25 February (Part 5) - Riku Fryderyk. Queen of buses
As if you haven’t had enough of me on Bonkers today here is
yesterdayְ’s bus ride
with the junior YouTubers on board. (Best to click it for Full Screen.) The young lady who has edited her video in record
time is really very good at it. I think I mentioned before that I once made a film
that got a one-off screening at the BFI theatre on the South Bank
for being runner-up in a national competition but that was way back
when we had to cut film apart and glue it back together in a new order and even a fade to black
was near impossible to achieve. Sound? Forget it. By comparison with Riku’s effort mine was total c**p!
She is an extremely talented young lady and her expertise with the editing and getting exactly the right shot puts nearly all the
other YouTubers I follow to shame.
If you are looking for me, then I am seen briefly about three times, downstairs, two seats back from the middle door. I come and go because I got off in
Bexleyheath and as locals will recognise the editing of the shots is anything but chronological.
And then there is
the maggot sandwich
in which I contribute about a quarter of Hugh Neal’s weekly
blog. Contrary to what you might read there I did not work on Phone Book
production until I retired but only until 1972. There was an acrimonious falling
out with a senior manager who said I could only visit the Forest Gate Directory
Enquiry unit, which was very much my baby, if the Union agreed to it. I said I
would go anytime the local manager said I could. And so I found my newly
acquired computer skills put to good use in Telegrams. It wasn’t all bad, I got a promotion out of it.