My video “Seeing the World Through the Rearview Window” is set up to be comparable to a movie preview. I wanted the feel as though this was a movie being made and setting up for release. To gather all the film I required took days to accomplish. Because all the film was shot by my self, it required me to get onto more flights than I normally fly on.
I used a GoPro for the pilot takeoff and an iPhone for the rest of it. I was able to get help from plenty of people in my squadron when it came time to filming them. Getting the different angles is a little difficult, especially in landscape view. There are not a lot of open spaces to put a camera that does not impede the view on the aircraft. At the end of the video, I realized I wish I had more fighter videos. Again, this is where having hundreds of these types of video but not in landscape.
For the music I wanted something that was a building intensity. Start off slow and gradually build. I feel it is a very common method in most action movie previews. The music is by David Fesliyan called “Blood Pumping”. I had to edit the music slightly through Audition and added my own piece to it from one of our strike videos. This was the JTAC requesting help from an A-10 pilot. I felt this really brought it home what the impact the Boom Operator has on the fight.
The overall editing of the video was fairly easy through Premier. Getting a hang of some of the transition work was a little difficult but I felt that it turned out well enough. Overall my goal was to give a slight glimpse of what the Boom Operator sees when he is working and what we contribute to the efforts.
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