Today was a lot more productive than my last attempt at filming some of the skating sequences with my friend. This time I had three friends who were all available to participate in the process. I went to their house and we just filmed relatively short clips of them coasting down the street and doing a few tricks. I had them hold the GoPro whilst doing a few tricks which looks pretty similar to at POV shot, so that’s been incorporated – so I am happy about the fact that we trialled that. I really like the way the GoPro footage looks stylistically, I thought I wouldn’t be into it as much. I feel that the difference in footage from my Nikon D3100 and the GoPro could look a little weird when edited next to each other but I may find that I actually like the contrast. Might make for a more interesting viewing experience.

Although today was a lot more successful than last filming session, we did not have a lot of time to film as the friends involved had band practice and recording to get through as well. I think I will aim for another shoot and this time I may wear my rollerblades and see what it looks like when I film skateboarding from them. I’d also like to trial attaching the GoPro to a skateboard while following another, we got some shots from low-down following, but it would be interesting to see from the exact view of the board.

I’m looking forward to sifting through this footage and putting something together, I don’t really have a storyline to go with it at all but I’m not sure that it really needs one… with my work in this project I’m trying to heavily focus on being creative with the angles I use and gaining more ideas of how to film differing motions, rather than creating a set storyline to follow.