My
objections to 'starring!' in a video of my trip to meet my
bird-watching friend are two-fold
(i)
I don't want to be accompanied by a 'camera crew' or by anyone at
all since my main pleasyre is doing the trip as best as I can without
any help except that I always seem to get from the occasional
passer-by and from the bus driver. They all think I'm blind and
that's
the impression I like
to give.
(ii)
I certainly do not want to be securely blind as Accro
Delajupe
suggests by self adhesive patches or his even more frightening
suggestion. My confident approach to outdoor blindsimming is because
if anything awful happened – a mugging (unlikely the way I dress
and the route and time of day that I travel) or being knocked down by
a quietly approaching cyclist or worse -then I can just whip off my
darkened glasses and be fully sighted to deal with it. I've never had
to take that extreme step yet, I'm very happy to report.
BUT....
you both, and perhaps others (if there are more readers out there!),
would go along with Chris's (my
understanding
brother, you may recollect) suggestion that he videos my Friday
morning session on a day when my more-recently met friend, Lucy,
comes round to my house for her blindfolded piano playing lesson –
see our website (page 10).
My immediate objection was that she would never agree to
it.
She thinks I'm bonkers to even think of going outdoor at all
blindfolded. Chris was quick to point out that she, being
blindfolded, would have no idea that she was being videoed and his
video camera is very silent anyway!
His
suggested scenario ( ? ) is that he would first video me blindfolding
myself and, to entertain the rest of you out there, I would put on
self adhesive
patches, which I have only
used
twice (overnight) when we were away for a bird watching week-end.
Then – I would secure them in place with a
second set of patches, just for the effect (he would think that!) -
then tie on my usual scarf blindfold. When Lucy arrived, he would
position himself on the staircase landing upstairs, out of Lucy's
range of vision and video me blindfolding her as I usually do as soon
as she is inside. The he would creep around behind us as we went
through our routine. He liked the idea of me handing over a stick for
her to find her way whilst I was able to get around happily, purely
on my experience of my own home. Piano
playing, Lucy is quite good now and lunch would all be faithfully
recorded.
Well,
he can live in hope, I suppose!
Something different next week, if I can think of something!
Suggestions very welcome
Jane
