When it came time to gather footage for my final project, I knew exactly what I wanted to include.
There were certain spots around campus that I knew would help to tell the story I was aiming to tell, and when it came time to gather footage from those spots, I tried everything I knew how to do in order to tell the best story that I could.
In the midst of gathering footage, however, it dawned on me that some of the photos and videos I was taking may not mesh well with the rest of the footage my group had gathered. The last thing we wanted was to have a project that looked thrown together or poorly thought out.
What would it look like if the footage I gathered was shot from a different angle as the rest of the footage from my group? Or what if my video footage was far shorter than it needed to be when it came time to mesh everything together?
I knew the only way to solve this problem would be to gather extra footage, far more footage than I knew I would need, in order to have options when it came time to put everything together.
I took photos from multiple angles, used different light settings, photographed extra parts of campus that I thought be useful later on, and made sure to gather extra video footage just in case we needed some filler footage later.
This process worked out well and gave the rest of the members of my group options when it came time to stitch everything together and create a final product. In the future, I’ll be sure to gather extra footage wherever I go. After all, it’s always better to be safe than sorry.
