Audio/Video
Multimedia has developed on the internet in a variety of ways from streaming embedded clips to full downloadable mpgs.
My knowledge of audio packages is fairly extensive ranging from recording spoken word lessons for tutorial CDs that shipped with the distance learning courses I used to teach to creating music videos and interviews. My experience includes directing, editing, producing, filming audio cleaning and distributing. I am also very familiar with packages like Cubase and Cakewalk. Today though I have little need for anything more complex than Audition for everything.
As for my understanding of digital video itself, I can say I know my way around a video editing suite. I have, in the past used packages such as Pinnacle, Final Cut and Premier to edit movies and content.
the Fun Underground Cubase Theme
I have a number of audio recordings that I could place here that would demonstrate my experience with recording and audio processing, but as they are either boring lectures, illicitly inappropriate podcasts, or otherwise unsuitable due to a lack of interesting example techniques. So, instead I'm posting a song I made years ago while experimenting with Cubase. In case you're wondering, the Fun Underground is what we called our office as it was in the basement, next to the games room.
This song is created entirely from sound fonts and clips. There are only a handful and each "instrument" heard represents just one clip. I took each clip and reedited it to suit the sound, beat, and melody I wanted. Click the link once to start it, and again if you want to stop it.
6 Weeks in Costa Rica
In 2002 two friends and I decided to explore one of the best stretches of surf in the world. As they were semi-pro and I wasn't I decided it would be a great opportunity to make a short film. Unfortunately, at the time of creating this portfolio site, I couldn't transfer the edited video files to a suitable format like .mpeg or .mov. The files were edited in Studio7 which I no longer have installed on my system and so cannot open them to export the final product. Nor do I have any other editing software to prep what uncut footage I do have access to. I had previously only exported them directly to videotape in order to distribute. So, suffice to say they are completely edited, finished, and ready to export.
The film itself is a travelogue of Costa Rica focusing on the famous surf spots on the Pacific coast and includes many hard to get close up water shots which required a waterproof rig for the DV camera. Unfortunately, one of the two other people who were featured in the film died shortly after returning. As a result there is a secondary focus in the editing to feature him in memoriam. Various scenes that were filmed solely for the benefit of personal use, like an impromptu spanish ballad in the night breaze of an open air bar on the beach in Nosara were added in their entirety as a way to remember the moment.
Other features included a full sound track (including the ballad previously mentioned which continues to play over the last surfing scene and the credits), a fast forward time lapse recording of hundreds of miles of driving condensed into a few minutes for the opening credits, and a hidden track intended to be used for the transfer to DVD.
Icepax
For the last 6 months I have been filming and editing music videos as a part of my work with Invention. With a small team, I have conducted interviews with some of the headline acts at a club in Bath called Moles. The list of bands includes Franz Ferdinand, The Volt, Frank Turner, Red Light Company, Chriss TT, The Rushes and more. Here are the videos I have edited, filmed or otherwise been credited on
Most of the videos were editied in Final Cut, one or two were done with Premiere. The audio for several of the clips was particularly awful due to inadequate recording mics, and so required signioficant cleaning in Audition.
BSU tutorial project
This is a video I developed for use in an instructional training application as a part of my degree qualification at Bath Spa. The video was eventually rotoscoped and frame by frame animated for use in the Flash based tutorial.
BSU DVD
Again, another example of work taken from my time at BSU, this time a film and DVD project demonstrating the use of Encore DVD as a pro distribution package for DVD authoring.
Touchspace
The following videos were developed to provide a taster/introduction to a web application service that I helped to create called Touchspace. I produced, edited, and even provided the voice over for all of the videos listed.
Tom Corniel - music video
This is the first full length music video I have ever produced. Tom Corniel is a singer songwriter in Bath and asked to have a music video shot to help promot his new single. As Executive Producer I shot some of the footage, edited the video and treated the sound.