Holy moly I have gone and made a video:
Fortunately the sounds, image quality and balance of the finished Skyworks product is much much better, but it's still not bad for a GoPro camera. Afixing it on the outside of the helicotper was pretty nerve racking - but I put my new knot tying skills to the test as a backup in case the mount dislodged.
The sound is awful, the picture needs colour correction, the editing is sloppy (seems my aging Mac just cannae cope with 1080p footage) - but at the end of the day it looks pretty sweet!
We finally saw a Moose! Well three of them. In the middle of a bloody desert! We spent hours scouring the mountains of Montana where they are supposed to be, only find find them lurking where they shouldn't. Silly Moose. Is the plural still Moose, or perhaps Meese like Geese? Silly Meese. Yeah, that sounds good (despite being totally wrong, I'm sure).
Day four and we've settled into our groove. Despite terrible weather and a warning on thunder storms, we managed to dodge the worst of it successfully all day. Well, I say that - we were at times filming through the rain, but if you zoom in on a wide aperture you can filter out all the rain drops anyway so the footage still looked stunning. Richard got a bit wet in the front - it seems the Helicopter isn't that waterproof.
As we were flying along, Simon the pilot pointed out that we lack callsigns for when we radio Colin. So we are now "The Septic Chickens", calling "Mother Goose". Mother Goose delivered in spades today, bringing us Ice Cream to the landing pad at lunch time from Wyoming's famous Ice Cream parlour.
That combined with a huge burger and fries shortly after seems to have filled me up completed. I didn't even eat any supper!
The weather forecast is equally bad for today - but we are hoping to get off the ground and get up in the air regardless. Only two more filming days to go! How time flies.
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