David Tyler wrote:Neither Annie nor I have experience of making high quality movies, and I've seen enough excruciating youtube movies with amateurs talking to camera to want to stay away from that business. The expertise would have to come in from outside. However, my camera will take good quality movies, and I could perhaps wander around the boat at intervals, after work, pointing it at all the details, and then perhaps adding explanatory subtitles later. Like Annie, though, I'd be more comfortable with making a captioned series of still photos.
It's all in the editing. Just do it. Walk around, talk, point stuff out, keep the camera steady on things. If you fluff something, just stop and start again. The quality comes in the edit, not the filming (for the most part).
A movie that dollies around the model (and later the boat construction) is often more useful than photos, because you can see the three dimensions from the parallax, and get a better impression of size. Photos are great for studying details.
I think Roger Taylor did a pretty nice job of occasionally summing up his changes for Mingming II. His videos are very useful.
I wish I was nearby. I'd happily come and do it.
I do like the look of her. (The boat. Floozie's not my type.)