#41, Hawaii Videos Released

Let Us Catch Something Big, North Shore of Oahu, Hawaii, May ‘08, artistic view.

Within less than a week, I released four new videos, all of them from Hawaii: Fast Paddles, Sandy Beach, Evening Canoe, and Kite Surfers. The good weather permitted me to film in several places, now quite familiar with, over the period of two weeks. I have chosen for everything to happen on beaches, for a simple reason, no matter where you go - there is another beach there. And some of them are good, famous, and pleasant to spend time at. After some swimming in the Ocean for a while, I would start to film whatever was happening at that time. Hardly ever any script or much planning went into those videos. When I film in California, I usually sit down for a moment and decide where to go and what to shoot, things are a bit more organized. Over there I would grab my equipment bags and go. I wonder if this shows in my videos!
Now I am sitting and composing a new music that is going to end up in one of the next videos. A piano piece is almost done and sounds quite good, must say that is somewhat different from my previous pieces. Not sure what the next video is going to be about yet. I also brought some good quality audio recordings from Oahu, from beaches of course, might use those in some future videos as well.
For a while I was reading about shooting at short shutter speeds, from moving vehicles. That’s why I mention below The Filmmaker’s Handbook. An idea for a new video along those lines is brewing in my head now.

Breakfast: McCann’s Irish Oatmeal with some cinnamon, green tea, http://www.mccanns.ie.

Book: Steven Ascher & Edward Pincus, The Filmmaker’s Handbook, A Plume Book, ISBN 978-0-452-28678-8, http://www.penguin.com.