A film to critique

A few of you know that among the projects I've been doing here in Burundi, there has been one large project for my good friend Simon. I'll be posting more about it in the future but I'll just put a video below that we shot in Uganda many months ago. Simon will be off to the states, showing videos, preaching, and challenging the church, networking, serving, and doing all sorts of things, but one of the things he'll be doing is showing and selling these videos, and the funds will go to support several ministries in Burundi. I'll elaborate in person, and via blog again in the future... this is just a sample of sorts.

What I remember about this video: The road trip was a blast, and it was tiring. Four guys, Myself, Simon from England, Charles from Scottland, Isaac from a bit of eveywhere. Long trip. Charles opperated the second camera, and I gave him a 5 min lesson on how to use a camera, stuck all the settings on auto and let him rip. This is also the first film I've done that has 90 percent of the audio done after the fact... which was fun and monotonous. The hardest thing was having simon do all his lines again, then matching his voice with his mouth movements, which in the industry is called ADR. But all the water and wind is fake as well. Soundtrack is by some new contacts in England, Sanj and Chris, who I'm happy to get to meet in a week. We have some good out takes that will go on the dvd... this film was a blast to make. I just wish i could have a second take on making it because i learned how to shoot bungee jumping now... which was tricking, tracking from a bright light source to a darker light source, with varying speeds depending on how tight the bungee was. Simon jumped nine times, i think, setting a record for most consecutive jumps in a row.