Drop into Provoking Lake
Adventures in capturing longform video
This week I got some footage from my recent hiking trip loaded off and put it to work on my podcast.
Looking back on my experience with media, I never took to making long sound recordings in the wild, but I seem to have taken to doing long video.
Both practices are quite meditative as you set the recorder up and you have to be still for a while - even more so with a sound recorder. Or you just leave the scene entirely and hope that it captured something.
The problem is that the recorder starts to run the show. For example, is it ok for my friend to throw a pebble into the water while I’m recording a sunset? His request was granted in this case, and it really made this video come to life as we got some intense ripple action, but for more strict recordists that would be unacceptable.
It all really comes back to the Seinfeld episode where Jerry is asked to bootleg a movie, and then he starts to take it too far and becomes neurotic about capturing it in perfection.
Alright without further ado, let’s get to it! Here is the Provoking Lake sunset combined with a performance back in my home:
If you’re interested in the trail that led to this lake in Ontario, you can read a post about someone else’s experiences on the Algonquin highland trail with a slightly different route. They sum up the mosquito situation quite accurately.
I’m almost finished my transition to the Ghost blogging platform, so I thought it would be good to write about how you can post to your blog more often, in a world where this seems to make absolutely no sense.
Alright I’m off!
Elliott
p.s. for a long sound recording, I did this episode of a thunderstorm last summer that people enjoyed.