Blaze the Corn Snake

[Ron Hunter]

This weekend I created a 2 minute video about my son Josh and his corn snake, Blaze. The video basically describes how to care for a corn snake and it contains a pretty cool "feeding sequence" with close up shots of the snake feeding on a small mouse.

This video was new for me in a lot of ways:
- I used artificial lighting for all shots.
- I used Rebel T4i for "interview" shots and HV30/HFR400 for "feeding" shots
- ATR3350 lav mic and Zoom H1 recorder used for audio.
- I actually created a script/shot list for this video.

The snake took over 10 minutes to eat the mouse but I condensed it to around 30sec. I'm really pleased with how the colors and close-ups turned out. I did not do any color/exposure/WB adjustment, everything was fully auto.

I look forward to your feedback!

[Dave McElderry]

Very nicely done! The closeups of the snake were great, including color. Really got a feel for the beauty. Pretty efficient critters, only one mouse per week.

[Steve Grisetti]

I agree. Very nicely shot!

[momoffduty]

Nicely shot Ron! Your son is a natural and this looks like a segment from kid's science channel. Ok, I will admit I did fast forward part of the mouse eating....the closeups were too real for me (which means your shots were very, very good!).

[Chuck Engels]

I agree with everyone else, very well done. Nice change of shot angles was great, a real professional editing job

[Ron Hunter]

Thanks for the wonderful feedback! Like I said at the top of the thread, this was an experiment on many fronts and I wasn't sure how it would all come together. During the filming Josh commented about all of the "stuff" I used "on set" and he asked if the video would be a pain to edit. I laughed and said "Nah". I learned quite a bit from this little project and I'm pleased with how it all turned out.

I also sent a link to Josh's science teacher. Hopefully that will score him some extra credit.

[Ron Hunter]

How was the audio for this movie? I struggled to balance the narration with the soundtrack and I'm wondering how the soundtrack came through.

[momoffduty]

The narration audio was clear and sounded good to me.

[IndyMike]

Well done Ron and audio was clear.

[Francesco Carzedda]

Very simple and perfect shots, reassuring, nice both static images and video picks.
Oh, synchronicity is really well done !

[Chuck Engels]

I thought the audio was just fine. If I don't have to adjust the volume while listening that's good