After suggestions for filming a long term transformation

[platypus]

Hi folks,

I'm after ideas on how I can film a "time-lapse" over several weeks, potentially months. To give the project some context, we're buying a business that is in need of a total refit. However it is a very busy, full time business, and whilst we'd like to shut for 2-3 weeks to gut and refit it, it just isn't feasible. So the likelihood is we'll approach it a room at a time, save for major jobs like the electrics. I'd very much like to film, over time, the transformation to make a video of it for my wife.

The only real way I can think of doing it is to buy a couple of powered go pro type cameras, stick them in the ceiling, record hundreds, potentially thousands of hours of footage and then just work through it laboriously in what little free time I have, meaning I can put together a video some time by 2035, just in time for us to sell up and retire .

There must be a better way, and I thought I'd ask if anyone has any, and indeed any other suggestions for a very much amateur trying to undertake such a project.

TIA.

 

[platypus]

That sounds like a good idea @Kenai, if you are able to find out what cameras they are that'd be great but I'll do some searching.

The CCTV is an option but we might not have that fitted before the refit starts unfortunately.

 

[platypus]

Thanks @AyeAyeAhoy! I was originally going to get a much more expensive construction camera but the Bushnell 20 Prime looks perfect for what we need and its only £120, a real bargain. We've gone for that!