Comments on: [Video] “A Feather in his Cap”

By: Gillian

Gillian — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 01:32:06 +0000

Lovely! And this so much reminds me of so many quiet, hilltop, sunny walks in different corners of Trinidad and Tobago! And how wonderful it is to have these walks and how many people miss out on them because of their feelings about safety in our twin-island republic.
Long live the hillside stroll! and any documentation of them.
GG

By: pepa garcía

pepa garcía — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 20:34:33 +0000

love it. i´ll try to make something similar.

By: Rupert

Rupert — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 23:45:38 +0000

Hah! Jay: relax, baby!
Nathan said on the Semanal site that he was imagining relationships between the people in the film… I was, too. You lured us into a story that wasn’t a story. Great stuff.
As I said at Ning:
I *love* the mood you developed from snapshot odds and ends with the great choice of music and inspired editing/postproduction!
Very pretty – very engaging.
Would love to have a go at doing this with some unintended archive footage.
What’s the music?

By: Georgia

Georgia — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 23:33:47 +0000

Nicholas, when you get cast as a loner in a big Hollywood (or Bollywood) production, you’ll have me to thank.

And thanks for the kind comments, Jay. I know what you mean by “real life”, but given that the footage in the video was not in fact shot with a fictional narrative in mind, I’d like to put in a bid for walks on Mount St Benedict to be included on the roster of “real life” in Trinidad. It is something that people down here do fairly often, though probably not nearly as often as they should.

By: jay dedman

jay dedman — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 22:43:20 +0000

wow. that camera looks really good. And good experiment with a narrative. Now let’s start seeing real life there!

By: Nicholas Laughlin

Nicholas Laughlin — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 20:24:37 +0000

Funny, I don’t recall signing a waiver.

At least I (rightfully) got top billing.