Friday, March 25, 2005

Good Friday

It is Good Friday and we spend the day heading further across the Atlas. Paul has a spark plug problem and for a while we are held up on the road to Sidi Farr. It is frustrating, as I film the event to illustrate the dependency that we have upon these vehicles, and the mechanical knowledge necessary to fix it. Yet I can't get it into the edit of the feature. The sequence was just a bit too technical, and I struggle to give it simplicity. I opt, in the edit, for the later sequence in which Martin gets stuck in the sand, as I felt that it is immediately a visual representation of the problem, and the subsequent solution.