Adventures in Video!

Hello again,

I've long harboured a desire make awesome videos, a desire that I'm clearly yet to fulfill, and it was with this in mind that I decided to do the dissertation for my current course (an MSc in Multimedia Games Engineering) on video. In my head I was going to make the most amazing film ever seen, using a camcorder and adding special effects in premiere and photoshop. I was planning on making Lord of the Rings using my more ugly friends as Orcs. However my tutor swiftly scuppered my plans and reminded me that I couldn't do a dissertation which was essentially me arsing around. I concede that he probably had a point, even if it means the world will have to live without me making awesome videos for a little longer.

In the end he decided what I should really do is some kind of melding of Flash and video. As you can no doubt imagine, this prospect was a lot less thrilling than my original idea of faffing around with special effects and filming in my basement with a green screen. However, as he is marking the thing I had to agree, and so the last few months I have been slaving away discovering what one can up get to with video and Flash - and the result of my toils is THIS. Have a go on the thing and tell me what you think. It is intended to demonstrate that video can be fairly interactive and can be used in more ways than simply providing something to watch a la YouTube and Google Video et al. It's fairly unpolished, and if I get time before I hand it in I need to make a couple of changes, but it works, it's mildly amusing and I managed to fit a Flash Gordon reference into it, so all in all I'm pretty happy with it innit.

You may notice (because it says it alot) that the music is by Nine Inch Nails and I will take this opportunity to warn you that Trent Reznor and his awesome new website will be very likely be the subject of my next post on here.

Right, I'm off to write my bastard dissertation.

See yas laters,

Aidan x