Perry Healey is not your typical cyclist. He is a a touring cyclist. Onward and forward, Perry challenges himself by going the extra mile, literally, when he's on his bike. He talks about his recent trip, which he covered almost 600 miles in 8 weeks from San Francisco to Los Angeles. Talk about cardio, right? Well, this allowed him to expand more on his passion for biking and actually plans on biking to South America in the future, he said. Overall, Perry definitely tells us that the journey is much more memorable than the destination.
Watch the video and read along the transcripts below as he shares his passion for cycling.
Perry Healey | Going the Extra Mile... Literally! from Miguel Arucan on Vimeo.
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Watch the video and read along the transcripts below as he shares his passion for cycling.
Perry Healey | Going the Extra Mile... Literally! from Miguel Arucan on Vimeo.
INTRODUCTION SCENE:
-Long shot of Perry
walking with bike-
-Nat sound: quiet
traffic
SIT-DOWN INTERVIEW My
name is Perry Healey and I am an elementary education student at the University
of Nevada.
-long shot of Perry
walking to house-
One of my passions when it comes to biking is going long
distances. I like to travel, what they call touring on my bike.
-nat sound: bike
ticking
-long shot of Perry
riding
I’ve been biking for about 5 years now. Ever since then,
I’ve been biking.
-Medium shot of Perry
walking with bike-
Biking everyday. Biking to school, biking to work,
everywhere I need to go.
A lot of people I think look at biking as just a mode of
transportation, just to get from point A to point B. But it’s really more than
that. It becomes more of a community, almost. You’ll be biking down the street,
especially when I’m going long distances, on popular bike routes, like I’m
going to Verdi or Carson City or something, you see multiple bikers everyday,
they always wave at you. You always get a wave, you always get a “hi” people
are always interested of what kind of bike you have and what kind of style it
is, and things like that.
-close up shot/extreme
close up shot of bike
What I would say what differentiates is that tourers like to
go really long distances. They still go from point a to point B, but point A is
quite a bit further to point B.
-cut in shot-
-medium shot of Perry
parking his bike with nat sounds.-
ON THE GO INTERVIEW: Biking
is something I stumbled upon. We had this idea to go to San Francisco, right?
And we decided, “Hey why don’t we just bike?” At first, it seemed like a crazy
idea, but then when you realize you can
do it, and you realize that it’s possible, I think it’s something you have to
do eventually. So ever since then, I just wanted to go further, wanted to
go more places, I want to see how far I can push it.
-show slideshow of
trip pictures with camera shot sounds-
RETURN TO SIT-DOWN The
biggest trip I’ve done was my San Francisco to LA trip. Whenever you go on a
bike trip, it’s really hard. The first couple of days, you’re really excited to
where you’re going, you’re seeing all these beautiful sceneries and it’s
amazing. But on day 3, you always want to give up, it’s the worst day, your
legs are just dead tired, you’re tired of sitting on the stupid bike seat, it’s
exhausting! But when you push through that, once you get past day 3, it’s
better… it’s good. You’re getting this rhythm where you just coast.
-show slideshow of
trip pictures with camera shot sounds-
-close up shot/reverse
shot of Perry working on his bike. Ticking sound
TEXT: It took Perry 8 days and 600 miles to finish his San
Francisco to Los Angeles Trip
ON THE GO INTERVIEW: I
like biking because it just makes sense to me. I can get anywhere I want to go
without spending a bunch of money, I don’t
have to pay for gas, I don’t have to pay for car insurance. It just
makes economic sense. And I try to consider the environment a lot in everything
I do, and biking has such a small impact on the environment compared to cars,
and busses and all of that. Biking has done so much for me, and that gives me a
way to give back to the environment and it’s just something I love to do.
-close up of Perry
riding bicycle. Handlebar scene-
When you bike, I feel you get a… it’s more accomplished…you
feel like you have more of an accomplishment.
-wide shot of Perry
riding away. Pan up with text scene.
You’ve achieved something greater because you worked really hard.
The best thing about biking, and what differentiates it between a car or a
motorcycle, is that you really get to appreciate where you’re going.
Miguel Arucan is a senior at the University of Nevada, Reno, studying journalism. He plans on focusing on broadcasting while still incorporating his creative side by minoring in art history.