Swimming pool shoot!

One of the key parts to our 3 minute wonder we are shooting is the starting sequence, it features a swimmer shooting of the blocks and swimming quickly down the pool with multiple shot angles.
Today was filming day but we only had one hour to film the entire scene, the pressure was on! To help the situation it was decided that I would take on some of the filming and do the crane/jib work whilst Michaela filmed underwater.

Below are some screen shots of the results.

The filming of this was an incredible learning curve and I had to react quickly to the situation, I had practised with the equipment within a studio but nothing prepares you for working in a humid pool side location and trying to follow a semi- professional swimmer. 

Jibs, Cranes and Wolly Dolly's

The 3 minute wonder im working on as Producer and sound engineer is based around swimming education within the United Kingdom, I came up with an opening sequence that has a very visual content and will lead up to the opening titles and hopefully suck the audience in.

Problem is it requires the use of multiple camera angles and the ability to follow a professional swimmer in a pool.

No pressure then!

To help us achieve this Michaela (camera) and myself, booked out the Jibs and cranes and practised in the television studio on saturday. Working through the shot lists and recreating swimmers by pushing ourselves along on a chair!

The JVC 700 Attached to the jib, this was the final setup that we decided to use for the filming in the coming weeks.

If you look closely in the screen of the JVC you can see myself on the chair pretending to be a swimmer!