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The Living Skies

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Sometimes we're to busy with our lives to see what's going on above us.

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David Rowland

March 17, 2008 01:51 PM

Not if you're a pilot! A pilot is always watching the skies, it's in their blood. I suspect sailors do as well.

When I'm up in the air, it's like I'm closer to heaven; I can't explain the feeling.

— First Officer Jeffrey Gagliano, who died on AA 4184.

Nice video! An excellent job of putting the poem to video. It really tells the story.

Shiv Kumar

March 18, 2008 09:01 AM

Now that's what I call creative Kevin! I love how you added a voice over, chose a poem and snyched the video.

So what came first, the poem or the video?

Kevin Railsback

March 18, 2008 05:02 PM

Actually, it all came at once.
I told the guy writing the poem what I had access to shooting and said this is the idea and this is what I can shoot.
So I was shooting the footage as he was writing the poem.
I'd email him and say I got a cool eagle silhouette shot and he'd incorporate it into the poem.

We only had three weeks to put it together and with my schedule that usually means one day or maybe two days to shoot and edit all these pieces together.

For instance, "Wild No More" was shot in the morning and afternoon and then edited, compressed and uploaded for the film challenge deadline that night.

One of these days I plan to actually do a film that I can spend some tine on. Since I have very limited free time I have to rush around and shoot as much as I can and then hope I can put something together.

I finished a film I was doing for my wife while I was in Hawaii last October on the flight back home.
I hopped off the plane, she asked how it was and I played the video. :)

I'd upload it here but I don't have the music rights licensed.

Peg Futrell

March 18, 2008 08:08 PM

I think this is a beautiful piece of work. My favorite part, besides the "wholeness" of it -- integrating the poetry with the film -- is the last shot following the geese from the skies to their soft landing spot.

Shiv Kumar

March 19, 2008 09:57 AM

Kevin,

That's an interesting story. One would never know all this just by looking at the video.

Willem Van den Broeck

March 28, 2008 12:43 PM

Great timelapses, great last shot. Some wildlife you capture with the camera.

Susan Burris

April 23, 2008 03:01 PM

Wonderful!

Kevin,
I'm not a videographer or a music person, just someone who loves art and I love this! It is such a fabulous feeling to experience art in the form of video, music and poetry all at once. Just like the difference between Shakespeare interpreted on stage versus reading it silently and alone, you made each form more accessible by providing three paths of experience. BRAVO! If you could work some classic English poetry or some early American writers this way you would have a gold mine. Literature teachers the world over would send a rousing cheer. And who knows what kind of budding film makers, poets and musicians you might inspire...

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"Born in Chicago as the son of a career Marine Corps father, travel was in my blood from an early age. Two tours in Washington, D.C. made me a regular at the Smithsonian's Natural History Museum where I marveled at the magnificent creatures that were on display there. From an early age I wanted to capture the incredib

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