutorial with Martine in the morning, and in the afternoon we set off to film for our group experimental film. First we visited Drax Power Station and filmed some footage from the outside and across the road. Drax power station is the largest coal firing station in Europe, with large imposing cooling towers. We thought that this would be the ideal place to film, as it is also ironically surrounded by nature. We also had Newark power station in mind, where we would go back to film if we had the time.
We then on the way home stopped off to get some scenes of the motorway to also go with our industrial scenes in our film. Myself and Amy stood on the overpass to get the footage of the cars going underneath it, and we will be speeding it up to make it look more aesthetically pleasing and also effective.
The only problem with the bridge is that due to the wind and the fact it was quite well used as a method of crossing the motorway from a school is that it moved quite a bit when we were trying to get a still shot. This might impact on our footage but I don't think it will be that significant, and hopefully we have some still footage from the more stable shots we took. I think it was a very successful day and we got some really good footage that will go well with our nature scenes.
We got a lot of footage at the power station and we were very lucky to find that across the road was a childrens play area so we lucked out on that and was able to make a strong association between the innocence of children and the ruining of nature through shots. We will now review the footage and begin editing.
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