Grand Canyon and Sedona Trip - Video

I shot this video during a recent trip to the Grand Canyon when my mother came to visit for graduation. I had about an hour of footage to edit from, for some reason some of my best shots didn't get recorded (I'm overwriting the tape and recording on an external digital card recorder, so I don't have to re-capture the video on a mini DV deck).

I had an extra shot of the baby coyote from up close, where I actually approached him and touched his head. He was weak and calling for his mother, and lay there under a tree. I gotta figure out why the digital recorder is not always capturing.

Everything was shot on a Sony HVR-Z5U camera, which was part of the Cannes award by the National Film Board of Canada. It's a great camera, I'm just not such a great cameraman and my moves are always jumpy when I'm zoomed in a lot.

I edited in Premiere and used a plugin called Magic Bullet Looks for quick dreamy-like looks or high contrasts. It took me about 4 hours to edit, I just picked the best shots and tried to get a somewhat narrative idea through different "acts" (coyote/death, canyon edge, dreamy sequence, Sedona wind).

And I was inspired by Matthew Brown (http://vimeo.com/11538086), but I have not a billionth of his camera or editing talents ;)