Corfe Castle is one of those eerie places that both intrigues and mystifies you whenever you visit it.

If you stop to think for a moment as you walk around it you can’t help but be in awe of its majesty and yet be baffled that anyone could order its almost complete destruction. In its day it must have been a majestic sight, especially from below its ramparts, as seen from the village and even at a distance of several miles.

I photographed it just after sunrise on a cold October morning using a DJI Mavic Pro 2. Manually flying that drone in careful circles, traversing around the monument whilst keeping at a safe height and distance was not an easy task but very rewarding nonetheless. I was pleased with the raw footage as it captures something of the way the remains of the Castle still dominate its surroundings.

The video footage was edited in DaVinci Resolve. The soundtrack was composed for the video by me also as part of a series of musical Evolutions I’m soon to publish. The music was composed and mixed in Logic Pro and comprises several tracks of sound design created in Omnisphere and Trillian. It also features some of my bird song sounds captured in field recordings on Coombe Hill and edited in iZotope RX10.

The soundtrack has significant low frequency content so I would strongly advise the use of good quality headphones while watching the video. iPhones and iPads cannot reproduce those sounds accurately enough to get the most from the work.

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