The making of a video. For www.i-am-specialized.com

This video was made for the “triathlon” part of the i-am-specialized website.

The a href=”http://www.i-am-specialized.com/triathlon” target=”_blank”>i-am-specialized website is aimed at being the public’s way of following Specialized riders’ racing and stories online. It is a new site and will mostly aim at internet video content. Internet video is the new TV.

I am honoured to be the 1st triathlete to have a video on the site.

Terrenzo and Macca will have videos soon…

The shoot started with swimming.

Bobby Behan – our Marketing Manager (and a few other things) used to be a pro triathlete himself, (we lived and trained together in Stellenbosch in 2000) so he knew exactly what needed to go into this movie. He sat in the director chair for 2 days.

Aaron Vogel just realized his dream job by becoming Specialized’s first in-house videographer. He says it wasnt really his dream job- he couldnt dream of a job where he could ride bikes and make movies AND get paid for it!

Anyway, Bobby decided we’ll kick off with swimming. And posing. Lots and lots of posing. I hate posing, but it was one of the many things I learnt about acting that fateful day….

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Posing to da max.  Oh yes, on the speedo issue- I’m old school (ie started racing tri in the late 80s) so I wear a speedo. End of story. At least its not lime green or pink. Like it was in
this picture from 1992!

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Gary Perkin took some still pics for “a day in the life of….”

Finally we started swimming…

not too much scripting here. Although I had to pretend to do a set of 100m reps coming in on 1.10 and leaving on 1.20. Bobby actually  made me swim a 100 in 1.10! (and leave on 1.20) It was 2 days after racing Sea Otter (still brokin), I hadnt swum in almost a week, no warm up, and as you can see- long course…

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Gary getting the shot- whatever it takes…

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Like I said – whatever it takes!

Then cycling…

After an interview about training and swimming (to use a voice over video) Aaron, Bobby and myself had lunch and set off to Henry Bear park. A beautiful place in the hills near the Specialized head quarters in Morgan Hill, CA.

Aaron had this huge equipment bag – at least 40lbs – and was trying to climb these really steep hills on an Enduro bike. (ie not a climbing bike!) I remembered seeing a really pretty place on top of the hills and made them ride up there instead of shooting at the bottom of the hills- which is less scenic. Aaron was wearing a full face helmet with a camera mounted – so he was really suffering. So I helped and rode the bag to the top:

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Specialized 29er Epic.

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Cali has some crazy steep hills.

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Almost there guys…

It was well worth the climb:

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Later Aaron shot quite a bit of video with his helmet cam- he would ride behind me and film flowing single track through lush green pastures…

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Of course we still had to do the run pictures. The light was getting really good, but it was a race against sunset. We still had to shoot 3 locations running and an interview. You’ll notice in the last interview on the video where the light is fading fast. And I look hungry, tired and broken from a full days’ acting. Acting is not glamorous, its definitely hard work and real actors are really gifted. I just rode my bike, swam and ran, (many takes) and mumbled a few lines. No use scripting those- when I repeated scripted lines it sounded like and old gramophone that got stuck.

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Getting the run shots done. Bobby directing and talking “shite” with Aaron working his magic.

Thanks for making me look good!

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