For a couple of years, I've thought it would be useful to have a video documenting the research I've been doing with Buzz in St. Croix. This year, I decided to create the video as my project during the time I was there. I used my little point-and-shoot camera, a Canon Powershot SD780is, for all of the filming.
I've done a few short videos before, but this was the most ambitious film project I've tried to do. It has a number of minor flaws, but is good enough for my purposes.
On the morning we left, we showed it to Mike Evans, the refuge manager at Sandy Point, before posting it publicly. I mainly wanted to be sure it didn't show anything he'd be concerned about. He was quite pleased with the video and had several helpful suggestions.
Buzz wanted to re-record a few of the bits of narration that weren't perfect. Last night, I spliced them in, retimed everything one last time, and uploaded it to the youtubes. It hasn't exactly gone viral: 3 views as of this morning. But I'm sure that will all change once I post it on my blog. :-)
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