Impulse

When I fin­ished film­ing RAAM, I thought it was a dis­mal fail­ure. On top of being sick, I had allowed myself to be made crew chief of the rider’s team part way through the race, know­ing that I’d have to give up shoot­ing. The first two thirds of my footage are only from the first third of the race. I thought I had missed all kinds of story ele­ments — espe­cially the com­pe­ti­tion with the Brazilian team which egged our team on through so much of the race. I have to admit that this cyn­i­cism is a big rea­son why I pro­cras­ti­nated on edit­ing it.
Now that I’m re-reviewing it all one year later, I see that there’s plenty of stuff here — includ­ing bits about the Brazilians. It’s mostly peo­ple talk­ing about it instead of show­ing it, but it’s there. It’s amaz­ing what a lit­tle space in time and in emo­tion. (And, thanks to friend and doc­u­men­tary pho­tog­ra­pher Amanda Koster for giv­ing me the appro­pri­ate kick in the butt about keep­ing an opti­mistic attitude)

Related posts:

1. RAAM: edit­ing the hard­est race in the world
2. RAAM: still cranking
3. RAAM: movie edit­ing continues
4. OC Quattro near­ing fin­ish of RAAM 2009
5. Day 2 of shoot­ing