Hello everyone, I am back online and ready for the summer preperations for the coming skating season. Sorry I deleted my website and all my blogs this past year. There were a few technical difficulties and I never got the time to figure out and fix the problems.

Never mind, I am back on my site and keeping it up and running with my latest skating news, cinematography studies, and general world speed skating news.

I leave for 2 weeks of speed skate training in the Netherlands at the end of this week. My team and I will finally get some ice under our feet. I haven't been on ice since March and I am super excited about starting workouts on ice as soon as possible.

Since March I have been cycling and running long distance. Some off-ice workouts and strength workouts. My studies have taken a large amount of time, and from knowing literally nothing about movies when I started, it's practically scary looking at all the movie productions we have made this year. There has been a new movie made every second week under many different categories of visual media. The good thing with school is that you can really mess up a production and not worry about it, because you get points for effort. Messing up a project would mean thinking you know exactly how the movie will look when you are finished, but then something along the way (that you didn't pay attention to, or by powers out of your hands, elements just didn't fall into place) contributes to messing up the making of the movie and you run around like a headless chicken trying to find the best solution possible. After a year of studies I would say the no. 1 thing I have learned is to work best as possible around unforeseen situations and how to make the very best out of every situation in a professional manner.

Quote learned by heart:
"Whatever can go wrong will go wrong,  in the worst possible way, at the worst possible moment" ~Murphy's Law

Here are some photos from our biggest production this year:
(All photos by Hilde Finnseth, hildebilde.com)

Makeup and attatchment of microphone.

Monitors on filmset

Numerous production meetings

Equipment testing

Even more equipment testing

Coordenation actors, mentors and technical crew before live take.

Even more technical adjustments.

How most of us felt working through the night before shooting.
...and then....
Time to film the action: