Jordan Manley
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Treeline
In Progress (ft. doc)
Out On A Limb
A Skier’s Journey
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March 2025
Merlin & Red Tail
A feature film is a soaring undertaking. The months drift by and congeal into a blob of editing.
In January, I watched from the chair as a red tailed hawk hunted for days from the top branch
of the fir tree across the street. When the cold came she moved on. Merlin, her smaller cousin,
visited yesterday.
They come and go, like new ideas that drift into your mind — lucky if you happen to see them,
take note and grab ahold of them while they fly by. Gifts from the horizon, gifts from collaborators.
More ideas to test, new scenes to cut, minutes added to an expanding timeline.
July 2024
Foley folly
Typically “foley” (the re-creation of sounds for film) is done at the very end of the film process.
During the editing phase, though, I often want to use sound to initiate or ease a cut, or to bridge two separate moments into one.
That requires having the right sound in place to test if that cut will work or not. If the appropriate sound wasn’t captured in the field,
and I can’t find it in my sound effect library, then I do my best to make it myself, orthodoxy be damned!
Above, the shuffling of flip flops. Below, trying to recreate the sound of glasses being folded
and unfolded in the hands, as seen on screen.
June 2024
24°00'44"N 157°29'15"W
Continued work on “Hōkūle’a”, a feature length documentary that I have been making for the last 3.5 years.
A Red-footed Booby waking up at sunrise, having slept on board all night.
Spring 2024
Editing
Feb 2024
Visitors
A family of 4 cougars (mom and 3 young) have been in the neighbourhood lately. Captured by my trail cam.
Jan 2024
Quiet on 16th
Jan 2024
Arctic air
Dec 17 2023
Ambleside
The pine and the pitch & putt fence, West Vancouver.
Dec 15 2023
Birch Bay
Dec 5 2023
Editing, editing
Nov 2023
Spitz A3P
Craig McCaw, BCIT / Roundhouse Productions
Oct 2023
Goat mtn.
Sept 2023
Van isle.
May 2023
Port Hardy
June 2023
Wrangell
May 19 2023
Yakutat
March 28 2023
UW
Feb 25 2023
Honolulu
Nov 2022
Interview marathons
May 27 2022
Max & Aku
May 27 2022
Merville