Cricket’s oldest and most illustrious contest – The Ashes – comes to a conclusion next week, so I suppose this is as good a time as any to resume work on my England’s One Man Army YouTube channel. I started the project over a year ago when I was experimenting with and fine tuning my (still rather basic) video editing skills, but have somewhat abandoned it since.
Well, abandoned is a bit strong, as I have changed computer systems twice in the last year, forcing me to archive all my recorded footage.
One of the most popular videos (28,000+ views) is this collection of run outs:
While we’re on the subject of YouTube, I quite like these new channel designs from an aesthetic and accessibility point of view. Yes, they aren’t perfect but do provide a smoother way of browsing videos. Still, after Wikia’s New Monaco, anything would be preferable. Click that link at your own peril… yeuch.
More videos on varying subjects to come, with a bit of luck.
A couple of years ago, I experimented with video game editing quite a bit, partly to try and get a bit better at cutting and splicing in general.
What with my recent photography at Hindley Cricket Club, I felt it appropriate to repost a video made with Brian Lara Cricket ’99 (PSX) from February 2007. I worked with a 30-second limit to try and communicate a rather prominent element of the game – edges.
The vid’s been knocking around YouTube for a couple of years and has managed to garner around 5,000 views, which isn’t that bad I would have thought.
Howzat for a blast from the past? Browsing YouTube and some of my old vids, I’ve been thinking it might be good to have a selection posted on the blog periodically, mostly to remind me to get off my butt and do more video editing.
Due to my current financial and erm, computational (?!) situation, I’m currently not able to produce movies as often as I would like.
Clearing out my old hard drive, though, I got the chance to revisit some videos from the Analogue Propaganda series, specifically the E4 Teleglitcher stings. I was surprised to find an awful lot of stuff I ruthlessly tossed on the wastepile rather than polishing, including this outtake, which has a somewhat different pace:
I wonder if E4 will be accepting submissions again soon? Oh goody… they are doing, right now! This is the perfect opportunity, methinks. Watch this space.
The titular video heading the Analogue Propaganda project, which explores non-analogue glitching and questions whether digital television really does provide a better viewing experience. The speech was grabbed from this vid on YouTube.
Visuals captured on a glitched up Freeview box. Sound is a mix of various glitch noises.
