It is only two days to the première of the Brit Rock Film Tour
at Rheged. This includes a 30 minute film of my Wainwright run together with three
other films all put together by Al Lee. I am getting quite excited and nervous
about this. To go to the première where quite a bit of the film is about me will
definitely be an interesting experience, especially as I have not seen the film
so I have no idea how I will come across and what I said.
The film Trailer is well worth a watch (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eG7XrXJ004s).
My Wainwrights run does not look very exciting compared to the other bits: including
Rob Jarman doing some mad mountain biking and Julian Lines some amazing climbs.
Hopefully the story will come through in the 30 minutes about my Wainwrights
run. I am sure there will be lots of bit
of me suffering but also some bits of the beautiful Lake District scenery.
To see some of the amount of effort required to produce a
good film is really enlightening. I spent three days filming with Al before I
started. We did some filming around my house but also went up Blencathra each
time carrying really heavy film equipment. This included a Hexacopter one day
and a jib another (which was really heavy to carry but we could not use as it
was too windy!).
For the run we had Handy Cams for my support team to use, to
catch the moments when I was really suffering or the amazing views. They did a
great job and took about 15 hours of recording. It has been a major effort by
Al to then pick out all the best bits. Al (together with Rob Jarman) then tried
to get some high quality footage each day. But he found this a bit of a
different challenge compared to a climbing film. The first day he and Rob
carried all the heavy equipment up to Hay Stacks. However, I approached on a
slightly different line than they were expecting so the shot was not quite
right. On the second day they climbed up Yewbarrow in amazingly beautiful
weather but it clouded in about 20 minutes before I arrived. Later that day
they climbed Scafell but it started to drizzle just before I arrived. Al was getting tired and fed up from all this walking up and down Wainwrights with heavy kit and not even getting any good shots. Later in
the week he tried to get a man with a paraglider and an attached motor but again there were problems as I
was on High Street and the guy could not
find me.
After that things went better with the filming. The next day
the paraglider man found me a couple of times. Then Al got some great shots on
Skiddaw and on the final day he got a helicopter and got some great shots in
stunning weather.
I will update this blog when I have seen the film, unless I hide for a while because I have said something really stupid!
http://www.rheged.com/brit-rock-film-tour-world-premiere/
