Ok, I am going to level with you here. I was really looking forward to this trip. Indianapolis is only about an hour drive from where I live, but that puts the city just far enough away to make it impractical for a day trip, or just to be able to roam around the city for a while and get a bite of food. There are many reasons why I was excited about going to Indy, one of them being my wife's birthday weekend, and the other being that I am new to film making. Cities just make an exciting place to shoot video because of all the architecture and just everything that is going on around every street corner. I had this image in my head that I was going to shoot a lot of amazing footage and have a big breakout moment.
So as I mentioned in my previous post that I received an unexpected day off and was able to go to Squire Boone Caverns, and that I ended up sleeping until noon. So since I slept half of the day, I was not able to experience and enjoy everything that the park had to offer, including the zip-line tour. I should have taken that as an omen that things were not going to go as I have envisioned it and nothing would go as planned. Late Friday night, July 1st, I viewed the weather forecast from my trusty smartphone and yes, 80% chance of rain......For the entire weekend. This is something that I did not expect in early June when I booked the hotel for my wife's birthday weekend.
We wake up early Saturday morning, July 2nd, pack our things and head to Indy. Our first stop was the Indianapolis Zoo. This was something we had planned to do all along on our first day because we could not check into our hotel room until 3 pm. So the plan was to spend the morning at the zoo and then check into the hotel later that evening. In this plan we were successful. The rain had not yet arrived, but it was definitely cloudy. I enjoyed the cloud cover because it made the temperature cooler and more enjoyable. As you can see in the first video, there were many people out enjoying the zoo and I captured what I believed to be amazing video.
Later on we check into the hotel and roam around the city to get a feel for where everything was and to scout out some great places to shoot video, time lapse, and so on. Indianapolis does truly offer many exciting places for these activities and on future visits I will be exploiting these locations for some great vlogs. But unfortunately on this trip I did not get to do this. Our weekend there was from July 2nd thru July 4th, with July 3rd being when most of my filming would take place. Rain, rain and more rain. Not only did we have non stop rain, but it was an extremely cold rain with hail. So early on the 4th after eating breakfast, we called it quits and went home. I shot what I could so at the very least, I could have some video to practice with. Overall, it was not the trip that I had expected and envisioned, but I do feel like I did pull out two decent videos from the weekend. I had fun playing with the footage anyway :) Have a great day and please subscribe!
Cameras Used:
Fujifilm FinePix XP80 Waterproof Digital Camera (This camera was used for most of the sped up footage in my first video. The people at the zoo, at the mall, and on the the sky bridges)
Canon Vixia HF M41---I do not believe that this camera is available for purchace anymore so click here for a newer version of this. I used this camera for most of the video at the zoo and on the second day of shooting. All of the rain scenes were shot with this camera.
Canon Rebel T2i -- This camera is now obsolete. You may be able to find it on ebay or something, but the new versions of this are so much better. I believe my next camera purchase will be this one. But anyway, All of the true time-lapse footage was shot with the T2i. I did have to buy a Neewer Shutter Release Timer Remote Control to have time-lapse with the T2i.
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