So, for now, a quick post about the video shoot for Project F that happened yesterday.
As I mentioned… 4 participants were, and 2 of them debuted in their first Project F videos.
2 women (friends …and it was their idea) shared the role of the safety diver and made appearances in some videos as well.
So, in total there are 6 different frogwomen in the videos…. and 3 of them debuted in Project F videos!
And having 2 persons for “behind the camera” was very helpful as one of them always could help with the gear outside the pool while the other one was the safety diver.
That saved quite some time here and there… even though it was more expensive … as I gave them more than one would have usually got.
After the first half of the shooting, I was a little frustrated as some of the vintage gear had malfunctioned or didn’t work as planned.
For example, it was planned that one of the frogwomen would wear the vintage Interspiro FFM, but the mask was just too wide for her face.
Some technical difficulties took some time and after half of the shooting “only” 3 videos were finished (instead of the initially planned 5).
At the start, we already had lost some time as the 2 safety divers were late, thanks to the Deutsche Bahn (German railway).
Luckily the second half of the video shoot went a lot smoother and we finished quite a lot of videos.
Even the weather was better than initially predicted and some sun was there for nice lighting here and there.
So in the end I was quite happy … and exhausted as hell.
*EDIT* August 20:
So, I check the footage of both cameras.
I stumbled upon two (small/medium) issues:
One clip (2 minutes) with a camera in ego perspective was filmed vertically instead of horizontally. I guess the frogwoman didn’t align the camera correctly when the recording started.
My bad, should have told her about it.
But that can be corrected with a little effort.
One clip has no audio at all, complete silence! I don’t have the slightest clue how that happened since the camera was just started with recording and it was off before.
Such a thing never happened before… and all other clips have audio.
Really odd… But ok, seems that a good part of one video will then have no underwater audio… guess I will put some fitting music over it so there isn’t a complete mute part.
But besides that, I can tell that there will be at least(!) 9 videos in total from that video shoot!
That means new Project F videos will be released every 2 weeks until the year is finished! (one in August, and then 2 each month until December).
The second half of the video shoot was really productive!
At one time I was even out of the water while 2 teams were filming with one camera each. So 2 videos were finished in about 15-20 minutes.
The first video of this video shoot is scheduled for next Sunday! So….stay tuned 😉
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