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A few months back I embarked on a new project. The idea was to try to and marry two of my interests: Adventure riding and filming
Now I am by no means an expert at either, in fact you could probably say I'm new to both, but as always I tend to throw myself ambitiously into new projects. The result is a documentary series that I'm hoping will be of interest to other people. There will be 3, maybe 4, episodes of approximately 20-25mins that I will release online as they are completed. I also intend to put them on a DVD when I've finished all of them.
At the moment I'm putting the finishing touches on the first episode and hope to release an episode each month between Feb and May. I plan on finishing the DVD for May as well.
This trip turned out to be quite eventful with many unplanned twists and obstacles. You could call it bad luck in some circumstances, but I choose to call it adventure.
It also served to broadened my understanding and experience of the dark continent (well a corner of it at least). It's very easy to live in South Africa and not truly understand what it means to be an African.
WildDogs features in the series in both the preparation for the trip and also the chance meeting of a few WildDogs during the trip. There is also a guest appearance of Charley Boorman (okay a 5 second clip. Here's hoping I don't get sued).
I'll probably do a promo video in the near future. But for the meanwhile some photos will have to do in wetting the apatite.
[edit] Looks like links are broken. Head over to here: https://www.facebook.com/graveltravel/photos_stream [/edit]
If this project is of interest to you, I would appreciate your support at:
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Gravel-Travel/128976263835041
If I can gather some supporters in one single place it might add weight to the project, should I choose to take it to a production company or market the DVDs.
But obviously I'll post updates here as well.
Now I am by no means an expert at either, in fact you could probably say I'm new to both, but as always I tend to throw myself ambitiously into new projects. The result is a documentary series that I'm hoping will be of interest to other people. There will be 3, maybe 4, episodes of approximately 20-25mins that I will release online as they are completed. I also intend to put them on a DVD when I've finished all of them.
At the moment I'm putting the finishing touches on the first episode and hope to release an episode each month between Feb and May. I plan on finishing the DVD for May as well.
This trip turned out to be quite eventful with many unplanned twists and obstacles. You could call it bad luck in some circumstances, but I choose to call it adventure.
It also served to broadened my understanding and experience of the dark continent (well a corner of it at least). It's very easy to live in South Africa and not truly understand what it means to be an African.
WildDogs features in the series in both the preparation for the trip and also the chance meeting of a few WildDogs during the trip. There is also a guest appearance of Charley Boorman (okay a 5 second clip. Here's hoping I don't get sued).
I'll probably do a promo video in the near future. But for the meanwhile some photos will have to do in wetting the apatite.
[edit] Looks like links are broken. Head over to here: https://www.facebook.com/graveltravel/photos_stream [/edit]
| Synopsis: Gravel Travel is an independent documentary series filmed in South Africa and Lesotho. It follows 3 riders as they travel around southern Africa, from the built up cities in South Africa to the remote mountain villages in Lesotho. It tries to explore the disparity between urban and rural Africa and how the 2 intermingle. It also follows the problems experienced by these 3 riders, whiles tackling remote terrain, and the unexpected journey they take whiles trying to resolve these problems. |
If this project is of interest to you, I would appreciate your support at:
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Gravel-Travel/128976263835041
If I can gather some supporters in one single place it might add weight to the project, should I choose to take it to a production company or market the DVDs.
But obviously I'll post updates here as well.
