See the video at the bottom of the page
I was invited to join the Malcolm, NE fire and rescue crew by my friend Jared Ritze to film some fire training during a controlled burn of a house. This was a video that took a very long time to finish, just over one year in fact. It took so long because it was just so much material and I was doing it for more than just myself. I was doing it for the Fire and Rescue Crew as well.
It was only the 4th video I'd recorded since starting Flarecorp Media and I had never done anything so big before. I didn't want to put out a sub-par video so I waited until I had developed my skills enough to be able to handle it.
I started out the day planning to just do a time lapse, take some pictures a bit of video as well, but I started to record more and more until I had over an hour and a half of footage between 5 cameras. It was also the first time I'd used my Nikon A900 (which died in the lake last month. See it here)
I decided to come out of my shell and ask some of the firemen if I could record them while they talked about equipment or what they were doing. All of them were more than willing to explain it to me, but didn't want to be on camera except for the brave Mark Stevens who gave me a tour of their Medium Duty Rescue vehicle. Big thanks Mark!
In the end, I had gotten much more footage than I'd hoped and my biggest problem editing was trying to decide what I wanted to cut out because all of it was good to me, but I set a goal of under 30 minutes and once I turned a lot of the slow motion into a montage, the way forward became pretty easy.
Below is a GoPro time lapse from start to finish. I had to move the camera midway through the burn (as you’ll hear in the main video) because it got directly in the line of heat due to a wind shift.
Thank you to the Malcolm, NE Fire and Rescue Crew https://malcolmfirerescue.org/ for inviting me out and to the Garland, NE Fire and Rescue Crew for showing me around. Also thank you to the property owners for letting me record.
