I filmed some of my sketches near Qatar academy where I found a lot of ants near the trees, but in the weekend I wanted to see if I could film better quality videos in our backyard at home. one of the difficulties with filming with my iPhone was that my hands were shaky and I couldn’t follow the ant without it getting out of the frame every second. I looked like a creep.
when I went to film at home I wanted to try and film with my canon camera because I thought it will allow me to get nicer shots but it was a disaster, it was a hundred times harder to film with the camera than to film with the iPhone, it was so heavy and it made my hands shake even more. I don’t think that a tripod will help me much since I need to be close to the ground to be able to film and follow ants with my camera. So I borrowed a mini tripod to stabilize the phone and it worked better to film the ants close up. I filmed better more stabilize footage and tried to edit it in an interesting way. At first, I thought I’ll just use only one piece of footage where the ants were picking up little pieces of rocks and throwing it out to build their nest/house. but then I decided to use some other footage that I thought is worth including in my video and used the footage where I followed the ants.
I had no idea of what kind of sound that I could use but then it was suggested to me that I try and make my video funny by using sounds that are similar to what they use in parody music videos without music. and I”m glad that I tried it because it was hilarious and I enjoyed making this short video and making it a fun experience.