Monday, July 5, 2010

Part XXVI: AWOL II a.k.a Fun with Editing

Dear readers, I am sorry. I know that on Thursday morning as you were celebrating the nation's birthday you looked to your trusty blog and ... nothing. I left on Wednesday and booked it back home to Ormstown/Montreal for a truly amazing weekend. I saw friends and family, made some sweet Canada Day money coming second in a foot race and enjoyed copious amounts of delicious food.
So that's that and today is back to work, back to reality and back to freaking out. Actually, when I woke up today it was rather zen. Tadoussac was covered in a think fog, everything was still and silent. It was like waking up in a dream, and boy did it ever calm my nerves. That and the 10 degree weather, seriously, it's 10 degrees out, stop complaining Montrealers. Maybe it's because I'm still exhausted and still recovering from the weekend and slightly hopped up on cold medication (yes, I have a cold in July) but the end seems close. There is a light at the end of the tunnel. Don't get me wrong, I love this job. Everyday I'm learning something new about editing, storytelling, scripting and my own abilities and having lots of fun, but I am looking forward to that moment when I type the last word and hit save. I'm proud of what I have so far and since I'm not in film production and by no means a technology expert, I hope that the storytelling/journalistic ability will really come through for me.

With a exactly a month left I have a game plan. Video One will be shot by Sunday and the only thing left after that is a little archival footage. Video Two will be shot for the most part by Saturday and video three is slated for next week.

On a totally unrelated topic, I finally got my photos from the kayak extravaganza this weekend. They were being held hostage in a foreign phone but I pulled a little Noreiga magic and removed them.
So today features a little scrapbook of the experience but cannot accurately depict the crazy. So, enjoy!

Sean's car never looked so good



ADVENTURE!



Campsite at Anse a Tabatiere


Sean cooking with his homemade oven mitt. It's two socks.



In tune with nature... as a tripod.

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