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5/8 Weekly Summary

This week we were able to do some solid film work. We filmed most of the shots we needed from the ground for the XC video, and we were able to film Braithwaite's class hiking in the hill from the air. One thing we learned was that the wind is not our friend: it makes it very difficult to fly the drone precisely and smoothly, and it makes it very hard to use the extremely lightweight steadicam smoothee. Because the steadicam is so light, it just gets blown around by the wind, causing shots to either be unaligned or shaky.

Graduation is coming quickly, but we still have work to do. We need to edit the footage of Braithwaite's class, get additional shots for the Garden and XC video, and it would be awesome if we could make one more trip down to the coastline in order to improve the Pix4D model. This weekend there is a LAX tournament at HPA and we are going to try to get some footage of it. I don't know how I would be able to contribute because I am going to be playing, but hopefully Juan, Abe, or Nicky can get it done.

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