With a title like that you'd think i was finishing my blog though actually I'm referring to my documentary. I began filming Capoeira groups in Penang, Kuala Lumpur, Bali, Jakarta and a quick stop in Singapore though I wish I had more time as I'm missing a massive capoeira festival in Singapore. Due to a massive cock up by the airline I bought my ticket from I was sold the wrong type of ticket - an inflexible one so changing dates was impossible. Perhaps its just as well as I have a number clients at home wondering when I shall be returning to work for them.
The journey was epic hopefully the footage is good I hope ... all 40 hours of it! I recorded some amazing sounds for use in the film including of course the usual capoeira songs and instruments but also random people like a guy next door to me in the hotel who played me some Brazilian Shoras on his mandolin and a girl singing Charles Tenet's 'La Mer'. Some of the stuff I caught on the beach in Bali was beautiful and some of the games are great but I have realised that documentary is not going to be game heavy and yet I'm not going to have two much of a talking heads approach.
Now comes the hard part organising all the footage and then doing a conceptual paper edit. As the story and characters emerged during filming I'll have to change my original plans and cut two versions of the film together - one 40-45 minute version for an hour slot on TV and one full length 1h30min version for the groups who all want to see themselves.
Fingers crossed my friend Ben Strebel will be able o help me out with the edit. He's a really talented editor and visualist check out the new Stereo MCs video which he had a hand in producing...
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