Test filming on the Lange Duinen
Encouraged by having found “the” boat yesterday, I took a trip today to the Lange Duinen, the large expanse of sand near the village of Soest where I intend to make a short film in the near future. There were four things I wanted to do;
- See how it looks in the winter, since I was last here in August.
- Test out the fancy video microphone I have just bought.
- Test out the DIY steadycam I built yesterday, loosely based on the instructions here.
- Find some nice places to film so as to be able to compose shots beforehand.
Everything went pretty OK, except that this little “desert” was not very “deserted”. What I mean to say is that there were people walking dogs everywhere, and the sand is quite churned up by footprints all over the place. It will not exactly evoke the unexplored Australian outback that I had in mind.
Thinking about it later though, it occurred that this might actually make the film more interesting, and certainly funnier – if it in fact becomes more about some lost traveller from the past stuck in the middle of Holland. A sort of refugee looking for a wilderness. Need to think it through a bit more.
