{"id":798,"date":"2009-05-10T17:32:01","date_gmt":"2009-05-10T15:32:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conradstoltz.com\/the-making-of-a-video-for-wwwi-am-specializedcom\/"},"modified":"2009-05-10T17:32:01","modified_gmt":"2009-05-10T15:32:01","slug":"the-making-of-a-video-for-wwwi-am-specializedcom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conradstoltz.com\/index.php\/the-making-of-a-video-for-wwwi-am-specializedcom\/","title":{"rendered":"The making of a video. For www.i-am-specialized.com"},"content":{"rendered":"

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This video was made for the “triathlon” part of the i-am-specialized website<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The a href=”http:\/\/www.i-am-specialized.com\/triathlon” target=”_blank”>i-am-specialized website<\/a> 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.<\/p>\n

I am honoured to be the 1st triathlete to have a video on the site.<\/font><\/p>\n

Terrenzo<\/a> and Macca<\/a> will have videos soon…<\/p>\n

The shoot started with swimming.<\/h2>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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!<\/p>\n

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….<\/p>\n

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Posing to da max.\u00a0 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
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Gary Perkin<\/a> took some still pics for “a day in the life of….”<\/p>\n

Finally we started swimming…<\/font><\/p>\n

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\u00a0 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…<\/p>\n

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Gary getting the shot- whatever it takes…<\/p>\n

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Like I said – whatever it takes!<\/p>\n

Then cycling…<\/h2>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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:<\/p>\n

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Specialized 29er Epic.<\/font><\/p>\n

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Cali has some crazy steep hills.<\/p>\n

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Almost there guys…<\/p>\n

It was well worth the climb:<\/p>\n

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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…<\/p>\n

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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.<\/p>\n

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Getting the run shots done. Bobby directing and talking “shite” with Aaron working his magic.<\/p>\n

Thanks for making me look good!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13,24,27,34,55,59,73,78,99,102,134,137],"tags":[172,1747,1749,1754,510,543,576,1770,776,866,1806,1833],"yoast_head":"\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n