I slept reasonably well last night, so it’s a bit of a mystery why I’m feeling so exhausted when I get out of bed this morning. It’s just as well I’m not planning on doing anything physical today. I plan on writing the script for my weekly vlog about Martha Orbach, the London artist who watched my Deep Brain Stimulation operation last April, and who is putting together a short animated film about a man with advanced Parkinson’s Disease who has DBS. She has now received some funding from The Arts Council for the project, but still has to raise about £1,000 to cover costs, so I decided to publicise her crowdfunding page to help her to raise the balance – Parkinson’s awareness is such a worthy cause. Writing the script takes me much longer than I anticipated, much like most things that I do these days – either I’m getting slower at doing things, or I’m a lousy estimator…
After I emailed a copy of the script to Martha (for approval), I sit down at my MacBook to edit the RSHO review video. Immediately I have problems – I’m not happy with most of the video that I shot for the first half of the review. For a start, in one of the shots I’m wearing a different shirt to the rest of the video – not sure how I managed that one! And then there are loads of shots where I have inadvertently got the clothes airer in the frame. I need to have a few re-takes! So, I set up the camera and tripod once more, making sure that I wear the right shirt and frame the shots correctly this time, and film the duff footage again. My voice isn’t as bad as it was yesterday, and I don’t have too much trouble getting the shots that I need. I load the video onto my MacBook, and now i’m ready to edit it. It’s time for me to tidy up a little and turn the kitchen/dining room back into a kitchen/dining room instead of it being a film studio, so the editing is now a job for tomorrow – I think a pattern is emerging here.
I definitely feel an early night coming on.