vlog trailer

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Recording minutes of video this week, nothing set up, just point and make sure the red light is showing. A one minute trailer of some of the material. Ideas are easy, it's the editing that takes the time. Quicktime, 2.38Mb, 320x240....

choose a chocolate

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Chatting in my favourite wholefood shop. Choose your favourite chocolate - it's organic so it must be good. It takes a long time to do the shopping but you can catch up on the local news and gossip doing it this way. Windows Media File, 3.2Mb

little cat diary #1

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they had Big Cat Diaries on BBC TV - a wildlife programme. This is the domestic little cats version - left side Fergus, right side Ellie. 2.04Mb, Quicktime colour, sound and shot on a camphone. Me-Tv viewers this is not a 320x240 movie so it'll look a bit distorted in their viewer. If you've not signed up for Me-Tv you are missng some great vlogs.

vloggercon nearly live

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3000 miles away, watching it happen - Vloggercon 2005 - great to see the people behind the videos.

vlog short easy

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a simple message vlogging is easy and fun. Quicktime, a mere 922k and barely 30 seconds.

big wheel views

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Oh these files are getting a bit big, 4.48Mb - Windows Media wmv. Here the two biffas take a trip on a big ferris wheel - your chance to see city centre Manchester, England

animation

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you don't need a video camera to videoblog. this quick and rough animation was made with a fax machine, picture editing software, and Quicktime Pro. It's a story of too many burgers makes you overweight.
1) Draw pictures with a black ink pen on a couple of sheets of paper.
2) Scan them into your computer. I used a fax machine to send them as an email to myself - it was the easiest thing to do at work.
3) Make seperate pictures with picture editing software. Use Quicktime Pro to build a movie from the stills.

No camera videoblogs could include - Powerpoint presentations, mashing-up downloaded movie clips or using screen capture software. More to follow.

the chippy

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after the pub call in at the chippy (fish and chip shop) on the way home, inebriated camphone user takes some footage. Quicktime 935k, 1.45 seconds.

36 Hours

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Musical excerpt from a play called "36 Hours" - the story of John Cooper Clarke. It's interesting even if you've never heard of one of Britain's most famous poets.
Shot on a Sony Cybershot DSC-120, mpeg, reduced to 1.73mb in Windows Movie Maker.


A bit weird to be a character in a play and have somebody play you. But Josephine Wyne-Eyton did on great acting job with my lines.

smash your telly

smash your telly
Originally uploaded by lorenzo23.

blog television download movie clips if you find something interesting.

cafe space

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Thought we'd try The Basement a sort of alternative cafe but very cheap prices, too cheap. Shot on camera phone - I don't know what's happening when I export this Quicktime movie but the size leaps up. Need to learn some compression tricks.

day slog

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A slog of a long day in pictures and scratchy sound. A Sony Ericsson K700i camphone creation, oh the wonders of Bluetooth in uploading photos and the soundtrack recorded in the voice memo. Quicktime 1.13Mb.

video payphone #1

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Now we've got a video payphone in town - record, save and email. Thought i'd give it a whirl. Low quality, heavily compressed, but it could have its blogging uses. But why have British Telecom chosen Windows Media File and not MPEG....

SnowTry

Snow is treat around these parts. It comes once a year and lasts a few days. After that the pavements and roads are trecherous ice rinks. We go and record the event it's such a rare happening.


Snowtry
Technical guff : Quicktime made on XP, 2.5mb , Detroit Cobras do the music they're great but my sound player is a bit faulty so it might be a bit tinny, shot on a Sony Cybershot DSC-P120 digital camera.

nothing sunday

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Oh have I had problems, still ill with a virus and the laptop is recovering from one too. Another jerky camphone video about a walk to the shops. Dani Siciliano gets the soundtrack and some street noise. Quicktime, 2.4Mb, 1.29 seconds, 176 x 144. These cameras are toys - fun and soon forgetable.

For something more interesting and more promising see:
Squeeze Project by Charlene. Remix a video yourself the rip and burn in 1Mb chunks.