You feel that there is a potential impact for this show?
Leif Bodnarchuk:
I feel it is a bit like when you have heard of a musician or a band, but you’ve never heard the music. One day you meet the people who are involved in making the music. Imagine when you meet them, they talk about song writing, how they go about producing the music they make. That makes you want to hear the music and that is what we are doing. Allowing people to meet these bike builders and guitar makers.
I think there is also the element of how people express themselves. Some people say things, or they play music, or they write, or they use their hands to make things. So we are looking at one of the many different to ways to express your thoughts and ideas.
There is also something about making music. People say that they want to change the world, and to me, a guitar, is a useful tool, to allow you to get across a message which might be part of making changes to the world.
Paul Kane:
If you go back to Woody Guthrie and his guitar. He had written on his guitar, “This machine kills Fascists”. Love Music Hate Racism was a project which aimed to make a difference. I think when people come together through music they can be part of changing things.
You also have very beautiful scenery in your videos and there is quite a bit of careful editing? How does that come about?
Leif Bodnarchuk:
We both do the filming and I do the editing. A lot of what we say is unscripted, partly because I can’t remember what I am supposed to say half the time.
Paul Kane:
We are quite a self-contained unit in that we both do the filming, and a lot of the unscripted material stays in because it can be better than material we have written. We do labour over the introductions, and another part of the production which is important to mention, the music is ours. Almost all of the music in the show, was written by us. We created it.
Leif Bodnarchuk:
I do work hard on the editing. I always have in my head, don’t give the eye a reason to wander. We shoot mainly on phones, and Go-Pros, and we try to avoid repetitiveness.
Paul Kane:
We want to avoid the situation where half the show is just a recap or a repeat from a previous show. You see that in most reality based tv shows. We wanted to shy away from that style and make each episode a stand-alone show.
Leif Bodnarchuk:
Of course, where we have to reference things which have happened in other episodes we will do that, but each show is the trip, the scenery, the destination and a discussion.
