The Brief

Actually, there was no brief for this job as such. A local company, filming some 360 and drone footage, invited me along to capture some b-roll. The client hadn’t asked for it, but as there was a lot of kit an extra pair of hands wouldn’t go wasted.

Implementation

On the first shoot, I was essentially at my leisure to capture anything I thought might be interesting. As we had a chap and a boat at our disposal I took the opportunity to interview him while everyone had lunch. My little interview, plus the footage I’d shot made for a nice little story of around 5 minutes.

The Result

It became clear that these little stories would work quite nicely for social media, so the Canal and River Trust made sure there was someone for me to interview at the remaining locations.



This is still one of my favourite jobs because we made something out of nothing and I had lots of creative freedom. Filming and editing my own footage really worked for me and I realised that I was good at putting people at ease. Many of our interviewees were very reluctant to appear on camera but the time they’d finished chatting to me, they were barely aware that the interview had even happed!

Great fun from beginning to end.