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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!

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.

Updated: 02/27/09 9:58 PM Log in to comment! | Share this!

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27 Comments

Feb. 27, 2009 | 10:10 PM omegared says:

lots of fun! I want in next year YAY!

Feb. 27, 2009 | 10:45 PM deevvon says:

Good work dude.

Feb. 27, 2009 | 11:06 PM NegativeONE says:

Y'ain't gotta apologize for the time - it was well worth the wait. Did a really good job of putting this together and I appreciate it. Didn't drag at any point, got a word in from a fair amount of people. Lots of laughs, good memories here.

Feb. 28, 2009 | 10:10 AM luka responds:

Aw, thanks! :D

Feb. 27, 2009 | 11:07 PM Mystery-Moon-Pie-Aud says:

Why did I miss this?!

Feb. 27, 2009 | 11:14 PM MindChamber says:

haha sweet my hero NoGFish was on there. Nice Job Luca. excellently done. mind if I pick your brain for some video tips one of these days?

Feb. 28, 2009 | 10:11 AM luka responds:

Yeah, sure! And thanks.

Updated: Feb. 28, 2009, 10:11 AM

Feb. 27, 2009 | 11:17 PM jmtb02 says:

Lovely video! Your YouTube annotating was much appreciated.

Feb. 28, 2009 | 10:12 AM luka responds:

I thought it might be in a way to people but then again, you can turn it off anytime. Thanks.

Feb. 27, 2009 | 11:19 PM Mogly says:

Hey man. Great vid. Fun to watch and not all that embarrasing, although I'm sure it coulda been :)

good job mate.

Feb. 27, 2009 | 11:39 PM sucho says:

TheHappySheep sounds largely psychotic in the beginning. almost as if he's humouring while placing contacts, and then will proceed to kill, clean and eat your liver afterwards. you know. once he can see.

Feb. 28, 2009 | 10:13 AM luka responds:

I laughed out loud. Good point. :)

Feb. 27, 2009 | 11:40 PM mongoid says:

Awesome awesome awesome! I wish I was there.

:-D

Feb. 28, 2009 | 12:16 AM Goonie says:

I wish I was there. :/

Feb. 28, 2009 | 7:44 AM WolfBlitz2 says:

what a way to end the london meet with a bum coming in

Mar. 2, 2009 | 6:57 PM Nogfish says:

That was awesome

great editing!

Mar. 2, 2009 | 7:18 PM Luis says:

yea this was great, i think leaving it crude feels better. It reflects the meet itself. We go in without a real agenda we just tell people to show up not really knowin who all will show and somehow it works. I think making it overly polished would have been weird. Thanks for capturing an awesome meet

Mar. 2, 2009 | 8:03 PM AlmightyHans says:

haha! wow, that was incredibly well put together. I didn't even realize I was checking Tom's ass so thoroughly. I guess film really does show you another perspective of things.

Mar. 3, 2009 | 12:19 PM EviLDoG says:

Haha great job! I was smiling throughout the whole thing :)

Mar. 3, 2009 | 1:38 PM BananaBreadMuffin says:

Great shit, love the video. Great ending with the tramp :D

Mar. 3, 2009 | 1:41 PM Scuzzfest says:

I mknow i said "Tom Fulps stolen all our thunder" "We don't need to go say hi to Tom Fulp"
Fuck knows what everyone else said haha.

Good vid Luka, great job. :) My only suggestion is what you said, more one to one talkies would be cool, but then the vid might drag out a bit.

Mar. 3, 2009 | 2:57 PM EyeLovePoozy says:

Kudos and props to you Luka. That vid had an awesome feel to it and I was sporting a shit eating grin the whole time I was watching it.

Mar. 3, 2009 | 8:49 PM TheHappySheep says:

Totally awesome. Well worth the wait. I have watched this too many times now. I love the way I look at the camera dead on in the intro.
Hooray for AE!

Mar. 3, 2009 | 9:03 PM BobbaQ says:

LOL at Poozy and Toms songs. I so have to come to the next one :)

Mar. 3, 2009 | 10:05 PM liaaaam says:

Fantastic! Well done, very good job on the video.

Really brought back memories (I know it was only 2 months ago but still), it was an awesome meet.

Mar. 4, 2009 | 12:29 AM SamIam says:

That was awesome, great video!

Mar. 4, 2009 | 11:54 AM tiquandodo says:

Lol at the Hobo

Mar. 4, 2009 | 10:55 PM BlueHippo says:

Nicely captured and put together. Good times for everyone, even lame people like me who didn't attend :)

Mar. 5, 2009 | 6:48 AM Whirlguy says:

I lol'd so fucking hard when I saw Poozy singing the chocolate salty balls song. Damn haha! Some people sung suprisingly well, especially TimFrommeyer. It looks like it was so much fun, I really need to go there next year! (:

Mar. 15, 2009 | 12:28 PM Peglay says:

haha sweet, looks like u guys had a great time!

Mar. 15, 2009 | 2:41 PM barbiegoesbad says:

I'm so sad there won't be an Amsterdam video :(