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Terrace Update
Original YT playout date: 10 September 2009
Duration: 6:15
I took this footage a couple of months back and kinda overlooked playing it out, but here goes. Obviously some of the flower shots at the end are a joke – they’re not all on my terrace! The fence is creosoted now, which means it has the same colour as the patio boards.
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Not the Alan Titchmarsh Show – with Bot Shots
Original YT playout date: 11 July 2009
Duration: 10:21
A rather interrupted look at my garden. I lost some of the stills I took for the end bit so I made them up with other bot (anical) shots I made earlier. The song is “Vecher na reyde”.
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Fat Blokes on Tea
Original YT playout date: 26 June 2008
Duration: 1:07:25
A hopefully amusing conversation on the terrace between three middle aged men in varying degrees of overweightness. Regardless of the alcohol-free nature of the occasion we manage to talk amusingly for some period and do some impromptusinging for the neighbours. This contains such gems as Moggy and Alan’s matrimonial ads, a rendition of “”Two Little Boys””, and a history lesson about Braveheart, all unscripted and unrehearsed.
Enjoy. We did. (I think).
Later that day we rang the radioshow together that you can see on this channel as the item before this.
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Huliganov’s “Je ne regrette rien”
Original playout date: 18 August 2007
Duration: 5:10
We’re out on the terrace again, one of my favorite places to be, this time the Fuji is doing the filming even though I am on the computer and usually use the Logitech webcam in the computer for singing to. But I always used to keep on experimenting with new methods. But the reason is that this time I am playing the chords and singing to at the same time. This is because I didn’t like any of the available backing tracks I could find for this one.
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Gardenvid #1 in the deep mid April
Playout date: 6 May 2007
Duration: 10:00
This was going to be a series of gardening videos and in fact it didn’t turn into a series in the sense that I normally do it. I might still do a gardening series one day, if only I could get the hang of gardening…
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Rollerblade Lesson
| Video number in my collection | 68 |
| Production date: | 23 July 2006 |
| Playout date: | 23 July 2006 |
| Camera: | Logitech Webcam |
| Post Production: | Windows Movie Maker – slight use |
| Location: | Home on the terrace |
| Genre: | Family |
| Soundtrack info: | None, just ambient noises |
| Languages used: | Russian |
| Animals featured: | None |
| Date added here: | 26 September 2010 |
| Number of days this video was up at time of posting: | 1 526 |
| Number of views at time of posting: | 2 638 |
| Number of views per day: | 1,7 |
| Number of comments at time of posting (don’t forget to click through to read the comments!): | 3 |
| Comments per thousand views: | 1,1 |
| Likes at time of posting: | 2 |
| Dislikes at time of posting: | 2 |
| Likes to dislikes ratio: | 1,0 |
| Votes per thousand views: | 1,5 |
| Ratio of comments to votes: | 75% |
Just a nice simple video of a sunny morning and Sophie’s time in 2006 with her cousin Vika from Belarus. She was staying with Sophie over the Summer. Irina is teaching the girls to rollerblade, but they are falling about all over the place.
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Never Smile!
Production date: 5 July 2006
Playout date: 5/7/2006
Camera: Fuji Finepix
Post Production: None
Location: Home on terrace
This short piece with me singing the crocodile song from Walt Dismal’s Peter Pan as Sophie rides her blow-up croc in the pool we had mainly for me, four years later, shows up the toys that really stood the test of time (we still have the slide and the plastic truck George is on, but the rocking-horse is gone. The croc is still with us and went to France this summer – where it would have stayed if I hadn’t intervened!). In the main there is far less stuff in general on the terrace – we didn’t have even room for a pool this year!
This has been watched quite a bit, and the stats have been steady at about 500 a month.
Summer Morning on the Terrace
Production date: 27 June 2006
Playout date: 27/6/2006
Camera: Fuji Finepix
Post Production: None – but audioswap done in YT
Location: Home on terrace
This 26 second otherwise very ordinary piece is worth commenting on for two reasons, really. firstly, it has for no apparent reason risen to over 500 views per month on average for the simple reason that the centre frame features “Aunty” Irina in a black bikini. This tells us the easy way to achieve success on YT.
The second point worth commenting is that the same video has had now three audio tracks – the first was uploaded just with the camera sound that was going on that morning, and shortly after that YT started to offer a feature called “audioswap” where you could get royalty free music (in exchange for allowing an advert on the side of the piece concerned) and replace the original soundtrack with this. It was a good way round the time when you could get a good piece of video blocked and a black mark on your account for using proprietary music.
I replaced the audio that wasn’t copyrighted with one “royalty free” track offered by YT, and shortly after they told me it was blocked and so I had to do the audio swap again. You could in theory audioswap a piece of video as often as you liked.
