END OF THE DAY
So come the end of the day, when all the riders are heading out to dinner or relaxing at home, that is when the real work starts for me and Manu the Video cameraman. First up all the compact flash cards have to be loaded onto a hard drive, all files renamed, and then the editing starts. During a busy shooting day you can easily be shooting several thousand shots so if you don’t keep on top of the editing process, the workload can easily build into a ridiculous mountain and it can be almost impossible to catch up. During the shoot there really is no time for me to go out for food, so if I am lucky Craig will bring me something back from town while I crack on with the computer work. Otherwise just grab something out of the fridge and keep on trucking on the computer until I start falling asleep on the job. Yep a fifteen hour day is about the normal during the shoot, so it’s a full on job and flat out for over two weeks straight. Oh yes and before I forget, then there is the all-important back up of all the work you have done so far on the shoot; what sort of idiot would have done all that work, involving all that money and not have everything backed up at least once or even twice? Err well I must be honest here, I have had hard drives crash on me and it’s a nerve wrecking couple of days while you are waiting to see if all the files can be recovered. All I can say is never again! – back up, back up, back up is my mantra!