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(Lumiere films have no sound, are 60 seconds or less, have a fixed camera position - see http://videoblogging.info/lumiere for more information) This was shot and cut on my Nokia N93 phone. Not bad, for a phone. I hate London. I’m in Devon, staying at my father-in-law’s house on the River Dart. This is a Lumiere that I shot when I was out in a boat with him earlier this evening. This is him, rowing. I d love to share with you the sound of the oar, the boat and the water, but you ll have to imagine it. Apart from anything else, what he was saying is unbroadcastable. Earlier in the day, we went to Dartmouth on the ferry. I shot 120 clips, and cut them together as a little moving slideshow. But then I forgot my own rules, and cut them in Final Cut Pro instead of something quick easy like my phone or Quicktime. It didn t improve the quality of the finished product at all, I don t think - and I forgot to compress it before I went out for a drunken dinner. So now here I am at 11.45, with the video still stuck compressing and my Day 3 deadline unachievable. So it s lucky I shot this Lumiere. In some ways, I prefer it to the video I was going to post. I ll post the Dartmouth trip video as soon as it s done - which will be after midnight - and so maybe I ll even end up posting 2 videos tomorrow. Or maybe not. There s no need to show off, is there? As I finish writing this, it s 23:58 and the video is just about to finish uploading at Blip. Jesus. 23:59. Copied and pasted. Here we go.
