The film Skywriter 2 was cancelled, but the "Life of the Storm2" may come out!
After the release of Skywriter 1, or "Sky Nature" in March 2023, (https://drive.google.com/file/d/1FhxIKYBjn5kvNryU1H3Uo7w2K7SIzpwX/view,) Team Manatee decided to make a sequel for that. Sky Nature was based on the Jackson 5's song Skywriter, which was also the title track of their most unsuccessful album. The film used some clips of the Fleet Week I took in 2017. "the clips did very well with the song," said Rob in March. "I don't think you can film about anything else but airplane smoke with the song 'Skywriter.'"
"I especially loved the forest clips with Human Nature," said Rob in March. "It goes so well together."
Rob then experienced his sixth fleet week yesterday on Sunday. The first three days of the show were sunny, clear and hot, but Rob's family had other plans. By Sunday, the fog floated back. Rob went and saw nothing. "the schedule said 'F-35' but all I saw was a small black speck diving into the clouds at 800 MPH," said Rob. Rob was really mad, because the same thing happened the previous year. He also says he saw more of the Blues on Thursday and Friday, when he was at school, then on the weekend. "on Wednesday I lost my school iPad, so I couldn't record at school on those two days!"
On Sunday, 20 clips were taken of the jets, but none were up close.
But today's rain may bring hope. At the CCAG, rain didn't fall at all, but amazing clouds were captured at Rob's window. Looking back, the first Team Manatee film was called "The Life of a Storm" (https://sites.google.com/view/team-manatee-films) Rob tells us that the audio was bad, and he didn't do a good job balancing the music and the audio. "Sometimes the voice over narration would be to quiet. Sometimes it would sound weird because it was too loud." This film was recorded using a iPad mini 2, one out of 4 active devices recording time-lapses at the CCAG. The iPad was released ten years ago and timelapses appear blurry, especially when downloaded from iMovie.
He also told us that it was too repetitive and long.
So Rob decided to make a sequel to this film, the "Life of a Storm 2," instead of "Skywriter 2." He predicts it will be much better than previous films. Look out for it in the next week at the Team Manatee film website!
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