Baby Steps

Since I have decided to wait until Spring break for most of my filming, I'm temporarily shifting my focus to filming techniques rather than actual material for sketches. This weekend, I will be hiking up on Monte Sano Mountain in Huntsville, AL. I will be bringing my camera along in hopes that I'll be able to shoot some visually appealing shots. I have hiked on this particular many times before, so I have some particular shots in mind that I want to capture.

A stream up on Monte Sano

For starters, I would like to be able to film some deer while I'm up there. There is a trail I take that usually has a good amount of them. Hopefully, the weather will be nice enough for them to come out. Secondly, even though I am deathly afraid of them, it would be cool to film some snakes. I have (fortunately) rarely ever seen a snake up on Monte Sano, so I doubt I'm going to be able to capture one on film. Finally, I 'd like to be able to film the goats that live on the mountain. Fortunately, I know a place a little ways off a main trail where the goats will gather from time to time. I've tried to get several videos/pictures of them before, but every time I have the opportunity I have only had my iPhone with me.

Extremely grainy photo of goats

It's kind of hard to tell that there are goats in the above picture. The first one's head and neck in poking out from behind the tree (it has a black head and a white body). The other goat is directly above it in the picture, standing on a rock face (it is mostly brown, with a dash of white).