Well…I’ve found something new to occupy my time - and it may well turn into another hobby (I’ll try not to make it an obsession too soon), Armed with just a Logitech webcam, a Canon EOS Rebel (for stop motion stuff), a green screen (on it’s way), a copy of Microsoft Moviemaker (with a couple of add-ons) and a whole heap of imagination I have entered into the world of film-making and Vlogging…as evidenced by my last post.

So, as you can imagine - I have been playing around with editing and perfecting my greenscreen approach all weekend in between band rehersal, brass lesson and getting my haircut!

My latest entry into the ‘Youtube’ verse is something called an AMV - Anime Music Video; the idea being you take an anime film (I chose Final Fantasy the Spirit Within) and you use footage edited against your chosen favourite track (I chose ‘Hide and Seek’ by Imogen Heap) I chose these two because they seemed a good match but you can be the judge…my thanks go to the original artists without whom this sort of thing would have been impossible.

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It’s not long now till the start of my looooooong weekend. I’m hoping the weather stays the way it has been behaving today, cool, crisp, refreshing and sunny with a light wind! I’m quite fired up internally about doing a VLOG; even if it ends up just being a one off - because lets face it; I ain’t the most photogenic?! One problem I can’t get through my head is what sort of camera to use, do I just get a bog standard ‘webcam’ which can be picked up in most stores, or do I save a bit more money and go for a more expensive digital camera? The latter would be nice since I could go out and about and ’share’ some of Wellington with you guys back in the UK???

What to do….What to DO?!!!

I’m sure I’ll come up with an idea by Monday - in the meantime I am jotting down a few storyboard ideas - well!! I gotta have ’some’ sort of structure even if it is on a Vlog! I’m a purfectionist (well…sometimes) - and on a more positive note, I won today’s lunchtime poker game!! Which makes about three wins and two 2nd places for this month, I take that as a good omen for this weekend

I’ll probably blog again later on. I watched ‘Hero’ starring Jet Li last night - it’s a pretty cool flick - I’d LOVE to be able to walk and fly across water like they do in that film….hmmmm (scribbles down mental note to figure out a way of doing this in a vlog)….

edit - ‘actually’ if any of YOU have any ideas or suggestions of what I could do for my first VLOG then please, leave me a comment here….no really!! PLEASE!! =p