Wednesday, February 03, 2010
Wednesday, December 02, 2009
Thursday, November 19, 2009
Thock, Conservative
This is a rough version of my proposed new advert for the Conservative party. I originally had this idea two years ago.
Ideally, I would like the there to be a sound of cricket ball against cricket bat (to give that familiar 'thock', so redolent of Tory values) rather than the wicket sound that we have at the moment. Also, I think that it would be better without the commentators at the end and more prolonged, polite applause.
If anyone knows where I can find such sounds I would be very grateful if they told me.
Please let me know your thoughts.
Monday, November 16, 2009
Thursday, November 05, 2009
Monday, November 02, 2009
Sunday, March 29, 2009
First Teenage Dirtbag in the Whitehouse
You're probably better off watching the video before reading this – but, you know, do what you want. This video started off as an innocent little idea of mine on election night. Now, months later, it has metamorphosed into a whole Sunday afternoon's worth of ball ache. Converting the video into something that iMovie would go anywhere near took up most of the time. During its long journey the original speech video (all 30 minutes of it) was at various times an .flv file, an .avi file, a corrupt .mov file, an .m4v file, an .mp4 file and then finally a working .mov file. The sides are chopped off and the quality is awful but I don't care anymore. Also (to continue this little paragraph of geeky complaining), getting the audio to sound stadiumy was not straightforward. GarageBand has a reverb option but this and all the other effects seem to do pretty much nothing at all. Some tugging at a graphic equaliser at least let me put the bass up good and high and this sort of achieved what I wanted.
The video converting thing that worked in the end was called ffmpegx By The Way.
Enjoy!
