4,500-year old stones<\/figcaption><\/figure>\nWell…<\/p>\n
One 4,500-year old rock and two mentals made good video subjects.<\/p>\n
Why?<\/p>\n
I have this idea of shooting three or four short, promotional videos for the podcast.<\/p>\n
I’ve done a bunch of run-throughs, in the studio, which just didn’t work very well.<\/p>\n
I had a problem of content which was solved with a bit of imagination; it was a problem because, when you think about it, two people sitting either side of a studio console either listening to music, or talking about stuff, doesn’t make for instantly engaging video.<\/p>\n
And video should be engaging.<\/p>\n
I also ran up against a problem of lighting. It seemed that no matter how much candlepower I put in to the studio, it was insufficient to produce a quality HD video.<\/p>\n
Everything looked grainy.<\/p>\n
I considered filming in black and white, in an attempt to work around the grainy problem, but then wondered if the video actually *needed* to be filmed in the studio.<\/p>\n
And so, today, while we were on our annual New Year’s Day random excursion, I thought we could have a crack at filming some scenes.<\/p>\n
Now, a bunch of hours later – and back home, watching Independence Day – I’ve built a library of sixteen individual scenes equal to 4m 40s of video.<\/p>\n
I’ll look at it all again tomorrow, when my head is less cluttered.<\/p>\n
I want to edit the film down to about 2m 30s\/2m 45s, but that’s not where it ends; soundtrack!<\/p>\n
When I started planning this video project, I was going to use one audio track, a piece of music, as the sound-bed. Now my thinking has changed.<\/p>\n
The more I’ve thought about this the more I think that one track would be wrong.<\/p>\n
Logic tells me that it would be better to use a compilation of track introductions; intros give me an opportunity to display greater breadth and depth than I would have, if I used just one track.<\/p>\n
My head tells me that intros would give me an opportunity to showcase a wider range of the styles of music that the show plays, rather than just one track\/musical style.<\/p>\n
So, this time tomorrow evening I might have my hands on the first prototype promo video for This Reality Podcast<\/a>.<\/p>\nErm.<\/p>\n
Would any advertising\/marketing people like to check my logic?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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