State of A State Park
A project by Nathan Harrell
This was my project brief. My project has changed considerably since then; I believe I may have been a little too ambitious. So my project ended up being more of a feature on a singular state park.
First I just wanted to show a few of my favorite shots from the project:
First Contact
But I had to get permission before I could shoot.
The first bit of work I did towards the Project was getting in touch with the folk down at the park. I sent in some examples of some of the questions I'd be asking to give them an idea of what my goal was.
Day 1 Post Shooting
Each Day after filming at Reed Bingham, when I got home I exported all my footage and sorted through it to name files and decide what to keep.
This is what that looked like after the first day
This is what my workflow looked like at the end -
Day 2
This day was a wash. This was the first day of filming my interview, and frankly I blew it. The interview itself couldn't have gone better, my experience there paid off. But my lack of experience showed as well, since I somehow managed to not record any video, and record all my audio at levels so quiet I could barely hear it without boosting it dozens of decibels.
Day 3
I reshot my interview on this day, so I didn't shoot as much around the park, but I still managed to get some of my best shots this day.
Here, I actually got a deer on footage, you can just barely see it. It was my first time in a situation like that, and honestly I wasn't sure what to do. The shot I framed up to get the deer was blurry, and as soon as I stopped recording to fix my setting real quick, he pranced away.
This was the shot I got fractions of a second after the deer got away: one of the best shots of the whole project to me.
Day 4
of Shooting
This day was a big one. I spent the whole afternoon at the park. I went there for multiple reasons though. Primarily this was the first day of reshoots, so you see many in there like the trail markers, the covid rules and entrance signs.
This day I was also filming for my interactive: a trail map of sorts. I got a lot of pretty good shots for it, but in my time crunch here over this last weekend - a lot of the good shots I got on this day didn't make it into any of the projects.
Day 5 Filming
This was the day that gave me hell...
This was what was where my entire afternoon's worth of footage SHOULD have been.
I asked Black if he'd even seen anything like it before and he was stumped too.
Thankfully, when trying to get the footage onto my phone, I found this video, and by changing the Camera over to MTP, I was able to get my footage off...
And as you can see, it was quite a lot of footage..
