Room renovation -2-

Before:

Then:

Now:

the painting is done, the lights work, new swicthes and sockets are installed
the last tasks are the new laminate flooring and curtains

Garden impressions May/09

Room renovation -1-

Garden impressions April/09

Some electrical renovation work done (18/19.4.2009)

Cycle training 3

What a great trip, thank you Graham, loved the rain. Spend quite some time in The Telegraph Inn, and returning home at 22:30 through a deserted, dark and rainy Richmond Park was surreal, wonderful, you felt like the only person on earth.

Garden 2009 – 4. April

Cycle training 2

21 March 2009, 33 km, with Syoko and Graham

Cycle training

Mai/Juni steht die nächste Fahrradtour an (Gladbeck – Amsterdam – Ijsselmeer)

und das Training hat auf einer 14.2 km Schleife begonnen

Building a teleprompter

or view it in YouTube here

News Week Production Notes 2008

Since mid May 2008 I am producing a weekly video with the actual news of the week, in the vain hope yesterdays news may be of interest in the future.

We all tend to forget very quickly, maybe these short reminders of around 2 minutes length achieve to keep our memory fresh.

In this post I want to describe and document the technical background and changes throughout the productions of 2008, in reverse order.

In 2008, 33 videos have been produced, from Week 20 to Week 52. Here a chart of the length of each film:

Version 3.1 production notes from Week 51-52 of 2008

Background sound has been changed, from a Ting Tings loop to instrumental versions of Hallelujah (51) and Piano Silent Night (52)

Version 3.0 production notes from Week 48-50

Video is now produced in High definition (HD), to comply with YouTube specifications. Previous versions can be viewed in HQ, by adding the comand &fmt=18 to the Youtube URL.

Version 2.4 production notes from Week 43-48

intro now dynamic, with picture (43: poppies, 44: Big Ben in snow) or animated (45: US flag to commemorate Obama election). Also in 45, a converted YouTube video was used in the end section instead of a movie trailer. This should be a exception, the focus remains on movie trailers.

Version 2.3 production notes from Week 42

while trailer clip starts, foreground image of Bleiglass and window turns dark and unsaturated, to imitate lights going out in cinema

Version 2.2 production notes from Week 36-41

addition of a 8 sec closing sequence with credits & artwork of young Bleiglass

Version 2.1 production notes from Week 32-35

new ending, with visit to movies and short (10-15sec) trailer clip viewed thorugh window

Version 2.0 production notes from Week

Dynamic view through the window, image zoom (out) against window zoom (in)

Version 1.3 production notes from Week 26/2008

a new sound loop was created using Apple Garageband. Also the final title “see you next week” was further animated, it now zooms in.

Version 1.2 production notes from Week 25/2008

Still using Photoshop, the window design was adjusted, now looking more like a window and not like a picture hanging on a wall and lightning now appears being top left and not from right side.

Version 1.1 production notes from Week 24/2008

From week 24 onwards finally the new software was used: Final Cut Express 4, and with the help of LiveType, the start and end titles were animated.

Version 1.0 – News Week 20-23/2008

For these first releases I used the Apple iMovie Software. The window and each new item was pre-build individually in Photoshop.