Hey Everyone, this is Nicole from Filmaka. Here is another tale of adventure from Varda’s feature documentary. Hope you guys are enjoying it as much as we are!
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Good crop this year.
So, where were we…. Oh yes, my heavy hitting producing friend Scott told me that there was no way to successful shoot a bike tour without the use of motorcycles and the sponsor’s of the bike tour insisted that we were not allowed to shoot off of motorized vehicles anywhere along the ride. This was a “rub” that haunted us throughout the shoot and we found numerous strategies to get our much needed running shots. But, I’m getting ahead of myself.
I discovered from multiple conversations with Ragbrai participants, sponsors, hosts and people whose friends and/or family members participated in Ragbrai is that it’s “impossible to describe, you must experience it”. Yet, Ragbrai is real, tangible and compelling enough that it has grown to close to 20,000 participants (10,000 of whom are “un-official) and that more than a hand full of the riders come back year after year… making the treck twice, three times, ten times, even thirty-seven times! So I knew that there was something worthwhile and meaningful happening on the roads of Iowa every summer.
But what was that “thing”? And how could I capture it without knowing the answer to that question?
