While I was in Regina shooting a horse show for some clients I made irregular audio journal entries using my iriver mp3 player. Rather than transcribe the whole mess I thought I’d just post the files along with a bit of context and additional descriptions when necessary…
My friend and fellow videographer Alex brought me in on this project last summer. He’d taken a job shooting horses (with a camera, not a gun) at Spruce Meadows for an equestrian video company. I’d passed on the job earlier due to other commitments, but I had some spare time to do a few days and came on board. The work consisted of filming horses as they traversed the jumping course and logging the horse number and competition against the time code on the tape. Nothing too punishing. We were paid a flat $150 per day, some days working as little as five hours.
Life was good. When she asked us to come out to Regina to shoot a week long show for $175 per day plus room and board we said yes. When I told fellow videographers Josh R. and Josh W. both of them warned me not to work for the company. Josh W. told me the only way they’d made it though the year before was by getting hammered every night.
Of course I ignored their warnings. I needed money for my upcoming trip to Burning Man where I’d be shooting a documentary with a friend of mine who works for the CBC. Plus things had gone smoothly at Spruce Meadows, the days might be a bit longer in Regina, but really how bad could it be? I figured R. and W. were just whiners…
