Wight News on Hold!

Wight News has been on hold for a while now as the weather has turned for the worse. While the weather was good we managed to get one outdoor scene done but we couldn’t get the last one done in time.

The last one was supposed to be filmed at a football match with friends but we never were able to organize it. Now the weather is wet, cold and windy we have to wait until next year when the weather gets a little better.

The outdoor scene that we managed to get done was a very tedious but a good laugh. We filmed it at a friend’s balcony/garden thing at their house while they were on holiday. For the scene we used a handheld microphone for the Anna and Luke while David took on the role of being a sound man. I mounted the main microphone on to the camera for any background noise that we would need.

Hopefully we’ll have this film done by mid 2012.

Luke is getting impatient

NEW MAN

Short little advert for NEW MAN hair products!

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David came up with this – it was virtually unscripted but it came out really well and it was great fun to make.

It was the first time that Luke used the microphone with boom pole and the external audio recorder. It seemed like a professional film shoot!

WRITTEN AND DIRECTED BY:

David Selby

STARRING:

David Mansfield

Simon West

Barbara Mansfield

BEHIND THE SCENES

 

 

 

 

My Micra v Bimmer

My Nissan Micra overtakes a BMW!

The exterior car shots were shot with a HD Bullet Camera from Dogcam Sport but I dubbed over the sound.

HD Bullet Camera Test

Bought a Dogcam Sport HD bullet camera which is an awesome little thing that shoots at 720p. Of cause there are better bullet cameras but this is pretty good for such a small size, and I stuck to my brother’s car for a little test video. Maybe in the future I could use it in a film. Perhaps in a S.A.S raid?

The Camera

 

 

APPLE FIGHT

The UK Riots of 2011 have reached the Isle of Wight – Whitwell has unleashed Apple HELL.

I had a load of friends and family over for a BBQ one Sunday afternoon and we ended up having the most epic apple fight ever with crab/cooking apples. The objective is simply to hit the other opponent and we protect ourselves with bats and planks of wood etc. Its a lot of fun.

I decided to film it for fun. Then I thought I’d edit it together and I ended up with an epic film!

The song is called ‘Escape’ by Craig Armstrong.

Wagon arrives at Whitwell Station

I made a video for my parents business about the delivery of an old, vintage train wagon at our house. Its basically decoration for it and the self catering business.

My parents run a self catering holiday accommodation business at the house, which is an old Railway Station. The waiting room and ticket office were converted into two cottages nearly 20 years ago, while we live in the Station Master part of the house.

The new wagon adds to feel of the unique holiday location, and this video will be an help in the advertisement.

Visit the website - www.whitwellstation.co.uk

Workers and volunteers from Havenstreet lay the track.

The Wagon arrives on the lorry.

Wagon overlooks the entrance to Whitwell Station

Wight News!

Luke and David looking good.

My new gadget went to good use!

Frame from the Studio Scene

‘Wight News’ will be a comedy news sketch set where we live on the Isle of Wight. We’ve been working on the studio scenes, which are done and look pretty good. Only 2 more main scenes now have to be done now – the weather and the sports which I’m in! There will be little mini scenes as well that will be used as footage for the news headlines.

For the studio scenes, I had Luke and David sitting at their anchor desk with their ‘papers’ and laptops, with the Rode Stereo Videomic above them on a stand connected to a portable audio device. This mean’t I needed the clapperboard so I could sync the footage with the audio. The scene was lit by two halogen lights on separate stands pointed up on to the ceiling. The ceiling acted as a deflector and gave a nice soft light on to the ‘anchormen’.

We filmed over 1 and a half hours worth of footage for only 5 mins worth of scenes!

Facebook Pictures

TVR Sagaris and S3 Drive Video

Awesome video featuring two awesome TVRs from two different eras. A TVR S3 and TVR Sagaris.

New Website Online!

I’ve finally completed the new website – check it out! I’ve tried to make it as visually appealing as possible, giving clear links to all my content including Twitter, Facebook, YouTube and my blog. I’ve also made it easier for myself in the sense of adding films and editing the site in general.

There are a few glitches with the site with some browsers. So far I know of problems with Firefox and Internet Explorer, but it all works fine in Safari and Chrome…as far as I know. I know that black boxes appear around linked images, I know what it is but I have no idea how to get rid of it. It’s not too much of a problem because I don’t think it completely ruins the look of the site. I’m afraid I’m still relatively new to Dreamweaver.  If you find any other glitches, please email me.

But please, go check it out!

Bend it like Beckham

Yeah…I’m brilliant at football…

I haven’t uploaded this to my main channel because its not that good. Its not exciting enough! If you haven’t guessed already, its fake. I did it in After Effects by merging two elements together and making the ball change course. I recorded me kicking the ball normally and where I want the ball to hit/land, then I masked out the ball, made it curl and line up with the ball landing while covering up the original ball. It came out quite nicely. However, I had some problems when recording the footage from the camcorder on to the computer. You can see it in the video, it’s a bit jumpy. I don’t know why so I’ll have to do some tests. It might be because I converted it from 25 to 24 frames per seconds.

Its only test really for a video I had in mind.

See the raw footage here:

Some making of photos:

Raw

Ball Masked Out

New Ball

Both Balls