The Grand Premiere of Our Viking Films

This morning we have watched our extremely good videos. 

For some of us it was a little bit embarrassing, because sometimes we had funny faces on.  We liked the videos because everyone had interesting things to do and say about Vikings.  Nobody was left out.  We were surprised by how good they were.

It was good that we could choose which videos to watch on the DVD.

We could tell that everyone had worked really hard on their videos.  It has taken us three months to make these videos, although it doesn't feel like it.  We worked in our groups and did a little bit each week about our different subjects. 

The finished videos were even better than we expected, even though they are shorter than we thought they would be.  Sometimes people made funny mistakes - and this made the DVD even more entertaining.

Today we have been doing some filming.   One of us held a banana up in front of the camera.  This was to explain what Viking long boats looked like. 

We also filmed ourselves rowing and complaining.  We were pretending to be Viking sailers.  We wanted to show what a Viking vogage was like.

When we came back inside we did some more research and wrote our voice overs.  Then we practiced them and said them into the voice recorder.

Then we recorded a piece to camera talking about the artifact from the museum about the boy called Olaf.

Lastly we watched what we had filmed today outside and inside.

We are really, really looking forward to seeing the finished video next week.

Filming a Wedding Ceremony

Today two of us got married - well, not really.  We were only acting.  This was for our documentary.  We were filming a Viking wedding ceremony outside the willow sculpture.  

The man gave his new wife a key to his house.  This is what the Vikings did when they got married.

While we were outside, we also filmed ourselves sewing seeds.  We got some sand from Year R and pretended that this was seeds and spread it about on the field.

The next thing we tried to film was a Viking long boat being pulled onto a beach.  We used sand to make a beach on top of a piece of blue paper (the sea).  But the camera wasn't working!  And we had a big audience.  Everyone wanted to know what we were doing and it was playtime, so everyone was outside.  It was really annoying!  People were crowding us and asking, "What are you doing?", "What is it?", "Why are you doing that?", "Where did you get that sand from?"...

But the most annoying thing is that the camera isn't working and we can't finish our film!!!