Amy MacBeath

So last week I decided to do some filming back up north in the Highlands.  As I am doing a masters in multimedia journalism I thought it would be a nice addition to my portfolio.  The nice folk at Culloden Battlefield were very helpful and I have cracking footage of bogs, stones, a redcoat (not a real one, just someone dressed up) and a Jacobite (sort of a real one…Ray Owens makes a living out of being a very impressive Highlander!).  It was all going reasonably well considering I was filming alone…apart from the gales, brilliant sunshine, rain and hail stones – all at once!  So when it came to doing a wee piece to camera I appeared a drowned rat with blue cheeks in front of the camera trying to talk about Culloden in the howling wind.  Disaster! 

When I came to filming in town it was better news – the sun was shining, the sky was blue and the riverside looked all pretty and green.  Even old Flora at the castle looked better than I remembered when I took her picture.  But as always you get that one comedian….as I am trying to hold very still and film up the river from the bridge some rather annoying individual thought it would be funny (and of course altogether original) to honk their horn right behind me.

All in all I hope my filming expedition went as well as I think it did and that my short documentary will look at least semi-professional.  Plus the weather ’effects’ will surely add a bit of authenticity to the piece. Spielberg, however, can relax for now!