Today's shoot has helped us to become accustomed to the skate park's location, and to practice our camera techniques relevant to the project. We first approached the Lost Art skate shop, in order to speak with Mackey and to follow him up on his offer to provide contacts in the city. Unfortunately, he was not there and we'll have to wait until tomorrow for him to return.
As we arrived at New Bird, we scoped out the area and proceeded to shoot (with permission granted) some of the local skaters in action. Sadly, they were not willing to interview, but were quite happy for us to capture what we needed and to skate around us.
This evening, I have been able to begin transcoding 7D footage in Compressor on my Macbook, a process which will save a great deal of time in post-production. On the experimental film transcoding was extremely problematic and took up a lot of time, so it has been a relief to be able to get much of the process out of the way here without any difficulty.
Having viewed some rushes, the 7D footage is looking great, although I cannot look back very easily at the PD170 tapes, for obvious reasons. However, the GoPro footage captured by Jonny is very minimal. There are only 6 files, 2 of which are of the camera being shoved in people's faces in the hostel. I'm told that as a result of this, the battery died when we actually came to shoot.
Hopefully tomorrow there will be more GoPro footage available.
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