Bridport by Night

A labour of love, four months in the making. I moved to Bridport just over a year ago and immediately fell in love with the place. What better way to show my affection for such a place than to make a movie about it?

Shot on a Nikon D7000 camera, producing 16MP stills for a 25fps video. Some shots in this were 30 second exposures, meaning I had to stay with the camera for an hour and a half just to get six seconds of footage.

I see far too many touristy video features about the West Dorset coastline. Too many quaint holiday cottages and clichéd shots of people eating ice cream on the beach. This video was shot in the winter and, for a growing number of people interested in stargazing, shows that Bridport is a fantastic location for seeing the night sky. It is also beautiful at night.

I started experimenting with time lapse photography back in October 2011, producing promising results. Since then, my videos have come on in leaps and bounds and I am consistently producing my best work yet. By no means is this a finished work. Consider it Bridport by Night version 1. I will be getting a car soon, so this work may evolve to become the whole of Dorset by Night.

Follow me on Twitter: @DorsetScouser or visit my website: http://www.scousebysouthwest.com

Music is 'Arrival of the Birds' by the Cinematic Orchestra. I purchased the track on iTunes (http://itunes.apple.com/ie/album/arrival-of-the-birds/id297787201?i=297787336) and edited the sequence in iMovie.

Here is a breakdown of all the places in order they are seen:

1. Back garden of a house just outside Shipton Gorge
2. Road leading up to Vearse Farm, just outside Bridport
3. St. Mary's church, South Street
4. Hill climb heading towards Burton Bradstock
5. Looking up at the trees on top of Colmer's Hill, Symondsbury
6. West Bay Promenade, looking out towards Charmouth and Lyme Regis
7. View of Colmer's Hill, Symondsbury
8. Cliffs at West Bay Beach
9. Palmers Brewery in Bridport
10. Fishing boat at West Bay Harbour
11. West Bay beach
12. View of Bridport from Colmer's Hill
13. The Riverside Restaurant, West Bay
14. Looking out to sea at West Bay
15. West Bay Harbour
16. Newly refurbished Bridport Town Hall
17. Fish pass on the River Brit, behind Palmers Brewery in Bridport
18. Cliffs at West Bay
19. Asker Meadow (?) between East Road and Sea Road North / St Andrews Road
20. Red Brick Cafe, St. Michael's Trading Estate, Bridport
21. The Tea Station, West Bay
22. Fields near the footpath to West Bay, from Bridport.

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• Bridport
• night
• By Night
• West Dorset
• Dorset
• starscape
• stars
• star
• stargazing
• time lapse
• photography
• video
• 1080p
• high definition
• nikon d7000
• West Bay
• Shipton Gorge
• Burton Bradstock
• Symondsbury
• Charmouth
• Lyme Regis
• coast
• coastal
• Jurassic Coast
• cliff
• sand
• sea
• beach
• Colmer's Hill
• Palmers Brewery
• harbour
• boat
• water
• river
• Brit
• Riverside Restaurant
• Bridport Town Hall
• refurbishment
• refurbished
• restoration
• meadow
• Red Brick Cafe
• St Michael's Trading Estate

[SeanGenesis]

Wow nice! D7000 is a great camera as well. Wish to have one.

[umboodybanksie]

Thank you :). I know I can't afford one, but I'm eyeing up the D800 now. Incredible performance!

[Hobstar82]

Hi, awesome time lapse from a fellow Bridportonian!! What video/photo editing software do you use to make your time lapse videos. I'm pretty much only just starting out in the DSLR world, using a Nikon D5100. I have the free software that comes with the camera to tweak images but want some software for making the actual video. Have you had any dealings with Quick Time Pro for Windows? Or can you recommend any others? Thanks!

[umboodybanksie]

Hey there, sorry for the late reply. I'm lugging around a D7000, using iStopMotion and Final Cut Pro on the iMac. I think you can assemble image sequences together with Quicktime Pro, but dedicated stop motion software is much easier. Couldn't recommend any particular one for Windows, wouldn't know where to start I'm afraid!

[umboodybanksie]

Good lord you're opinionated. Inbreeding? Calling for the killing off of residents. Take your hateful comments elsewhere, because trust me, everyone who reads this will be laughing at you.

[darkwrld]

I just came back to see the video again, it's still amazing. :)

[lexifantastiq]

Why do you insist on being so spiteful? I cannot imagine what the entire town must have done to aggravate you so.

[LordTeaOfBiscuits]

heh same here dude, thanks for showing me this, just showed my mum and dad, you do find some great stuff mate :)

and @umboodybanskie you got some serious talent man, its so refreshing to see bridport like this, i live but 10 minutes away and ive never seen bridport quite like that!...what it would be to see the world through eyes such as those <3

[Navin14vij]

bridport rules from a fellow briportonian

[JackBarnett21]

Excellent piece of filming. Well done.

[MistressParamour]

I walked past you tonight you had your bike.,  I had 2 dogs. I live just below you near where you access borough gardens via the Tyard.

[umboodybanksie]

Don't be throwing stones now! Whereabouts are you?

[MistressParamour]

I have just realised by one of your vids where you live..... I am a stone throw away from you. ...I live in the same place.lol