http://www.vimeo.com/7052231The creation of the above video has been less painful than I feared – it has taken me about 15 h to put it together and this even includes some teething problems with the software which I had to overcome; this will make it more efficient next time.
This is evidence that there should be no formal barrier in regards to the technology available to create simple media productions for sharing on the Web ; the main hindrance may thus be mentally.
Having a ‘message’ to tell is probably the biggest obstacle and in this case this was helped by the requirements of the Digital Culture module. What will trigger it next time?
P.S. See the Blogger site to get some textual representation with the video.
#1 by Sarah Payne on October 14th, 2009
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Very professional looking result Henry! I know what you mean about the fear factor in using the new technology. It was harder to decide on a medium to use for my artefact than it was to master photoshop (which I managed with the help of some truely excellent online tutorials).
I am glad that I watched the video before reading the notes because I think it may have detracted from the visual message if I had done it the other way around.
#2 by tracy on October 15th, 2009
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Cool video Henry. The part I enjoyed most was the toy robots and the kids (or childlike) pictures. I think we still haven’t managed to capture that potential of our childlike imaginations in a real robot yet. But then I actually just want Optimus Prime to be real – I want big kick-ass robots that can tranform into cool vehicles, oh yes.
#3 by sian on October 15th, 2009
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Henry I really enjoyed this, I thought the first section captured the poignancy of the robot that came up during the film festival really well. I thought the attempt to come up with a loose taxonomy for robots was interesting too, though I wonder whether you needed to spell this out textually at the beginning – another approach might have been to let the images and (terrific) soundtrack do it themselves. BTW, anyone watching this hang on for the bit after the credits – the ‘land of hope and glory’ robot is the best of all!
#4 by silvanad on October 16th, 2009
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Hi Henry, I like your attempt at classifying different types of robots. I wasn’t aware of the range of robots besides the scary or funny types. And I agree, the violin playing robot was the best!