And so we start again…

Hello! And firstly – sorry for everyone who was following my last blog – so much has been happening over the last few months, I’ve deceided to start fresh and take down all those older posts. This blog will be more focuses on production aspects – equipment demos, editing blogs and the distribution process.

To fill you in briefly – since leaving school – I have been travelling with the TOPtoTOP Global Climate Expedition, filming their travels. We sailed in the Sydney Hobart Race in 2008, then went on up the east coast to Darwin – Indonesia – Borneo where we got some amazing footage of the beautiful endangered orangutans – and ending in Singapore. Now, after a few months of intensive editing work on some great projects here in Melbourne – I’m off to join them again!  And where else to begin but the highest mountain on earth??

Yup – tomorrow I leave melbourne kitted out with a new camera to India and Nepal – for corporate work and to continue the exciting documentary on the TOPtoTOP Global Climate Expedition. Follow the weekly expedition reports at www.toptotop.org!

Its seems a long time since I first worked on a professional, but small budget trailer back in 2007, when I was still in my final year of high school! It was the first of many exciting projects – but significant to me, as the starting point of what I will hope to be a long and inspiring career.

Having started so young- I have the advantage of not being afraid of new technology. Which is why  on this trip I will be using the Canon 5D with the new firmware update which only came out this week! Luckily I was also just in time for the UPDATE of the UPDATE – 2.0.3 was found to have an error in the C mode function ~ but I’ve updated mine just in the nick of time before I leave to 2.0.4!

I will be posting more updates about how the 5D system goes – trekking with camera gear – and editing on the go in hotel rooms and mountain ledges! It’s all very exciting stuff, so stay tuned.

The plan is to spend a week in New Delhi working on a corporate, then I will be flying to Nepal – where I will join the TOPtoTOP team on a 3 week trek to Everest Base Camp! Wish me luck!!

Thats all for now, I have some serious packing to do. But hopefully you will enjoy reading this blog, and I will have plenty of useful information for like-minded film-makers out there wanting to follow similar expeditions or projects. Especially regarding the new 5D!

(Don’t worry – down the track I’ll also post a full equiptment list – with recommendations and warnings after the trip about how it went!)

Cheers everyone, it’s going to be an exciting journey ahead…

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