Skinny Intros

While looking up videos on Youtube I got to checking out the intros these guys have.

You know the one, When you start a video it has the theme music and some text about the people making the vid... Well while I was looking up sony vegas tutorial I got the idea to make myself one

And here it it!

Hope you guys liked it, took a little bit of work and brain power but I think its looking pretty good

Bitting Elbows' Bad Motherfucker

This is something different... 

This short-film from Ilya Naishuller is peged as Mirror’s Edge MeetsReservoir Dogs this short film is alot of fun and I would love to do something like it one day... Might have to get a go-pro at some point lol

South West Spinning Video

Last weekwend I went down to the tunnels under Waterloo for a burn, I already posted the pics and a full blog about it but this time I wanna talk about the video I shot!

I mostly went down to shoot stills for tis event but I also wanted to get some video, I have never really shot a video with fire before and I through as I have some gear with me I might give it a try... My video editting skills are (very) Slowly coming together but I did not just wanna lead from one clip to the next with this video, I wanted it to be choppy and fast with lots of cut aways and stuff.

It took me 3 days to find the right music to go along with the video. With the help of a friend I found a great one... Ants by edIT. It was both a fast pasted and slow pasted tune with alot of jumps and cuts in it... Trouble is I could not get all the cuts in the vid to mix with the music. There is a part where the track fades out really slowly and then stops before coming back in again. I ended up putting a slow-mo bit of myself spinning in there and I wanted it to blend it into a clip of Ems doing hoop where she is going slow and then Pushes the hoop super fast around her... aka bring the slow - stop - fast bits of the music into the slow - stop - fast bit of the video. My timing was off andit just sticks out like a thumb after some trouble with a very large door.

I have looked it over a few times on youtube (over 8 hours on the upload this time) and there are a million little things I wanna change, The slow-mo bit I talked about earlier is something I would have liked to use more, at the start with the burn off would have been a good one. Cut away clips with next to no one in them slow down the video and I would have liked to have had a little more zoom on my len (24-70 would have been a good lens to bring)

Another thing I would have liked to ass was many more spinners, the event was pretty small and only about 7 spinners so you see the same faces and moves alot and my own clips were ramrod stiff as no one was behind the camera to be zoomed in and flowy.

Anyways... Here is the video I finished with and next time I go to a burn I am going togo and only shoot video - see if I can make something a little better.

Filming TLC!

Last week I shot an event in north London called TLC (the London juggling convention). I have shot this event before but this time there was a difference, I was shooting Video!

Now I am not know for my video shooting and I have never dont that much with video but I really would love to get into this kinda work, I love motion and I use it in many of my still photography but shooting using an d-SLR is not very easy, They are not made for this kinda work and as such lack some features like a body that you can hold easily, A tripod is a must and the screens are not the best for checking if the image is sharp.

With the new frimwear that I just got it is made a little easyer but I did not have that at the time.

Anyways, Tonight I had a look at some of the footy and put together the 1st draft of the video. just over 6mins long at 720p and its already a 60gb file (God knows what it would have been at 1080p)

I feel like i got the idea of the event but the best act of the night I cant post as Feeding The Fish do not wish it to be on the web, I have done a very sneek peek of there act but each of the 5 clips are less then a second long... I will upload it when I feel it is good enough and that upload will take the better part of a day after the last vid I shot for spit took over 5hours!

Video of ME!

Funny the things that come up when your looking around on facebook these days.

As you might had read in an earlier post this month, I went to a beach burn in London. The usual people where there but we had a few more togs then normal, I chatted as I always do with everyone but one of the guys was not shooting stills but video. 

This is what I found on FB tonight:

It is some good work and for once I got some footy of me spinning. This is his YouTube Channel feel free to check it out.

Lets Start With Tues

Lets start at the start of the week.... Aka Tuesday lol!

As you guys know every Tuesday is spits for me, But It was also my Dads 59th birthday so I knew it was going to be a long one for me. We got to my folks place around about 15.30 and had a really short but nice time. Dad was really happy and  I got to get the tickets to my dads surprise pressy. 

To make things even more fun was I was carrying my whole kit bag as I needed it for later in the night, including my tripod but had to cross most of London with it all. 

I ended up having fun at spits and bumped into a few friends on rote (I never meet anyone I know in London let alone 3 of them at different points). I did some video and got some more tips from the guys how shoot videos a lot more than me...

I was really happy with this video, but this will be my last for a little while, my life's just to busy and this week I want to just spin! Talking of spinning, I got given a new staff from a friend for a really great price so Thanks dude. My glow staff should last a little longer thanks to you hehe

I love Tech!!

I know this is not going to be a shock to anyone that reads this but I really really do!

Take this image I shot at BVE!

Green screens... Good?

Now, A little back story... 

This was a stand at last weeks BVE, It is a tech demo of some software that they were selling. The idea was that you can have multi feeds coming into a computer, Audio/Video and feeds from outside the studio. 

She was sitting on a stall with a screen and keyboard in front of her, and a green screen behind her. This software would take the feeds from 3 cameras, and cut her out past her in on the "news" set, add effect including shadows, reflections and a lot more things that I did not understand.

The screen above her head is the finished look, all done in real time and it really looked amazing!

BVE - Broadcast Video Expo (20120215)

A Canon I don't know but played with none the less

For the people that don't know (don't worry I did not know till a few weeks ago) BVE stands for Broadcast Video Expo... aka an Expo for all the people in and around broadcasting. Television and live shows but almost anything to do with Video.

Now as you guys know I only just got into video(and still have a lot to learn) but I was looking forward to getting out and seeing what's happening in this world. My friend invited me to go along and as I was free I said, "why not?" Trouble is that he got ill the night before and could not make it.

A Sheep... Don't Ask

Now I was starting to think about not going, I knew nothing of this world and my friend would have been my guide, Showing me the ropes and telling me about things I did not yet understand. Now without anyone to tell me about this and that it seemed like it would just be a waste. But when the day came and with a little pep talk from Fluff, I through "What The Hell, It might just be a fun day out".

Me With The Nikon D4

I got to see some cool things at the show, most of it went right over my head and I belive i missed out on some cool things but at the same time I got to play with some call camera's, looked at some cool tech and best of all.... I got to hold the newest Nikon D4 before my ill friend could (His a BIG Nikon FanBoy!).

Just goes to show, Just cos its not going to be easy, does not mean you should miss out.

I (WILL) have some images on the site, if you would like to check them out click this LINK!

21th Century Skinny

As some of you might have seen on my YouTube Channel. I have been making some short clips for my juggling club "Spinning@".

The first was me just seeing what I could get, I have never really used the video on my new camera as I could not use my movie editing software. that changed after a chat with a fellow photography/camera man.

With a little work and some new software I got it working... So after my 1st spits (Spinning@) meeting using my camera in Filming mode!

Now I liked the vid but there were some things about it I really hated. the quietly of it was really bad and the formate was wrong. Also the settings on my camera were way out and most of the fast moving items just blurred.

I took some of the things my friends posted to me for advice and tips, Then used it with next weeks filming. I had some ideas and some images in my head so I set out to better my last film.



Now I believe this was much better, the quietly was much better, exported at 720p (the 1080p file was over 16GB), Trouble is that the formate was still the same once I uploaded it to YouTube. But that being said I am really happy with the idea behind the video. I will try again maybe not this week but I will do it soon, maybe when its a little warmer and were outside with more space.