i’ve been thinking. about the iceland travel video. what if the thing i set out to do is not what it actually turned into? what if there is a better way to use that footage? maybe the narrative i wrote in advance is a square peg, and the trip itself was a round hole.
as i look back on my footage, i realize that in so many of the clips, something happened to make it less than perfect. on the first day, the osmo mobile wouldn’t work because it was damp and drizzling outside. and the cheap action camera i bought on a sale at bhphotovideo produced footage that was barely usable. oh and of course there was that time the dji mavic air crashed into the only copse of trees in the whole damn country.
maybe the video i need to make is about all of the times my gear failed me, and how the pursuit of a travel video almost ruined my travel experience. that would be a more honest account than i’ve been envisioining all this time.
i still very much intend to make a travel video detailing the logistics of my journey in an infotainment format, which is what i set out to do in iceland, but maybe that is something i’ll have to accomplish on the next go round.
there are a lot of maybes here, and that is because i’ve still not committed to this idea. i may still move ahead with some version of the video i intended to make, while also making a video of the type i’m describing here as a separate item. i could see this working, as long as i find the time to actually do the work.