After a bleak 4 months of no posting, I thought it was about time i start documenting all the work i have done over the summer. The excuse of being a stereotypical student over the summer and projecting all my notes into the air as i run out the exam hall, forgetting about the worries of anything Filming related is something i cannot say i have done. In fact, it’s the exact opposite. If it wasn’t working in my “part time” job in Otto Lounge, I have been either glued to Final Cut (version 7.2. I am no lazy X editor) or permanently attached to my extra limb; a very suave Canon 700D with an 18-135mm; impressive I know.

With filming the Giants in Liverpool, to running my own quiz night in Otto’s i thought i couldn’t have managed taking another thing on. However when charming Zacc Keogh approached me about being involved with the videographer on his new dance show, all i could imagine were the children’s puppy saucer eyes; how could i say no? With one night a week dedicated to film (and even a few lunch hours in between shifts at Ottos), slowly it was all coming together nicely. The show came sprinting around the corner, 800 tickets sold for the show being held in New Brighton’s Floral Pavilion, Zac’s sound mixer going AWOL, everything began to work against us. It left me sleep deprived for a number of nights before with Zacc pirouetting around my living room while I attempted cutting the tracks together. Using Audacity (2.0.6 version) I exported all the tracks, completely mixed to the count.

Before i knew it show day was upon us. All my videos were to be projected onto a 10 x 7.5ft projector screen, streamed through a very suave Sanyo XP57 with a 1.3mm lens and I had been promoted to not only videographer, editor, sound mixer, but now visual operations for the show. In a last minute rush I ran to PC World for a VGA Converter and switched to split screen on my macbook. The whole show went perfectly without any hitches and it is safe to say there wasn’t a dry seat in the house!

For souvenir purposes, I edited the entire show, inserting the raw footage into the pre edited clips, designing a personalised DVD menu on Adobe Illustrator and creating a DVD cover on Adobe Photoshop CS6.