Wednesday 28 November 2007

Final thoughts




what i would do different

use shorter clips,the real rocking bits of the film use about 20-30 second clips.tho there is space for longer meditative bits....chek out the weird pysedelic bit with billie pipe going mental.....

use less archive/more archive footage. i wanted to get a feeling of swindon today, now you cant know your future without knowing your past but i think we could make two films with the footage we have. one slighty dreamy version reminissing about swindons past, and another of an overall veiw of swindon.

the software worked well,tho it did crash twice during the performance..,i blame billie...and the fact i was recording off the output.i just have to keep on updating the software. find new effects, ways to present images, but i see the software as a growing entity..,and the mix it made was a good starting point.

i was pleased with the sound, but more sound clips would have been good. unfortunatly due to cinema restrictions we couldnt go quadraphonic on the night,which is a real shame...the quadraphenia worked realy wel, and added an additional psycedleic elemen to the film....better luck next time...


things i learnt and didnt know about....

finding out about how much stuff was on youtube, and especialy the bbc website made finding archive footage a real joy.i wasnt expecting to find so much stuff.

peoples enthusiasm.., it seemed people realy liked the idea, and the film gave an enjoyable veiwing experience. people watched out for their own clips, and recognised bits from the film.it also gave an oppertunity for a stroll down memory lane.

how easy it was to edit the clips.......
i used i am the mighty jungulator, to manpulate both the sound and vision
quicktime to quickly chop and edit the film
TubeTV to download and keep films from youtube
Snapz pro to grab video and audio from real audio sources and dvds
Sound Studio to edit sounds
Imovie to edit all the selfgeneragtive chuncks into each other

how easy it was getting a blog tgether to explain the process...(tho would still llike to work out how to get proper links on the page......)


one final ting....im going to stick the media on a computer at the reate centre, so people can add to it if they want to. and also im working on an internet streaming self generative video juke box,,,,more on that when i get time.....

cheers and thanks.......


matthew x

Self Generative Portrait Of Swindon, the movie


here you go in its 52 minuet glory....


ive taken four self generative runs and crashed edited them in imovie. i havent done much editing,,,just balanced the sound(as best as possibe) and put some tranistions inbetween the clips
two of the clips used were from the performance (and probley the reason why the player crashed).

Friday 2 November 2007

Music Alive




been in contact with debbie from music alive!.....theyre contributing some of their extensive archive for use with the project.....

check em out here.....

Seven Wonders OF SWindon




tobias pointed this one out....artists Jasper FForde on the seven wonders of swindon.....

check it out......

Swindon history centre




The Wiltshire and Swindon History Centre opens to the public on 31 October 2007...........

heres its website......


The Wiltshire and Swindon History Centre opens to the public on 31 October 2007.

Recording off real media


the BBC got loads of swindon in the 60's and 70's films (as discovered by steve), but alsa theyre in the non recordable/grabable format of real media.

here they are......



fear not.....for a mac use Snapz pro



or for a pc use RM recorder


you should be able to grab the videos straight from the desktop to disk.........

matthew x

Wednesday 31 October 2007

19th century survey of swindon


found this on www.archive.org

its a scan of

Jefferies' land; a history of Swindon and its environs. Edited with notes by Grace Toplis from 1896.
its also contains some notes from desmond morris's grandfather........

here