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To match the images to Jackson’s observation, we went to the Royal Botanic Garden to film.
When filming the POV shot of the snake, it was like the hardest hot i have ever tried to film. Because i wanted to create the crawling in the grass, i had to lay the camera really low, but if i let it touch the ground, all the leaves and branches will go straight into the lens and scratch them. So i had to lift it like 2 cm above the ground for smooth enough movement, but then it looks less snake like.
I also got some clips of the bird, though it is not the bird that he’s talking about. I mean, it’s really hard to find the exactly same birds.
When we were recording, at one point the boom mic moved back to Jackson a bit late so his voices sounds a lot smaller and distant. So I tried to increase the volume of that bit in post production, but still, I had no idea how to make it sound less distant.
In post production, I adjusted the white balance and exposure to make it generally brighter so it looks properly exposed. I remember when filming the interview, it was hard to set the white balance because if we go with wide aperture, Jackson’s forehead and nose tip would be super shiny and over exposed, so will the white bars behind him. So to avoid that, we went with a smaller aperture so nothing’s over exposed but it generally looks a bit dark.
To improve on this edit, next time i should record a bit of ambience sound at the location to accompany the observation. And I should have filmed more footage on the stones, broken tree branches or basically chosen a less good-looking location. The little pound we filmed at was too pretty.