Deconstruction

If the trip home is as smooth as the trip here, it'll be OK, he thought. It was still raining hard in Port Macquarie, with today being the geataway day. Funny thing about time, he left Sydney at 2:40 and after 14 hours in the air to SF and another 2 up the coast to Seattle, he got home at 2:49 the same day. Lovely, tell that to my lumbar.

It appeared that the NEW and IMPROVED (there is a reason why that is an advertising and promotional catch-phrase) RCV format of shooting mid-pack from a motorcycle using the Figrig Pro-Plus, and the tweaked camera settings, provided the best video yet. The color was superb, contrast crisp and overall dynamics a 100% improvement over last years initial effort. Call it a learning curve, call it R&D, call it experience, one thing was for certain, this video was HOT. The Sony HD5 however was NOT. Pictured above is the deconstruction of the camera as he tried, successfully, to recover the tape from the battered camera body. Trough the process, he was amazed at the technology in its construction and design, and was now anxious to splice the tape together and see if the drama captured on HD was equal to the live version.

It had been a good trip, productive despite the rain. The real work begins upon return to the post production process, where all the effort of capture and creation is deconstructed, pixels are re-arranged and the final product is assembled.

Sometimes the best way to build a better product is to take apart what you have and put it back together, pice by piece. In that regard it's a lot like triathlon, and even more like life; Easier with a little love in the mix.
Cheers, mates! Hope to see you in Busseltown in December.