The video was
made using a Samsung DV camcorder and a random wireless
camera which I purchsed off of E-Bay and use primarily
with my model planes. We attached the camera pointing
backwards on a flatbed car and pulled that car with a
locomotive, which ran infront of the train we were
filming. If I remember correctly, Fred was in control of
the main train, and I was controlling the camera train.
The wireless receiver
was plugged into my Samsung camcorder to record all of
the "wireless" shots. Due to the small apature of the
wireless camera and lack of sunlight in Fred's basement
the shots are a little dark, you'll see it lighten up
when I switch to using the Samsung camcorder to do
filming at the end. Once the video was on the camcorder
(about 2 hours of raw footage!!!) I imported it into
Adobe Premier ver 6.5 on Windows 2000 via FireWire. (Wish
it ran on Linux, or Mac ran on IBM..... but I
digress).
Once on the computer
that 2 hours of video footage was cut down to the 6
minute video you see. I did some tweaks with light (to
try to lighten the dark wireless camera up), and made it
black and white to give it an authentic "old"
look.
When you are watching
the last part of the video with the long coal train,
every time you hear a bell or whistle, that's really
coming from the train and was not dubbed in by me. People
are always very suprised when I tell them
this!
