I am going to finish the script for my video review of Charlotte’s Web Everyday Plus CBD oil this morning, and get it filmed this afternoon – so I sit down on the sofa with my iPad, when I return from taking the dog for her morning jaunt, and rattle off a few paragraphs.
I transform the kitchen/dining area into a studio and set up the camera, tripod and radio microphone, load my script into the teleprompter app on my iPad and rehearse it a couple of times to check my timing. All seems to be okay, so I try a few takes and then play it back to check it. I must have positioned the lapel microphone badly because there is lots of sibilance on the audio and it is basically unusable. I reposition the microphone and try again. I thought I would have problems filming today, because of the weakness of my voice over the last couple of weeks, but it doesn’t give me too many problems and I manage to capture some reasonable footage with only 4 or 5 takes.
I took a dose of the oil as part of the filming of the review, and it does help to calm my left leg tremor as well as threatening to send me to sleep (again).
I clear away the camera equipment and sundries and decide to leave the editing of my review for another day – I’m feeling really tired and unmotivated at the moment. I also need to have a think about the subject for my weekly vlog, and (perhaps) start to script it. I want to do something for Parkinson’s Awareness Week, but it’s going to be a struggle to be honest whilst keeping positive at the same time. Perhaps I can try to find the positive side to my illness – there has to be one, right?