in praise of lowland sailing - and human mortality

dylanwinter

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in praise of lowland sailing

The other night on radio four I heard a wonderful programme about the song Brothers in arms.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01mqp1r

you really should listen to it

one of the singers has an astonishing voice

and also by chance a bloke emailed me about my journey through the English Lowlands.

It got me thinking

so if you fancy forcing youtube to make you let you watch this in as good a def as your computer will allow then go to youtube by clicking on the symbol on the bottom, then click the gear wheel and raise it to HD

using some speakers would be good as well

 
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vyv_cox said:
Very nice indeed.

Dylan, how do you manage over music copyright? I have tried to upload video with music soundtrack to Youtube but it was refused for copyright reasons.
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if you record the songs from youtube

they are already up there so you know that the artists have surrendered their rights to google

google takes the advertising revenue and gives a percentage to the artists agent - one of the big music owners - and keeps the rest

no idea how much of the money goes to the artist

I assume the artist agent gets $1 per thousand

this has music from three different youtube sources - so goodness knows how they sort it out


you have to edit the audio tracks anyway because google inserts two or three one second gaps into the audio so that people will not just rip it

the gaps would drive you crazy

so if you guys want to put music to your sailing films - which is a great idea because of the wind noise - then make sure the track is already on youtube and therefore licenced to google

as for this one

I assume that the film will not get picked up by a google algorhythm until it gets 1000 hits or so

a human might look at it if it gets half a million hits - but that is never going to happen with a sailing film

the sad thing from the point of view of the cameraman is that the shots look better when not compressed to heck by google - smoother transitions etc. Youtube is amazing..... but also terrrible. Offering stuff to youtube is always a gamble - sometimes it just cannot cope with the amount of movement in a video of moving water,
 
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It is a great song - a bit morose though for sailing

Achillesheel said:
Thank you Dylan, a very lovely film with wonderful arrangements of a great song.
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I always find winter sailing makes me introspective

maybe it is the long nights

maybe it is the books I read

I heard the radio prog about the song and started cutting it togther

I did get a post on the video on youtube from a bloke who said that it made him cry like a baby


"You shouldn't oughta make old blokes liek me cry. I lived through it. I sleep with it every night. Bloody hell."


Dylan






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Dylan, you have a rare talent. One that is appreciated by only us fortunate few.

Couldn't get the vid to work past 480, but I was mesmerised. Just how long did it take you to edit that? Will it ever show a return?
 
Showing a return is surely not the point, otherwise none of us would own boats. I do however often wonder how Dylan lives, eats, pays for housing etc and especially as he has the wonderful M/s Dylan.
 
Paddingtonbear said:
Showing a return is surely not the point, otherwise none of us would own boats. I do however often wonder how Dylan lives, eats, pays for housing etc and especially as he has the wonderful M/s Dylan.
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well it took about a day and half to chop together - part of it was finding the shots from the most amazing Ferry trip I have ever undertaken which was between the two islands of New Zealand.

well worth doing if you can one day chaps

that all belongs to youtube now - so no revenue for me - the lions share goes to Google - who ay for the infrastructure - a bit for the people who own the music - and maybe even a tiny bit for those who actually created the music..

Bless you guys for worrying about my financial survival. I am a jobbing freelance hack/camera operator, radio hack and wordsmith. Lumpy is the word for the cash flow but it has always been thus. Life was made much easier by the collapse of Equitable Life which meant that I was no longer giving them shed loads of money for my old age. We paid off the mortgage instead of giving it to Vanni Treves

You would be amazed how much money that releases and allows you to hunker down.

The starlings on Otmoor film continues to cover some of my sailing costs

as does the sailing journalism - bless you PBO amd SCA

plus I flog DVDs of a slow journey around the UK to the bandwidth/technoloy challenged


Live for the day is my motto and let the future take care of itself

If money were no object the journey around the Uk would have been done and dusted in two summers

running out of cash has been a good thing... I think

I am with Hayden

“To be truly challenging, a voyage, like a life, must rest on a firm foundation of financial unrest. Otherwise, you are doomed to a routine traverse, the kind known to yachtsmen who play with their boats at sea… ‘cruising’ it is called. Voyaging belongs to seamen, and to the wanderers of the world who cannot, or will not, fit in. If you are contemplating a voyage and you have the means, abandon the venture until your fortunes change. Only then will you know what the sea is all about.”
-Sterling Hayden
 
Beautifully cut together. The music really makes it work. I know you 'do' this sort of thing more than most, but, blimey, didn't that all just come together like a fav movie does eh?
Thank you for sharing

Edit. The shadow of Slug and helm passing along the low tide's bank, works so well..
 
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Lovely work Dylan,

It seems 'Mr Deep Voice' has found a new outlet for his talents , he normally does voiceovers for forthcoming American films , maybe he was getting short of work.

Dylan , it reminded me of one of your early Slug fims. What was it racers called boats like the Slug ?. Was it 'baths' or some thing worse ?
 
jakeroyd said:
Lovely work Dylan,

It seems 'Mr Deep Voice' has found a new outlet for his talents , he normally does voiceovers for forthcoming American films , maybe he was getting short of work.

Dylan , it reminded me of one of your early Slug fims. What was it racers called boats like the Slug ?. Was it 'baths' or some thing worse ?
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much worse

four knots hit boxes

but the s often got shifted two spaces to the right

the bloke with the voice is a finnish music teacher

he sings with some hot fins

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gerr99h0nS8

there was rather too much aaahing in their version

so I inserted Knopfler (what a name) and then went back to the base man once the aaaaahing had simmered down a bit

and finished up with a bit of piano lifted from yet another version of the song

you guys really ought to listen to the radio four radio program about the song

here

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01mqp1r

makes me proud to have worked on what is certainly the best speach radio station in the world

One of the reasons for sailing around the UK rather than anywhere else is that the thought of living on a boat without radio 4 is almost unbearable.

incidentally, here is the time line for the short video just in case anyone is curious about how things come together

I used shots from the past five years - once the cameras went HD



http://www.keepturningleft.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/timeline-1.jpg
 
Great clip - Brothers in arms is one of the best "war" songs ( along with - and the band played waltzing matilda - pogues did a great version)

The singer reminded me of robbie robertson - somewhere down the crazy river

Why the F.... arnt u on tv Dylan :D
 
You hit the right 'Note' here Dylan

What a 'tear-jerker' ..... especially the part with the Royal Marine 'Bish'.
 
dylan

the visuals if I can call them that are fabulous and remind me why, of all the sailing areas I have been in, I like the east coast the most ( and yes I know thats not the start sequence!). and the music is great - I have dire straits on my mp3 player.

but apart form the opening sequence with the mountains, they dont go together. you need piccies of the aftermath of african wars to go with the dialogue not seagulls!

that said I have put the clip in my bookmarks for the visuals alone.
 
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