June 15, 2008

I wanted to make the most of the fact that Jon Puddle was back in town, so I came up with a plot that would involve the whole IT team. I like the storyline, and particularly the impression given that Jon has come simply to sort out Jon Long's problem with his Mac. I had a great sequence with Pudd getting out of bed, and then a map with dots showing his progress across the Atlantic in the style of Indiana Jones, but the video was too long, and that scene ended up getting cut.

The video also features a guest appearance from Ken Lyons. Ken used to work in IT at TACF a long time ago, and was back in town at the same time. I decided to just put him in there, and see who noticed. A nice addition, I think.

After some problems with lighting in previous weeks, mainly at the TACF Airport campus, I decided to brighten this video post filming, but it didn't really work. I haven't used that function in Final Cut since.

April 27, 2008

After I made the Pray Hard video, I realised that if I wasn't careful, I'd end up constantly having to make more and more complicated videos to better myself. I made the decision to intersperse very ambitious concepts with more simple ones, like this.
I took my inspiration from the constant stream of people holding meetings with Lillian, but obviously exaggerated it a little. I wanted to give people a little glimpse of 'office life'.

This is, I think, the last time that I put another video into the announcements. From time to time we get sent videos from people promoting their events in the city. After this one, I made the decision not to do it any more, for a couple of reasons: firstly, the announcements should be TACF specific, and most of these videos don't fit into that catagory, and secondly, it's a very time consuming process. I would have to rip the dvd to my computer, and then import that clip into Final Cut, finally editing it, and then placing it into the announcements timeline. I think that it took me about 3 hours to get that 1 minute Global Day of Prayer video into these announcements.

March 23, 2008

I think this is the first video that I uploaded onto Youtube. It's also the first one that I edited with Final Cut, so I'm just learning here.