Fact Not Fear and CoronaTime

I was asked to make a ‘Day in the Life’ film to be included in the latest episode of Fact Not Fear. Now on Episode 4, Fact Not Fear is a series on the Coronavirus pandemic featuring mostly retired journalists from all over the world telling the real story of the place they are living.

I started off by recording the music. The ticking clock was actually the foundation of the project as so much of this lockdown period has been about how slow and how fast time can move, sometimes at the same time. I then built up the track and finally adding the tenor sax part.

At the same time as recording the music, I was shooting video on my X-T3, GoPro, and Drone. I then put the whole thing together in DaVinci Resolve. You can see the full episode of Fact Not Fear above, and my contribution below. Our newest member of Kage Collective, Neale James, does the links on this. Neale is a photographer, but was a BBC DJ many years ago. Phil Payne has a film in this episode too, but he also puts these programmes together.

This Will Be The Past Some Day

Fujifilm X-Pro2, 35mm f2, 1/1000th Sec, f4, 500 ISO, Classic Chrome film simulation

I write many blog posts that just end up getting left as drafts on my website. Some I don’t get round to finishing on time and they are out of date before I hit publish. Some are rants about gear that have annoyed me, but I think twice about bitching about.

I was looking through my drafts today and I came across this one that I wrote back in September 2017. I didn’t think it was worth putting out at the time (maybe it still isn’t) and I was about to delete. But after reading it, I was surprised how it tied in with the current Coronavisus lockdown.

SEPTEMBER 2017:-

This is a picture from this years Edinburgh Fringe Festival. If you haven't been before, the Fringe is like a huge street party that goes on for weeks and has non stop performers and freaks (and that's just the public). I remember looking through the viewfinder of my X-Pro2 as I was about to take this shot and being reminded of a picture that hangs on the wall at my barbers. It's a photograph from the early 1900s that was taken in the small village where I live in Central Scotland, probably something to do with the first World War. A large gathering like we don't often see these days. Lots of suits and hats and the best Sunday dresses. But as I looked through my viewfinder at the scene above, I sort of saw it from the future looking back (probably prompted by my memory of that old picture I mentioned). What will people of 2117 see in this picture? Will the Fringe still be around? Will they wonder what this was all about? Will public gatherings even be legal by then? Maybe this will be one of those old fashioned 2D still pictures that don't have any movement or depth? And those mobile phones were so last century :o) Hopefully it's not used as a pre-nuclear war picture.