I shot the footage in this video on a Friday I took off back in June. It was the first time I went out into the wild with my filters and lens. My phone looked comically obtuse in my hands and there was no hiding the fact from passerby that I was clearly filming everything around me. Guerrilla filming is not really my thing per se and it feels strange but it’s just something I’ll have to overcome if I ever want to produce anything meaningful.

I bought a variable ND filter because I was being cheap and didn’t want to switch out filters constantly but its limitations were apparent in this film, the bright daylight was just rocking its world and the extreme ends of the filter couldn’t handle it. Seems like I’ll have to get a darker one for my daylight filming. I also had some technical difficulties with my anamorphic lens. Unbeknownst to me the screw was a little loose and you can see it in the video when the image warps a bit. Eventually caught on and fixed it but the damage was done. Still, I like how this turned out.