Meg Garven

Hi there, this is my last post for this semester and it is a video project. The concept was to produce a video to sell a building.

Firstly I created a script and a series of storyboards (not shown on this blog). I wanted to have a narrator a la the BBC programme "Top Gear" with Jeremy Clarkson. Another student Chris volunteered for this part. I then shot the footage with my now rather old Sony digital video camera, using a tripod. I did some tentative location shots previously with a hand held compact camera, but camera shake was too obvious.

I then edited the video in Camtasia, which isn't great. It is very hard to be accurate on your cuts as you cannot split the footage frame by frame. I recorded the intro and conclusion on Audacity and overlaid a cheezy soundtrack; the project is meant to be a kind of pastiche.

Uploading the video onto a server caused the most problems. Firstly as a avi file, my project was too big for my allowance on Viddler. I tried saving the project as a wmv file, but the soundtrack was of a terrible quality. Eventually I saved the project as a flv file which was considerably smaller and didn't lose too much quality. I tried several times unsuccessfully to upload this to Mediamax, and have just now successfully uploaded it to Viddler. I then copied the code to embed into my blog, so fingers crossed it will work!!