The plan was simple: learn how to make a short mtb video. I convinced some eager - yet foolhardy - riders from my local mountain bike club to spend a morning riding one of our favourite trails. The sun shone, the ground was in good condition and as they hit the trail sections, we got our angles angled and our sequencing sorted (actually, I didn't even know what 'sequencing' was until an hour into the shoot -and even then I didn't get it right!). We also had two different cameras, but I figured "what difference would that possibly make - they both record video!"...
So after four hours of riding, lunch beckoned and we all thought we had plenty of great footage and it'd take me a weekend to learn premiere pro (cos everyone on the internet gives the impression that's how easy it is) and craft a movie worthy of the space on anyone's shelf.... Move over Porter, let me take over...
Ha! Eleven months later and, having given up on PP and discovered some user-friendly software which didn't need a degree from film school to figure out how to drag a clip on to the timeline, the Frankenstein of home movie-making appeared... Sure, it's ugly, but it's a start...