AV News 178 - November 2009
As for kit, any lens will do, forget the football scenario of massed white 400mm
primes, anything from fisheye to 300mm will do, though I wouldn't be inclined
to change lenses too often.
So I got home, having gone to the
event largely looking for single
images, but once there, recognising
that there was a great potential for
an AV. I hadn't gone planning for an
AV, so surveying my images at
home I realised that I had some key
pictures missing. There were no
pictures of the finish, no-one
showing off their medal, no one
huddled in a space blanket; I was
just too engrossed in the flames and water that I forgot to get those shots.
I had recorded a bit of sound,
mainly people cheering on
their mates, some of the
splashing of water and some
crackling flames. What I should
have done, in retrospect, was
to interview a competitor or
two, but I didn't.
So the challenge was how to
end the sequence. I went over
various things and then
spotted, on a TV programme, a
disclaimer which I felt would
give a light hearted end to the
film. (I won't give away the ending in case you haven't yet seen the sequence).
So having decided on a light hearted ending, I recognised I needed a light
touch to the sequence which encouraged the audience to think "…these people
must be totally mad…"
rather than "…these people
are very brave…". From the
photos, as usual, there were
a
hundred
different
sequences I could have
made. I decided against
showing too many different
obstacles, but focused on
two or three. I also had quite
a few close-up shots of
competitors so I wanted to
use those among some
broader scene setting shots.
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