This Is How YouTube’s Most Popular U.S. Navy Cruise Videos Are Made:
DirJ, known far and wide in the Growler world, filled us in on how today’s naval aviators make a cruise video.“When I was in VAQ-130, my operational fleet squadron, they found out that I’d gone to school for media production,” DirJ says. “They just kind of threw me into it!”... [+]He admits he also “kind of volunteered.
Gathering and editing footage takes months of work he says. For Growler Ball videos the process begins with a mass email blast to every EA-18G aircrew at Naval Air Station Whidbey Island and to the sole forward-based squadron at Marine Corps Air Station Iwakuni, Japan. Often, he gets feedback right away with hours of footage delivered to his “giant Google drive set up.”
Weeding out music until he has two or three songs he really wants to use, DirJ tries to envision what clips might pair well with a particular song and conjures an opening for the video. “If I have two jets coming to a merge, dogfighting, that’s a really cool shot. And clips that show the different skills we have like airborne tanking or trapping. There’s some HARM-shooting footage. The cool part is the missiles coming off the rails. I include two or three shots per video.”The practice of playfully poking fun at squadron mates is a time honored tradition in naval aviation and the mischievous exploits of the aircrews are frequent fodder for cruise videos.
Such moments are examples of people being themselves DirJ notes, adding that amid the stress of doing a dangerous job for months on end, moments of levity help “humanize us.”with another flight crew and Growler legacy flight vintage aircraft pilot in Melbourne Australia.“If there’s one thing that any of us are better at than all the tactics and flying, it’s making fun of ourselves and each other. If you don’t have a sense of humor about the whole thing, you’re in the wrong line of work.
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