Filming: Wildlife & Nature | Production

On our second filming day, we decided to film the nature and wildlife shots. We knew it would take us a while to find some wildlife, and we understood it would be difficult but as a group we agreed that we would take our time finding the wildlife ad we wanted good coverage.

Camerawork

• We had three different cameras on this filming day which helped a lot with getting wildlife shots and getting a good range of different shots. 
• To start with we walked to the bluebell pathway we filmed in to get some cutaways of the landscape and the bluebells, but also to find wildlife.
• Sammi stood at one end of the pathway, I stood in the middle, and Nisserin stood at the other end. We all set up our cameras and started to shoot some landscape shots while also searching for wildlife.
• We managed to find some different type of birds, and a few insects such as bees and butterflies which would be our cutaways when editing the video.
• We walked around the farm and got a variety of bird and butterfly shots, while also getting some landscape shots that we could use for commentary shots. 
• When we imported the footage, we found out that we didn't get enough wildlife shots, so we will have to go back and find some more wildlife.

Sound

• We didn't need all of the audio from the cameras, so we decided to put a microphone on one of the cameras.
• This was done so we would have some atmosphere audio that we could add to the edit and it would create the desired tone and atmosphere.
• By adding the tweets of the birds and the rustling of the trees, it will make the documentary more realistic and 'alive', which is something that we were aiming for.

Lighting

• Again, due to filming outside we knew we would have some weather issues, however the sun was out for the majority of the day, which made our shots look bright and pleasing for the eye.
• However, it might be hard for us to colour match the clips together, mainly because of the brightness of the clips. 

Overall, the second filming day went well, but we will need to go back another day to carry on filming the wildlife and got more footage of animals and insects.