Today I’m going to do my weekly vlog. I usually do this on a Friday, but this week I’m working a day ahead. I’m vlogging about the artist, Martha Orbach, who is putting together an animated film about Parkinson’s Disease and Deep Brain Stimulation. She has now received funding for the majority of the project from The Arts Council, and has to raise the balance herself. I think she will be doing a valuable job for Parkinson’s awareness, and wanted to help her in any way I could.
I have received various emails from Martha this week – approval of the script that I sent to her, a photo of her for me to use in the video, and scans of some of her artwork (to save me from having to scan them in) so I put all of the images on my MacBook, ready to use when I’m editing my vlog.
I think my voice has been affected by the increased voltage on my left hand side (I turned my neurostimulator up 2 notches last week to try to calm the tremor in my left leg) – it’s been much worse (I think) the last couple of days. I try putting my device on Group “B” settings (which I use at night, because the level of stimulation is much lower) to see if that would make a difference, but I still had terrible trouble when I was filming myself – I think voice changes don’t happen immediately the settings are changed!
I load the footage onto my MacBook, and have most of the editing done by the time my wife arrives home from work – I’ll finish it off in the morning.