Tracey – Blue Planet Diving School – The chance to get my diving qualifications quick and cheaply to start underwater filming and photography.

Chris Light - AWF Media Producer – Have been asked and ideas suggested to join with chris and AWF when finishing my degree

Åsne Folstad- Our Norwegian friend and documentary star, always welcoming and ready for filming in norway, with a great deal of friends and family in the local community

Ken Fero – Documentary Film Maker/ lecturer

Joe Fox – Zoologist at Salford University

Johnny Bradford - Graphic Designer –student graphic desginer always on the look out for work and collaboration with media

Henry Tomson- Graphic Designer-  Graphic Designer –student graphic desginer always on the look out for work and collaboration with media

My professional experience revolved around many projects; I will have a hand in a few small projects but this presentation will be focusing more on my major project with the AWF. At this current point in life I feel the need to travel, open up to culture and invest in different locations for my media related work. The value of stock footage on an island like Tenerife and the contacts and opportunities I have made have been priceless. The experience has been invaluable providing myself with a wide range of individual and transferable skills. Since I worked on a documentary project in Norway I have had my eyes opened for traveling, the time spent on this project provided myself with a high mark. This suggested that I push harder and use my work placement to work with something new, different. The smaller projects were just a minimal amount of experience compared to my month in Tenerife. I wont pretend it didn’t happen but wasn’t fully involved in the whole process of the smaller projects just because of the time scale. This meant that I never get to be involved with the edit, products such as CCTV Terror and the Tennis project. This gave me a wider scope to work elsewhere. Focusing my main experience working with the AWF.

The main project for my work experience was a month’s placement in Tenerife with the AWF; this has been in the pipeline since the start of term one. My main task was to crate a project to promote the boats and magnify the beauty of the non-commercial side of the island. Meanwhile Building contacts and a large film portfolio to be used for future reference. All of this blending into my professional experience module giving me a good reason to film abroad, working on individual projects and providing myself with a great deal of potential with new contacts and companies. The underlying principle behind my work experience placement is to gain experience in the media industry become self efficient, initially the work placement I ended up choosing dose not seem to have relevance to the media on the exterior but what has become of this placement has fallen nicely. The reason I chose to do this is to provide myself with an opportunity, something I don’t get to do every day, and the work completed was totally different to what I have done before and that on my CV volunteer work would be a bonus. Almost like free-lance work, we had a free range of what we could do for the AWF, we collaborated with them to bring out the best in us, my personal strengths combined with the AWF’s resources. There is one thing that should be said, even though there was a great deal of traveling and research work into the sanitations for the AWF our workload didn’t end as we moved from project to project. I have even started to use my contacts and work with the diving center to get my diving qualifications on the go, providing the chance to film under water.

Because this module is working on building upon you, creating media and finding open doors towards jobs, I found a placement that worked on every level for the requirements of this module. Allowing myself to build on relationships and a fantastic portfolio that would impossible to capture without taking this opportunity.

Working with the AWF, charity based work with a great deal of opportunities; it was down to us what we wanted to do. It started out as volunteer work, working on the boats and talking to the public. It soon moved over to our projects; traveling, filming on the boats, capturing sunsets and sunrises in different terrains and weather conditions. The two main tasks were promotional videos for the boats and a promotional video of the island (view blog post). Most of the time was used by capturing unbelievable views and stunning sun sets, bringing together a much-appreciated short that the AWF team loved.

During my work experience I have noticed that depending on the person, determines what you gain from this experience. I have found in myself that working for the AWF I have learnt a lot and pushed to get what I needed to produce the best productions possible. I have developed life skills and new media skills that I have never had before. I have also opened up a great connection with the AWF, since they are a worldwide organisation with contacts I find it a big map of work that I could use at the end of my degree. These are just small segments of what opportunities this month has opened up, the contacts I have made and the friendships I have bonded have created a sense of worth. Time well spent, even to the point of discussing equipment and projects that are coming up in the future. AWF media and the diving school has opened up animal documentaries and promotional filming for myself to become involved in, also the chance to be Working in 3^rd world countries to enlighten the world and animals it posses with video conservation.

What to expect next, well as a media producer I never feel totally complete with all my work. I always expect more. Looking for the next trip, the next opportunity, I don’t want to miss out. I plan to take my Final Major Project abroad, working in many locations collaborating all the knowledge and contacts I have from my work experience. Enabling and transferring new knowledge into the next media project. I aspire to work within films, documentaries, animals, nature and the human life, but not just that, I have left doors open showing that I can work out of my comfort zone, different countries and different climates. I feel satisfied to say that I have been to extreme lengths to capture the scenery and stories throughout my short media life and I only want to push it further.

I would just like you to take the time to watch the Promotional video that reflects my time spent in Tenerife

And again the Maxicat promotional video

This was the defining pointing part to the trip of to Tenerife, when we arrived in Tenerife and got settled in over the following days, we started to collaborate and work with the AWF to work out what we wanted to gain from our time from the trip and what we could do for them as a company. We knew that the footage gathered from working on the boats and traveling the island would give us such a wide and fantastic portfolio for our future employers. This first hand and personal contact with the AWF, the boats we volunteer for and the beauty of the island itself.

When working for the AWF we are collaborating with the boats that work and watch the whales, dolphins, pilot whales and other sanitations Show the tourists how important and how amazing these animals are and preventing the whaling and pollution of our seas. Our job on the boats is to serve and aid the staff, take data on all sanitations that we see when scanning the sea. All the data, photos and footage used to be collected and researched into to help us as an organization to understand the marine life at a higher level.

The second part of our job is the media side was to be decided, with Ed we sat down and worked out what exactly we wanted to do, we put forward out ideas and our feeling towards why we where here. Ed himself had a few ideas of what we should and what he would like us to do. It was almost like a promotional video but not towards the AWF as such is was more so the feeling of Tenerife as an island and what can be like other than the commercial areas were Tenerife seems to be so focused on, although its their main income the island is ten times better around the mountains and around the masca area full of rock and wildlife, im going to try and capture all of this footage to better the knowledge of the visitors. But its not just about that this project is to capture beauty in video form to be placed on the AWF’s website, giving the volunteer and the new website for adventure holidays to see some of the most beautiful parts of Tenerife allowing an incite to the beauty of the island therefore brining attraction and attention n to the AWF’s sites. Giving more opportunities for the AWF to expand and gain a bigger hand in the boating community, prevention of the whaling and start up projects around the world.

This video will be placed on the new site attracting all kinds of audiences from young to old, allowing the island with such attraction to bring awareness to the site opening a world of intense potential in more ways than one, adventure, wildlife and beauty. The quality and content of this project has to be at such a high standard to become a star attraction to the site, identifiying what can be seen and done around the island. Providing potentiona customers the ability to see what there in for before they arrive, opening there eyes to a world such a professional unit.

Below is a link that is a signed sheet to prove that I have worked the full time and more than 20 of work experience with the AWF

During our time in Tenerife we worked very closely as a group there are many posts throughout this blog that state how often and how well we worked together. All ideas and filming was shared and based around our personal skills, as i have said before I have been very happy with the group as a whole and the work between us and the AWF, it was very enjoyable and worth while to be apart of such a great organization. I would like to say the research and planning stage was a brilliant way to get everything straight and ready beacuse a lot of the time we knew exactly what to expect and were to be. The fact that as a team we knew who could do what and who could fix certain aspects if things went wrong.

There was a definite certainty between group members on how and how well we could operate the camera and get it to the highest standard, we had a lot of playing around and changing with the white balance and pull focus etc so it was a big learning curve alos another learning curve with the climate because the weather would chop and change and effect how the footage would look.

Other projects

Another project I have been asked to take part in is to do with the music student’s final performance. This is an ongoing thing past the end of the module purely because its such a big task to edit around my months placement, I have recorded and started to put together the second years final music performance exam. Working around my time in Tenerife and shortly after I would have to hand in my professional experience module.

The music project was just one night of filming, getting involved with the 3 different sessions that night, three sections to the night including big band, jazz-fusion and acoustic and band acts. The night would consist of 7 hours worth of footage. On the night I planned to take a team of three, one for sound, camera one and two. The second years asked me to be involved within a project revolving around their final performance I was approached by the second year professional practice music students to capture footage that was to be used for their final examination and for website promotional activity, this was to be done in one evening and I had the planning of one day, I was asked last minuet to gather my team and execute the camera work that evening

The project with Ken Fero was called CCTV Terror TV, this consisted of a one day set up and shoot of an interview, facts and opinions around CCTV in the Birmingham area from an elderly resident that has lived in this area all his life working on an interview and location shot to allow the world to see his view on life in CCTV terror. His views were for the CCTV camera due to his feel of safety and satisfaction. Of course we had to share the same light and film in exactly the same way as the whole documentary. During this day I worked on the lighting and sound, this was a helping hand for ken and was happy to help film stock footage and work the full day in and around birminham.

All the projects I have been involved in and currently working on are:

CCTV Terror

Tennis project

Big band and jazz fusion 2nd year final performance

AWF Tenerife work placement

The underlying principle behind my work experience placement is to gain experience in the media industry become self efficient, initially the work placement I ended up choosing dose not seem to have relevance to the media on the exterior but what has become of this placement has fallen nicely. The whole point of the work experience is to get a placement giving yourself a chance to get a foot the door with a company understand the ‘real world’. I wanted to become involved, do more than the initial and compulsory 20 days of work experience. I wanted more out of my placement, I needed to build relationships and bring together my professional skills in media production and utilize by working for an organisation/company. Although my placement with the AWF was gained through being approached through a guest lecture in effect work off my own back and become self efficient. Because this module is working on building upon yourself creating media and finding doors and pathways towards jobs, by using initiative to find a job I found a placement that works slightly like freelance simultaneously working for the AFW producing promotional videos. I have taken a route that is working with a suggested charity, providing work and promotional videos for them through my own means and ideas. I have the chance to apply and to work with the BBC, university lecturers and my own productions/films but I feel I have found something better. I always have the opportunity to work with my uncle at the BBC and will do so, it’s just I feel what I have opted for is something different, in a new climate in a different country with a new culture. It will not only be a massive learning curve but it is also a self building task to live in Tenerife researching into pilot whales, bottle nose dolphins and other sanitations. This month working abroad is based around my own ideas and as a group developing and evolving promotional material. The trip is to gather the whole month create as much media as possible, work with people and places I have never before, expanding my knowledge around working on the job, exploring locations and gathering the Spanish culture captivating this all through video and imagery.

The reason for choosing this placement is partly because it was more of an adventure, filled with camera work. I felt that this could be a chance to become really involved with the world, providing something to give back, generate some fantastic footage for my portfolio providing an extraordinary portfolio that shows the experiences I have been through, the ideologies and knowledge I have gained through different countries and cultures and climates. Showing my future employee what I can do and the risks and location scanning I do to get the footage I want, not just what suffices the module. Not only that but the footage I capture will be insanely beautiful and what I can do with it between myself and group work will look brilliant. Building up my portfolio with all the work I have been involved with is one of the most important things to me, I want to be able to show my skills in every area and learn new ones as I progress. The whole point of this trip to Tenerife is to show and adapt to the environment and allow myself to learn the elements and find a way to film wildlife and landscapes, eventually leaning towards work in this type of industry. The whole point with work experience is to progress and construct ideas and skills throughout. I see the possibility to return and work fro the same organization more than once; this is even a career choice who knows. At the moment I find my self trying to identify what exactly what I want to do, were is should be, hat in like should I take and what I should leave behind.Since I am spending my time in Tenerife I am looking into diving and finding out how I can become a wildlife documentary maker or something along those lines. I feel that this opportunity with the AWF opens my eyes to  new opportunities with underwater footage, footage around the island and live sanitation footage. The opportunities are almost endless I have the chance to be on the water all the time every day, climb mountains and dive its almost like I have the chance to learn all of these skills in order to build a skill repertoire and become a diver that can film, climb and capture wildlife and/or documentaries in so many climates and situations.  Ideas due to the work I have done out here enabling my future work place to see what I have worked on throughout my time at university. I feel that my time spent at university for the AWF as an organization, a charity could really be a life changing experience. It seemed to all fit into place, the guy that runs the AWF Ed wants to us to work on ideas he has and to bring our own, this meant that we had to bring our own ideas to the table story board and present to the whole of the AWF in one of the daily meetings.

The action plan when in Tenerife was to invent and utilize a strategy to complete all the tasks set by the AWF and our own personal projects, looking back now I can see so much influence from both parties that it is hard to decipher which is were. When we arrived in Tenerife we took on half the project that the previous group were completing, this group left the AWF two weeks in too our time there. Other than this project myself and the group had ideas of capturing the landscape, stock footage, ideal locations and small shorts around the island. I personally wanted to fill my porfoloio with stuning footage of the boat work, the island and the astonishing scenery and tourist points. This plan was more of a rough idea of basis of projects that I wanted to complete when out working for the AWF.

It came to the work to be set by Ed (Manager of AWF) Now this work was a collaboration between our ideas and his own, this is were the idea to fill our portfolios full of marvelous boat and island footage came together compiled with his idea for promotion of the island. He wanted to capture the island in a beautiful and non-commercial way. We asked and where granted the ability to travel on our days off from the boats and weekends to capture all of this. This gave us a massive push to plan out and create a way that we could capture the island.

We sat down with Ed and the head coordinators Joe and Agata to find the ideal locations, planning out the sunsets and sun rises times and which way to face and the rough proposal of the ideal location, time of the sun set/rise, the rest of the location spotting was up to us. We had a map were Ed marked out half of the locations for the week when he was away and the rest to be finalized his return. So the first set of locations were based around the Volcano Teide and the fantastic views above the cloud formations. The first two time lapse sequences were to be based facing away from Teide to capture the sun setting into the clouds. The next day was the sun setting around teide and rock formations in the surrounding area, capturing Teide and the sun licking the rock formations with light. When the sun had dropped we focused on the clear views of the sky, the star formations and the rotation of the world on its axsis. The last step to this week’s time lapse was to be attempted twice purlely to capture the sun rise from 5 till 7 in two different locations. We were just given the locations we figured out what we should capture and on what day. This is were the action plan came into play below is the shooting time table.

Shooting script :

The brief for most shoots were always the same, it was down to us as media producers to film what we see fit, this ment we had total control, in some areas I would take control and suggest exactly what we wanted to capture. Because I was put forward to be our ‘ambassador’ and was asked to meet with Ed, talking through ideas and evolving and understanding what the AWF wanted from what and us. So when it came to the filming and time lapses I had a slight direction that I would portray to the group, give them an understanding what we needed to capture. Of course when a member of the group had input and a sense of direction we would take that because we became a group that had different ideas and incorporated them all into our filming. But it was certainly down to the weather and location, some locations above the clouds and some directly under mountains so lighting and continuity was a tough one to keep together. The idea behind all the locations was to capture the beauty and the traditional Tenerife but of course like al holiday brochures and online videos you want to see the island at its best. Some days when filming we found it to be overcast and dull, others sweltering hot, this became a mix and match when trying to keep everything the same and looking as best as possible.

This was a promotional basis; to promote the island for the AWF find a way to captivate the activities you can take part in, the sights you can see and really to show the island in its purest form. The content was not to be full of boring and stationary shots of the beach and all the sea front, restaurants filled, and a high commercial status. Ed wants something to show the island regardless of Los Christianos and Las Americanos, which is the south sides party, restaurant and beach strip. This was the man made and commercial part of the island, our video was to go further than this, travel and identify the locations that really show Tenerife at heart.

List of places to visit and film to complete the advertisement video, the content needed would be from the locations below. The following locations will be different in every location depending on the location time and what is present, some will be solid film and others would be time lapse all dependent on our judgment of the locations and the content within the shots. Obviously we have to be careful what we decide to do because there is a great deal that we rely on the Macbook’s battery life and the camera’s battery life because we can’t charge them on the field.

-       Banana farms

-       Tagana

-       Lore Forests

-       Santa cruse- festival

-       Kandalaria

-       Pine Forests

-       Villages; Ontatava, Arafo, Los Abigos, Masca

Items to capture within the teneriefe promo

-Fishermen

-Goats

-Pyramids,

-festival celebrations

-Flowers of the island

- Kandalaria, statues, black Madonna etc

- Island life

-Excitement, fun, festivities

-The heart of teneriefe

Quick directions/ Eds shooting script

Today the 5th go to los abrigos , the prettiest village on the island, wnd surfing etc… Capture a quant fishing village, in a bay on a hill, a sense of old Tenerife, also to los christianos taking in the fish and there boats the hourse ridding place, film the horses, on the left to the hourse ridding olace there are thousands of goats, famous goats because their udders drag on the ground.

^5th day one, head up to santa cruse, an hour to Taganana find the stunning views, mist around the mountain tops, lorel forestes are on the way to Taganana. Take the tunnel that takes you to the other side, this is the only way to Taganana, don’t go to taganana carry on to benijo when you get here it bends 100m and ends, at a cornoor next to a broken down building, behind this is a black beach… behind the shack is the best resterant on the island looking over the beach, catch peolple eating and chilling to capture the sense of tennerife and the surfing culture, views, the resterant itself, places on the

6^th day two, Friday eve or sat eve, 6:00 santa cruse at night, cobbled sreets the best place to film, near the red light district, old canery islands typical night, sitting in eating out dancing on roofs, on the way we can stop off in candilaria and go to the cathedral in kandilaria… statues of guanche warriors, black Madonna. Park the car walk to the main squre on the squre are all the statues, out side behind the monistry if its open is a cave were the Madonna was housed for100’s of year views are incredible. The cake shops around there, it’s famous fro cake and fish resterants. Guinar the piramyds , two turns before kandilaria. Don’t go into the pyrimads film through the fence. In the lorel forsts on the way to tagana, before thr tunnel there is a tunnel parking to the right, straight into the lorel forests for time lapse.

1^st day, the weather was against us, we ended up searching for the hourse ranch and goats, the only problem with this day is that the island was 95% covered in cloud. I know were are in Tenerife but the weather has really been against us since we have been here, it has its off days and its overcast and cold. So to portray the beautiful Tenerife is a tough one, the sun needs to be shinning with glorious blue water to really reflect the true Tenerife before global warming and karma rose against us. But its not all bad we worked around it and the footage capture is mainly close ups of animals and farm land so the close ups and slight burst of sun light, but there is nothing colour correction can change. The problem with some of the things Ed wanted us to include really didn’t have relevance, the goats and the view behind the goats through a media eye were horrible, just rocks and old shack with very grey over cast sky, it made the difference not placing this within the film.

Day two, this day was much more successful finding all the right places the sun was out and the views were stunning, it was unreal on how high we was and how much we could film. This day was jam packed and full of views that we had to cram all into the short promotional video. This village and the sights around made this trip worth while, seeing the real Tenerife and being able to view it in its true state.

Day three, well this started out a slow day, filming statues and the black madonna this was all very nice but I couldn’t help but feel uneasy when filming in such a religious place, it was a tough call but we had to put it all within the promotional video that Ed asked for.It soon moved on to the evening when a great deal of things opened up, santa cruse light up at night and some of the things we captured on tape were brilliant and well worth the wait.

Reflection on the shooting process

For the beauty of Tenerife task or brief, it was a very fun, interesting and from a filming point of view brilliant, it was just quite limited for one the equipment could have been better we had a great deal of lenses and the d90, you just never knew exactly what you was getting the screen is so small and in high light situations it was almost impossible to see, and adjust to the focus and the zoom. But saying this there were great benafits to this camera, the locations and travel was a great deal easier, inconsicus in size compared to the z1, it takes SD cards and very easy to transfer footage across to the laptops. This was a big thing for us out there because our time was very limited for filming and editing. Because we were apart of an organisation we had to work for them as well as comply by their rules and attend meetings, this meant that our work time would be cut in half on some nights, the result of working on the boats also meant that you would be out all day filming and researching into the pilot whales. When returning home you would have to fill out the research sheets and petitions and enter this all into the database, this meant that we wouldn’t be finished until 9:00. The fact that we had to film on the boats was also a good reason to have the d90 because the size of the camera was less obvious because it looked like we where taking photos, and the fact that we had to capture the boats character made it easy without people waving or smiling directly at the camera, so it made our lives easier when it came to the edit.

The use of the d90 gave us the chance to film and time lapse. A time lapse is something that I wasn’t expecting to do, the outcome was brilliant and there was no other way to capture the beauty of the landscape and the change throughout a sun set or rise over time. This was a brilliant aspect and skill that didn’t take a lot to do apart from the initial set up. Once the initial set up the time just had to tick away to take effect, the moments were light changed at night started to make a big difference to what was being captured. The program that was running our time lapse had to be stopped and the f stops and aperture would be changed, this is another reflection were different equipment would have been perfect. Because of the circumstances we didn’t know that a time lapse would be an appropriate idea to put forward until we was in Tenerife. This was something we should of really thought about and worked on more so we could have a remote for the camera rather than taking two lap tops everywhere for our two cameras and the time lapse process, this ment we could only time lapse for as long as the laptops battery lasted or the cameras battery, but 9 times out of 10 we had prepared and this was more than enough time as you can see in the final products.

When filming I had a very static idea, not many pans and not many zooms, but I was quite partial to a pull focus on most objects around our filming locations, I liked the feel it brought to the film but only because that’s what DSLRs are good at purely because the depth of field given. The 50mm lense gave a great deal of depth and colour to the film and static shots worked the best, it was obvious that in the landscape and surroundings needed to be taken in and cut between static and moving shots to find the true image. It’s a shame the camera cannot capture what our eyes can because the footage would be outstanding, I feel a pull focus can allow the eye to see the difference in location and understand the sheer size of the locations we where filming within. I did get told form my group members that I was doing way to many pull focuses and sooner or later I would have more pull focuses than film and it started to become pointless, so the focus was slightly changed, other than the odd occasion.

Obsticles, the lighting and continuity with the weather this also tangles in with the location and the cameras ability to overcome the darkness, it really struggled at times t capture some light.

My work experience doubled up as a few things not only work experience and valuable people skills but it allsp counts for life skills. The whole process of living in teneriefe for a whole month may sound easy and fun, I wont lie because it was very fun but it was jam packed with inspireation and a great deal of work. Before the first week of being there I had already figured out what we as to work on, how we could go about it and what tasks or work assienments I wanted to work on. Ive said before but I was almost like two jobs in one, one researching and on free lance part. This ment that the whole month was spent on many different things with a great deal of travel and camera experience. It felt as if we would create two tasks and appoint them daily to get finished by the time our stay was over. The main task to create a promotional video of Tenerife took up a great deal of time and many locations and to capture and edit all that we set out to do was quite a lot since we only had a month whilst working on the boat task. Two projects on the go made it a constant process, we learnt to work as a team and adapt to our surroundings quickly, for example sitting at the bottom of a volcano in a desert or on the edge of a cliff above the clouds in minus temperatures capturing a time lapse are not normally situations to be in. but there were other times with very quick and brash decisions made purly to get on with the work. The ideal locations were hard to find because you never knew what to expect, being in Tenerife you would expect constant sun and a cool breeze on the off day but it really wasn’t like that, totally off that. The weather was mostly sunny, always warm but where we was based it was high up in the mountains so the temperature and cloud coverage would depend daily and the cars where only available from 10 till 5 on most days the only over exception was when we had three days planned to do a filming tour of the island. Depending on the factors of cloud cover and weather it depended on where and what we could film so we based our planning around the weather in certain segments around the island.

Reflection on my personal experience

From the very start of my professional experience, it has been an adventure in more ways than one, the fact the I have traveled the world and met so many people due to being someone with the personality that interacts and adheres with people, finding the way of communication even through language barriers. Living with people from so many continents and cultures all working together in one organisation.

Firstly I feel that this experience has opened my eyes to something I have never really been involved with before so many different cultures and ideas being molded together producing great work as a team at the AWF. Whilst living/working with the organization we had daily meetings with updates of work and future events that are taking place, chances to film and travel opportunities. This really pushed the group and myself to produce great quality work. With a quick turn around time for each assignment. At the same time as working on our own work we worked on the boats researching into sanitations of the sea for the AWF. Our work assignments were separate to the work on the boats. On the days off from the boats we were pro productive taking every chance to film and capture time lapses of the breath taking locations. But this was not raised all on my own, we worked with Ed the AWF Manager/coordinator to create such a task I feel that the traveling the island through tasks being set has really produced a fun and effective work experience and the skills and knowledge I have acquired has been very beneficial. This work experience has given me the chance to work on skills that I have never tried before, the chance to expand my knowledge from others and working off my own back. I feel that I have worked a great deal off my own back the whole time spent in Tenerife trying to find the best places to film, depending on the weather made it difficult to make the island look beautiful with torrential downpours. I feel I have traveled myself, becoming a different person, fearless in the sense of what I wasn’t afraid of what I could achieve and concur in Tenerife, I was quiet prepared and did climb many mountains and explore boats and the docks to get the footage needed. It even came to the point where we sat at the base of the volcano in the desert spending 5 hours of one late evening in capturing a time lapse of the sun setting and the stars coming out. I feel changed and so has my work, honored to of been able to take this opportunity to find out were I want to be in the next few years. Once I finish my degree I want to take the traveling and filming much further allowing my self to land in a job that has the same opportunities and lifestyle choice to become what I need to be.

During the time spent on my work placement it came to my attention that there is a great deal of beauty combined with an abundance of views, tourist attractions and landscape filled with mountains that would fit the brief for something beautiful capturing every aspect that sells Tenerife to the target audience for the AWF’s websites. This task was a combined effort between my group and Ed, I came up with the idea when traveling through Tenerife and the many mountains that surround our temporary home. The views and the popularity of the beaches, ports, volcanoes and mountains this was a perfect to capture time, capturing the beautiful island as the world revolves around it. The culture so full of life with the drastic change in landscapes the higher you climb it just seemed out of this world, something that captured correctly would become something so stunning it would attract audiences far and wide. Originally I took inspiration from time lapses I have seen all over the world and there seemed to be a great deal of time lapses popping up on the internet but there was one that caught everyone’s eye at the AWF http://vimeo.com/22439234

Time lapse is a skill that I have never used before; I have never found the need. The fact that were we are based in Coventry you can see that there is not a great deal you can do with a time lapse their, apart from capture traffic of pedestrians and this is no use if you want to capture beauty and incredible views. This is were the inspiration and ideas kick in, I started to think that since I had seen the previous video I could create something of the same standard or better, the only thing letting me down was the equipment, in the video above the quality and equipment is at a much higher level than the D90 and range of lenses I have here in Tenerife. The camera equipment he has used throughout his time in Tenerife creating this time lapse is very expensive and he had a great range of lenses that suited every location because he had a great deal of research behind the landscape, but we had Ed on our side and we had planned a route and location that we should take in order to try and better the video I have taken inspiration from.

You will notice that a lot of our beauty and promotional uses the time lapse footage purely because of how the days and the earth revolve around in such a beautiful way that I felt the more time lapse the better, allowing the audience to take it all in.