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So I’m still not 100% sure if I want to be posting this but here goes nothing. Click on the video area below to begin loading the video (Be warned though it is 40mb).

Whilst watching you need to keep a few things in mind:

• We totally screwed the audio which is why it sucks.
• There is a fictional interview with Samy (played by myself). I did this pretty poorly (tired) and is in no way a reflection of the real Samy (because we all know he is a god). Unfortunately, it was a bit impossible to get in contact with him and even drag him over to Australia for a college assignment)
• We didn’t know the script well enough so you can clearly tell things are being read off the paper and off the computer screen (Samy interview)
• Things were very rushed to get it done. I would love the opportunity to go back and film it all again – properly.
• The assignment scored us somewhere around the 100% mark I’d say and we were credited (for a very student type amateur production which was basically last minute) very highly for our work.

“and ordered myself a burrito” – I will never live that one down.

So the assignment was due on Friday, 16th June and we managed to get it completed in time. I seem to have forgotten about it though – I had intentions of uploading the video however I’ve not had much spare time at the moment.

So this semester at College, we’ve had to produce a 10 minute documentary or other video as part of our assessment. In a group of three, we drafted a television show which is a take off of Australia’s “Today Tonight”, called “Today Tomorrow”. In the show we take a look at the safety (well – insecurities) of MySpace.

Last night we got around to shooting the studio shots with our presenter. We’ll be making use of the green screen to use a technique called chroma keying to replace the background with a shot of Sydney for the final product. The studio was constructed in a class room with the green screens, a three point lighting set up (a fourth was added to help remove shadows from the screen), the camera and laptop – to record/pass through audio.

A couple of photos from the night: