Filming Planes

Filming Planes
To gain footage of airplanes flying. We went out and shoot several different planes flying over central London, it was important that we gained footage of the planes in as many different weather conditions, so that we could match up the footage to previously recorded images of the gherkin Tower.
The footage had to have an amateur feel about it, so getting the camera to shake the right amount as if it had been recorded on a hand held camera was not something that you can judge at the time of filming as it will not be till the editing process that you see how the two clips piece together.
Examples of films that have used the same camera technique are Cloverfield and Blair witch project. We found the footage shot to be hard to edit, and needed manipulated a lot, so that the two run seamlessly together.