Stir Crazy
Luckily, summer arrived this year, immediately stymieing the 'It's so grey and rainy and cold' critics. Of course, up to this point, no one was quite sure if summer would put in an appearance, but as you know, we got hit by a heatwave.
And no sooner did it arrive than the critics cry changed to 'It's too hot and muggy, bring back the grey'. During the heatwave I was at home, stuck in front of the computer, editing video footage from a two week surf trip to France. Apart from when I was out making more video of things in another hot zone - of which more in a later post.
The video footage, the two week stuff, consisted of nearly 100Gb of clips and stills, totalled nearly 10,000 files, and has taken (alongside PR, press and editorial work) the last three months to condense into a 45 minute promo film. Sifting stills, naming clips, timing them to music and the myriad finer points of tweaking footage into a narrative is massive multi-tasking job for someone more used pushing only one button on the camera. Editing, it has to be said, is fiddly and time consuming work.
The video is, however, very, very near completion and there will be a short version up online in due course.
The finalising of this project is a fact which has broadened both my ability to smile, and my horizon for the potential of getting back into the surf, since I have been largely missing from that playground for some time. Perhaps the promise of those fine September swells just around the corner spurred me on to finalise the last pieces. I'll certainly be Surfing Crazy when they arrive.
And no sooner did it arrive than the critics cry changed to 'It's too hot and muggy, bring back the grey'. During the heatwave I was at home, stuck in front of the computer, editing video footage from a two week surf trip to France. Apart from when I was out making more video of things in another hot zone - of which more in a later post.
The video footage, the two week stuff, consisted of nearly 100Gb of clips and stills, totalled nearly 10,000 files, and has taken (alongside PR, press and editorial work) the last three months to condense into a 45 minute promo film. Sifting stills, naming clips, timing them to music and the myriad finer points of tweaking footage into a narrative is massive multi-tasking job for someone more used pushing only one button on the camera. Editing, it has to be said, is fiddly and time consuming work.
The video is, however, very, very near completion and there will be a short version up online in due course.
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| 'Editor Crazy' would be an equally apt title |
The finalising of this project is a fact which has broadened both my ability to smile, and my horizon for the potential of getting back into the surf, since I have been largely missing from that playground for some time. Perhaps the promise of those fine September swells just around the corner spurred me on to finalise the last pieces. I'll certainly be Surfing Crazy when they arrive.
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