So on “the eighth day of Christmas”…I believe you get “maids a-milking”…not really that useful so instead we opted for “one 15 year old Cornwall County swimmer.”
For our opening sequence, James had a brainwave and suggested that we shoot a semi-pro/pro-swimmer plunging into a ‘Nirvana album cover’ baby dive. Unfortunately I am not quite sure where we are going to source a baby from but our county swimmer was fantastic, really co-operative and his butterfly was immensely good.
However, this created two challenges: a) we are going to have to film him in the water and b) we are going to have to film him from poolside when he is travelling at speed.
Solution: Michaela gets into the water (after a while I ended up taking the plunge too) with the JVC 100 underwater housing and James films from the side using a jib/crane with a wally dolly!
It was a great experience for all of us, if slightly stressful because the set-up and equipment was untested but we all really enjoyed the shoot and the results are admirable for first timers.
Well done team and thank you to our county swimmer.
(Jib/crane and wally-dolly a bit of a “badly behaved” combo really and underwater housing much more suitable for filming slow moving fish when scuba diving not fast moving swimmers!)
See Michaela's blog for images of the practice sessions and equipment
See Michaela's blog for images of the practice sessions and equipment
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