This is the story of how this video is gonna come to be...
So I called off work Saturday so I could wake up at fucking 5:40am to meet up and roll to Kilkare with Zerolift.
Packed my bag up with the following:
Panasonic GH-1 M4/3 Camera (shooting in 720p 60fps)
Stock 14-140mm Lens
Canon f1.8 50mm
Sigma 28mm Mini-Wide
Canon HV20 Camera(shooting 1080i 24fps for time lapses i suppose)
Glidecam
Should Mount with pistol grip and rails
Generic Shotgun Mic
$12 Tripod cuz I didn't wanna lug around a shit heavy Bogen I prolly wouldn't even use
Charger and cords
Extra Sd cards and Tapes
Brandon came with to shoot with his Canon 550D with stock lens, some 300mm lens, and some crazy ass fisheye. I don't understand all this photography shit really. I'm a video guy. In fact, I didn't take a single still the whole day(any stills in this build will be Brandon's or taken from video.) Actually, I don't even like filming. Editing is my thing.
Anyways, I wake up to a frigidass hella-windy day with about 2 hours of sleep only to be fueled by energy drinks. I felt like total walrus shit with those ugly black/brown fish picking at it to say the least. I started testing my equipment only to find my Glidecam is weighted for the camera only and not my rig and did not bring any additional weights. So I ditched the shoulder mount since the Glidecam is more portable, has a quick release, and can also act as a tripod. Even with Mega O.I.S. on and destroying my sorry excuse for a battery, the glidecam seemed to be the only reasonable way to get a somewhat steady shot. Shoulder mount might have worked, but its both cumbersome and uncomfortable.
Walking around in grumpy as hell mode, I see drifters and their shinnanigans (such as pictured below lol) as well as an army of other soul stealing individuals and their media counterpart machines (however, I think Mark was the only person with a solely video capturing device so props to that.) Troubled by all that surrounds me and the current condition, I relinquish from social activity and basically stick to recording of only vehicles, those of which have no judgement of a tiny Asian kid with what would appear to be an unnecessary amount of equipment. 
Lines of smoke begin to form on the echoing track as the temperature raised slightly. Honestly I was so pumped for this event to happen, but I found myself filming it only out of sheer boredom and the hopes of having something to edit... someday. Even now I draw a blank, but eventually something made me think, well I'm here, might as well make SOMETHING out of it. Perhaps it was all of the rubber inhaled, or perhaps it was repetitive nature filming at this track so often. Either way, I managed to get 2 hours worth of video spanning near 300 clips of footage. I've just now started to import said clips, and I'm actually kinda surprised at how they turned out. I feel that when I film an event, I don't really get to experience the event. When one eye is focused on a 3" lcd and the other has a skewed view of the environment, its not really something that can be "taken in" as opposed to just a normal spectator. Viewing the captured footage is somewhat of a newfound Deja Vu and even moreso the images captured by another person. Brandon has 917 images/videos that I grabbed from him, each familiar yet awkward.
So upon leaving the moment the event ended, I have put off editing the video(now also being a distraction from putting effort into the video.) I have captured about 50 of my 300ish clips. A tedious task of deciding what is worth taking of valuable disk space and/or being a hindrance to production. Out of what I have reviewed, I do have a somewhat positive feeling towards this project. A project which my only reward will be self satisfaction and the satisfaction of a handful of viewers. Yet, that pleases me.
One shot (out of what I captured so far) that stands out to me is a shot of Bill Cook. Quite cleanly executed run and not terribly filmed. I went ahead and applied some image stabilization and color processing to the clip. All in all it took about 30 mins, which is about normal. I do that for just about every clip that makes it into the final draft. If you think that is dumb, well it probably is. But sometimes its worth it whether you can tell or not. In the image below, the box in the middle shows the normal clip. The one on the right is the edited image. The final video can be seen here http://vimeo.com/11068048 .
Well that's it for tonight...
"Quick" Clip: Bill@MDU R1 from Tri Tri-Rudolf on Vimeo.
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