Yesterday was the first day of the 2010 Thinking Digital Conference (#Thinking Digital) – and I made some great connections. After registering for the conference and some networking at the Eye on the Tyne, some of us headed for the bus to take us to the ‘Video for the Web’ workshop at Gateshead College. We played ‘follow my leader’ off the bus (it’s been ages since I went on a trip bus!) and met Christian Payne who was running the session. The room was filled with about 30 Macs for us to play with and we had an enforced game of musical chairs until someone went to steal some more from an unsuspecting lecturer.
The session itself was filled with information from what equipment Christian uses to trek across the world creating guerrilla-style documentaries to camera angles, composition and how to make a compelling 12 second video.
At the end of the workshop we got into groups of 3 to create our own video, putting into practice what we’d learned. Here’s our output – filmed and edited in about 20 minutes so the editing is very rough and the sound effects are in the wrong place! We learned that less is more (the sound effects were actually distracting) and most importantly to keep it short. Thanks Christian!
