My FMP is a video to promote the charity Hope Nature Centre. I used a camera, a tripod and a microphone. I seem to know right away on how to use the equipment, especially the shutter-speed, I never entirely knew how to use it at first, but I know now that you use it to brighten up or darken footage depending on the light.
What enjoyed of filming was getting to see the animals, though with some of the small ones, I had trouble with filming them while behind wire mesh. I also enjoyed talking to some of the people at the centre, especially the members of public. I also enjoyed compiling the video recordings together on Premiere. I had a few interviews and cutaways all in between each other. I did tracking shots on the animals, for example the rabbit. The final shot was the sign of the animal park, I first filmed it out of focus and then I added the focus for a natural transition.
I used the song from a website called Bensound.com that has downloadable royalty free music. I chose the song on basis of having the video a casual, happy mood. But of course, I had to discard some other footage we took from getting into the video on account of the length of the song. I made a second version where there's a different song 'Carefree' by Kevin Macleod, in order to fit all, including the missing footage into the video. I had some trouble with the sound of the wind, because it turns out we used the wrong kind of microphone, instead of using the 'dead cat' mic, we accidentally took the regular mic which can record the wind too well. I followed a tutorial on Removing Wind Noise in Videos: Quick Audio Fix by Justin Brown for the second version, but I decided to not do it after all, because, the interviewees would sound too robotic. The interview question we had prepared were not in our hands, so it had to improvise the question.
We had some successes and problems when it came to release forms. The forms for the volunteers were sent to their families. So I could not use all of the footage, because we were not given the permission of filming them.
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