What did you do this Saturday? I helped Rhys unpick the iMovie edit of ATC and rebuild it in Final Cut. God I hate iMovie. I hear it used to be good – almost as good as Final Cut Express is now. And that's precisely the point. Why give away something for free with each Mac when you can up sale later. Now, I do know you can export an XML file, but it doesn't export the slugs (which you have to make), the VO, crops, soundtrack, but more importantly the timecode. So no, no more iMovie. Obviously.
Anyway, there's a lot of sitting around, tea, biscuits, making the characters do rave moves by manipulating arbitrary clips to shuttle back and forth, biscuits, looking at settings, short noises made by perplexed men, biscuits, swapping out drives named after characters in Peter Carey books and biscuits. So alleviate those dead moments when a clip is played over and over again, I've been reading the Adventure Travel Film Festival programme. It's on 3 – 5 June in Appledore Devon. Rhys is giving a seminar on how to do his job and they're showing a whole bunch of interesting stuff.
Cycle South – 1971 is about three guys who jump on their BSAs to drink and shag their way from Colorado to Panama. The clip here is a fan edit of the 90 minute movie, so the action is all out of sync. This edit goes straight for the hippie girl, dope and naked motocross section. So mind how you go, it's not safe for work. Especially if you work for The Man.
You think the Tour de France is hard? Try Ride the Divide. No yellow jerseys here and you 'll be racing 2700 miles of trails and peaks from Canada to Mexico. The divide is the Rockies and at the end each rider will have climbed around 200,000 feet. Many often race alone and without support.
In 1991, Irish filmmaker John T Davis set off with Vietnam vet, Beargrease to make an illegal 2000 mile journey across America. Shot on 16mm we learn about Beargrease's boxcar philosophy and his anger at modern America.
There's also a great sounding film called Headless Valley. It features regular couple Melvin and Ethel Ross journeying by canoe through the remote Canadian Northwest territories to reach the Headless Valley. The documented their journey on 16mm film. I've only seen a screen grab but it looks like the type of thing to be full of soft colours and sun-drenched vistas. I tried finding a clip on YouTube, but 'headless' is not the sort of search request you want to mess with.
Find out more on the Adventure Film Festival site
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