Thursday, 20 December 2007

Christmas tree project - Lesson learnt

As a mentioned on a previous post I shot my first multimedia project. Unfortunetly I fell short of being able to complete it due to the poor sound recorded and lack of planning. One thing I have learnt is to put much more emphasis on producing good sound and having a clear idea where you are planning to take the story in terms of what sound you need. As a photographer its easy to pick up the camera and create good images, producing good sound is much more of a challenge. So as the title says, its lesson learnt and I will be better prepared next time.

Here are some images from the shoot with some of the background to the story.

A Family Affair
The Band family have been seling Christmas trees to the local community for over 30 years and making wreaths for the last 20 years. Headed up by Jean Band, who despite being in her 70's still does a tremendous amount of the manual work, three generations of the Band family work daily in the period up to Christmas to satisfy demand for their festive fare. The tree are grown locally and cut daily before being brought to the house for sale. The wreaths are all made from scratch on site.
On the day I shot a large 20 foot tree was being cut for the local pub. (A picture of the decorated tree will appear soon).



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