Well this is unexpected, today I was gonna talk about a wheelchair topic related to the film but I decided to continue on a post that I wrote last Wednesday titled "It's All Mathematics." In my post last week I talked about a presentation that I was doing in my math class regarding my wheelchair and this week I finished doing my research and writhing notes for my presentation and came up with some interesting results.
Now before I tell you my results of my research, let me explain how I did my research. I decided to focus my presentation on the number of miles that I travel on a daily basis and the number of hours it takes to charge my wheelchair. I did this process for a one week starting on Friday February 17th, detailing the total miles I traveled that day, the total time of my entire trip, the hours it took for my chair to fully charge and finally the total number of hours I actually charged my chair.
I was really fascinated by the results of my week long research. In one week I traveled a total of 17.2 miles, that's how many miles it approximately takes to get from Chicago to Chicago Ridge, IL. The total time I traveled was 227 minutes which comes out to 3 hours and 47mins. The number of hours it took for my wheelchair to fully charge was 24 hours and the total of hours I actually charged my chair was 86 hours.These numbers shocked me because I never realized I do this much travelling in one week in the Winter. Just image what I do in one week when it's Spring or Summer, it's gotta be double or triple the miles.
While working on this film I never considered looking at this stuff and I'm trying to figure out why because this type of research that I'm doing for my presentation matters in my daily life, this is what I do in order to make it through the day without my wheelchair losing power and me being stranded someone in the city. This is something that I have to look at when I'm shooting my film in different locations throughout Chicago and that is the travelling aspect because it's not just important to the film but to me as well. I really have to think about that and hopefully I'll get an answer through this film journey.
On Friday I'll talk about my film adventures and the fun I'm having shooting this film.
Take Care,
Justin
