Blackjack
I decided that this week I was going to do a video of my world. I sort of have, but with a few missing continents. If I actually filmed what I did this week mahoosive chunks of it would have involved; me staring at a tiny computer and trying to think, being distracted from thinking by listening to Radio Four podcasts, eating, sleeping, accumulating enough bits of newspaper to run my own newsagents*, eating Brie, swearing at my phone, and cat annoyance.Clearly that would be ridiculously lengthy, and very weird. So instead, you get partial weirdness. A view of my world this week, missing the working/eating/sleeping/pretending to work bits. Consequently it’s a lot shorter. It is a bit odd though, but I rather like it. I suppose I would though. I’ve had to audio-swap the soundtrack because I’m not keen on getting sued for copyright infringement*. Those concerned that they might be missing something better audiowise should be reassured that in the bits where there was music in the background it was my (dire) taste which can be found in my lastfm widget to the side. I suspect my taste in RnB, trampy Pop, euro-trash House and 80s camp may have made some ears bleed. At one point you’re also missing hearing me sound as though I was having an asthma attack (I wasn’t), unless asphyxiant smut is your kind of thing, you really aren’t missing much. To be frank even if it is your kind of thing I imagine my performance would not rank highly. So you get Haydn instead. Weirdly it sort of fits well.
And just to prove I really do, do all my walking in a skirt:
Me
The picture doesn’t reflect very well the full muddiness (the joy of brown and black clothes),or the ripped hoisery (vicious trees).
Anyway I digress, my bit of the world this week
*And heck if the worst comes to the worst I could actually do this. Although whether I would want, ever in my life, to deal with news wholesalers again is another matter.
*If I’m going to ever get sued or go to gaol I’d like it to be for something really worth it.
Tags: mud, photos, This Dame Elsewhere, Video, walk, wittering, youtube
I have often pondered on the possibility of doing a video blog, and am still pondering. The sad fact is that I don’t have anything remotely exciting in my life to film.
Perhaps I shall invite ideas for filmage on one’s blog.
What do you use to edit it?
Editing is one of the biggest pains. (lots of sweary words are used)
I use Premiere Pro in theory. However, it uses massive amounts of memory for every processing action so I have to rough cut in movie maker and then properly edit in Premiere Pro. Windows Movie Maker isn’t as good for close editing as I would like (tis a complete arse for finding individual frame points). There’s some OS ones about but they seem pretty limited, to me, on fine editing. The best one of the OS ones apparently is a German one, unfortunately it came with zero instructions so I can’t tell if it’s any good because it just annoyed me.
Depending on what you’re filming with you might find format to be an issue most phones and stills cameras seem to film in MPEG, which is mostly (but not entirely) uneditable.
Oooh, trees.