Wayne D's Blog

After showing this completed video to people I know the most common response has been "My furnace filter doesn't look like your furnace filter". The hardest part of shooting this video was cleaning up the basement so that I had a nice clean background for the shooting. My film makers creed is "If it isn't in the shot it isn't there". Shooting angles and positions were carefully selected to prevent you from seeing how messy my basement is around the furnace. Luckily the furnace area of my basement is alrge enough that I could get back far enough to get a nicely composed shot.

It has been my custom that after I completed a video for www.howcast.com I write a blog post about the trials and tribulations of my latest shot. In the past that has included missing footage, lighting problems and various software issues. I am happy to report that the technical production process on my latest video other than one minor editing misstep that was caught by the able producers at Howcast. Now that I have mastered the mechanical shooting and editing process I want to work on the artistic side of the process, making the video more dynamic and interesting, mixing up the shots and angles. In this video I am particularly happy with how the water shots turned out. I'm still trying to decide what my next video will be, unfortunately my star actor fractured his arm in a schoolyard water balloon battle and is unavailable for the next 6 weeks,