For the reasons that are unknown to me, this took way too long and I am sorry for that.
I finally present you the Newgrounds London Meet IV video. A very short version of it though but then again this is all we do. Watch this, add about 12 extra hours to the video and that's the whole deal. Well, almost but still. We meet talk, drink, have fun while doing it. The highlight of this year's meet was the Karaoke bar! So go on and see how your favourite artists/users sing. For video specs and the making of process to those who are interested in, read below, otherwise this is it. Go watch. Sorry to those who haven't got enough video exposure or any exposure at all. There's always next year!
ps. Names in annotations are actually usernames so just type the username.newgrounds.com to check out each person's profile!
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Author comments:
There are various things I did for the first time with this. Shooting a documentary/report type of video, editing a documentary/report type of video, making subtitles, adding annotations. This was my first time and it shows. In my opinion, it is much harder than doing a directed video since you constantly have to be prepared for anything interesting, shooting it, planning your shot in real time, etc, etc. I learned stuff from this, of course. First and most important thing is that I haven't been talking to people as much as I needed to. I was mostly shooting everyone as a group and I haven't taken time to interact with individuals. Editing is a whole other thing. You have hours of material that you need to shrink to a couple of minutes. Same with music videos. Practice makes perfect. I'm new to this and I'm sure I'll get the hang of it as I got the hang of making movies. Also, my personal equipment is pretty weak and I'm doing the best I can with it.
I added subtitles just because YouTube has that option and since the sound is crappy at some points I figured that the viewer might not hear what someone is saying. Otherwise he can just turn subtitles off. So it's a win-win situation in any case. JPI, if you're reading this, you may noticed that I haven't subtitled your dialog with Paul, Kester and Mogly because honestly, I cannot understand what you said because of too many voices in the background. So feel free to tell me and I'll add it.
I wanted to add names of everyone with fancy effects but then again I let that to be an option with YouTube's Annotations. Good or bad decision? You tell me. Obviously bad if the video goes somewhere else outside of YouTube. It looks ugly though I gotta admit and who I tagged is mostly random. Sadly, I cannot tag just EVERYONE. Some users are tagged more than once because it's never sure if it's the same person. If someone wants to play with annotations some more I can give you the link for editing annotations.
Canon HV20 is the camera that was used.
omegared
lots of fun! I want in next year YAY!