Month: April 2010

Road trip through Gorzyca

Production date: May 2006
Playout date: 15/6/2006
Camera: Fuji Finepix
Post Production: Windows Movie Maker
Location: Gorzyca, Poland, near Kostrzyn.

One viewer, from the 1800 plus which this has had in the first four years, instructed me to “get life” (sic) for taking this film, but when you have to drive the car anyway, and that is part of your life, then recording it and sharing it is hardly the same as needing to get out a bit more! This is the first ever “driving while filming” style, but the first of many. I’ll have a section in here for road trips as well as the Scenes from Poland and see how many km of road my viewers and I have travelled down together.

I didn’t know when I did this how much of it I would start doing, but I see that roads do have a certain beauty and driving down them does fill a certain need in our psyches, not just for me. The average rating was 3,57 which in YT’s brand new “digg” style system translates to 5 likes and 2 dislikes. Not sure what the equation for that is.

Almost all my filming-while-driving footage has been in my current car, which is a Chrysler Grand Voyager. I had taken stills photos from my previous car, but not filmed in it. The car by the way was less than two months old when I did this, so my filming while driving technique really started almost concurrently with getting this car.

Fury Bound
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Theo of Golden: A Novel
4.7 out of 5 stars(47592393)
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Halt!!! Verboten!!!

Production date: May 2006
Playout date: 15/6/2006
Camera: Fuji Finepix
Post Production: Windows Movie Maker
Location: Kaltenkirchen

When I look back at this now, I can’t believe we had been in Copenhagen and were on our way back and we popped into Kaltenkirchen just to see a friend, Andreas, and I was just filming on the offchance as I really wasn’t used to filming back then so it simply hadn’t been entering my head. I had very little time on my memory card back then anyway. I just had no idea that there could be any interest in these walkabout films.

It’s interesting that back in 2006 when most people still hadn’t heard of YT, getting a camera out and filming anything was something bound to evoke comment, as it did from these kids, who tried to provoke me by saying it was forbidden to photograph the town’s fountain. I kidded them back saying that “verboten” is a word much beloved of Germans, which is actually not necessarily the case, but since they provoked first, I reckoned I was not too mean to be trolling them a bit.

The Fine Art of Lying: A Novel
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Our Perfect Storm
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Huliganov sings “Volare”

Production date: 15/6/2006
Playout date: 15/6/2006
Camera: Logitech Webcam
Post Production: Windows Movie Maker
Location: At Home

Uploaded first to YT on 15th June 2006, this was quite well received by the listening public, with nearly one thousand views per year, no really adverse comments, and an average rating of about 4 stars under the old system. One person kindly pointed out that it’s “dal vento rapito” whereas I had it as “rapido”, but I say that if the wind is going to go about kidnapping people, it must be quite a rapid wind anyway. If the wind were to kidnap people slowly it wouldn’t be able to get them to go where it wanted, so it’s not a big error.

This is one of the first times Huliganov sings baritone, and also one of the first times I do a song without a lengthy introduction.

I think it’s also one of the first times I put the lyrics on screen, and also one of the first times I used that scrolling into the distance effect from WMM.

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Full-Cast Edition)
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Influence, New and Expanded: The Psychology of Persuasion
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Patriota

First played out on 6th June 2006, This one has four years later over 40,000 hits and rising, all because any theme involving Polish patriotism is going to get the hits, no doubt about it. It is of course flattening off a bit now, because the personas involved are maybe less central than they were, but it’s an election year and this may go up again.

Over half the voters on the ratings for this film didn’t like it. I don’t especially like it either, I just threw together some random online newspaper images together with audio of leading politician Jaroslaw Kaczynski’s dire rendition of the Polish National Anthem, and somehow I got something that people found very provocative, even though it doesn’t add up to a great meaning, one way or another. It was only an experiment, as was most of my stuff in the first year I was on YT.

A Parade of Horribles: Dungeon Crawler Carl, Book 8
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Red Verdict
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