BC2003 - Bath Spa Media Event - my perspective

We hosted an event today for a group of Students from the City of Bath College. The event was planned over the last 2 months and the team divided into 2 groups to run activities in the Gatehouse and Newton g08... or as we dubbed 'the fun room' !
I was put in charge of the fun room activities and was Technical lead & main presenter for the room. The idea was to run an interactive demo of a green screen 'News style' broadcast, get the students involved and get some hands on with the kit.
We rehearsed the setup but one the eve of the event we decided to use vision mixing software on a laptop instead of a hardware mixer, because we felt this gave a more interesting result on the screen. In hindsight this caused us issues because instead of being comfortable with the set up we were still addressing issues when the delegates arrived in the room 15 minutes ahead of schedule. So we had to think on our feet and run with what we had, doing our best to get the audience involved as much as possible.
It was also difficult getting volunteers - on reflection I would have picked people and directed them to go on camera or lights rather than ask for people to come forward.

All in all it went well and we managed to run 2 successful demos with the delegates involved - there's much more I would do better if we did this again - hopefully not to soon though !

Hill Briggs podcast

Here's a video podcast that I produced for my mate Hill Briggs. He's just finished recording & producing his 2nd Solo Album which is in the Jazz/Soul/Funk/fusion vein.




Hill has worked with Mick Taylor (ex. Rolling Stones), Sam Brown (played keyboards on the no.1 single 'stop') and has played keys & toured with many well known acts.

The video was a good exercise to make - there are a few minor points we can improve on - and now that the name of the album has changed we can put them into the remake !

A short film on Health & Safety - starring Balve !

We were asked to storyboard an idea that could tell a story in 3 shots then make it into a short film - here's my effort featuring the comic talents of Balve !


As the idea was in the slapstick vein I decided to make it look and feel like a Silent Movie and sourced some royalty free music to set the right mood - I also speeded the footage up to make it look more comic and added comedy sound effects - hope you like it.

What if ......?

Disaster movie premise

what if ......?

the Banking crisis spread and the Electronic Banking systems failed, nobody could pay for anything and everything started to unravel.......

Society revolves around trust stacked on trust in computer systems and electronic money .... if an evil mastermind disrupted the way we pay for things Society would soon break down into chaos and the world would be held to ransom .....

Bath Farmers Market

I wandered along to Bath Farmers Market and came out with some great interviews !







The Stallholders were incredibly friendly & helpful and more than happy to talk on Camera about the goods they sell - unfortunately I had to cut it right down into a minute but we will be back to make some more promo's !

Genre M@sh Ups

For our genre Mash up we took Forrest Gump & Dawn of the Dead to create

"Day of the Gump" .......Zombie is as Zombie does.....Life is like a box of decaying limbs.... etc...etc..etc....

Horror \ Comedy

Pitch ;

A simpleton from childhood to fully grown zombiedom, meeting historical figures through sheer chance, eating them and changing the course of history, finds redemption through the son he never knew he had.

6 word story

Here's my 6 word story ;

Cleaner Wanted ; Quiet, discreet, not squeamish.