Do you remember how it was when we came of age?

Timeline: built.
Color correction: following.
Sound boosting: also to follow.
Roughcut: Above.

This is pretty much a lo-fi signpost of how the final piece could and will flow.

Comments welcome.

We're back.

Bad news: The MCOMMS network seems to have died a death.

 Good news: All the work I intend to use has been backed up both in digital and hard copy.

 More interviews lay ahead. A chance conversation has lead to further developments in that sphere. We will be beginning the editing process, give or take within the next week and a bit.

 Excitement abounds.

Well, well, you look familiar...

Four interviews in the last two weeks done and dusted. 2 today, and 2 last week. My thanks to Sinead Lynch, Mike McGrath-Bryan and Steve Hunt.

Expect them on Youtube at some point in the near future.

There are more to come.

The way things are going, the editing process is not too far off on the horizon.

Things are starting to get exciting.

Roughcut number 1.

Had to bump this down in size in Imovie seeing as the original was a whopping 6.7 gb in size.

Basically, this is the first rough cut I've done so far of the final piece. Its about 15 minutes in length, which is pretty much the amount of time you need to preheat your oven before you throw on your dinner.

It's fairly lo-fi, admittedly, but it'll give you a bit of a heads up to where we are and where we're going.

Possible intro to the final documentary. I stress the word possible because there's a wide variety of stuff that I'll be getting in the next couple of weeks, but it'll be along similar lines.

Bit of a homage to PBS shows like "McNeil/Lehrer Hour" and "Innovation" from the late 80s/early 90s...incidentally classic PBS documentaries or study programmes rank among some of my favourite online watching so the style homage was quite deliberate...especially down to the synthesizer based music in the background.

Soundtrack - intro theme.

Click here - Words without stories (intro theme)

"Intro music to my final year project documentary.

The story, basically seeing as the documentary is dealing with conversational breakdowns, I dubbed my own voice saying a variety of different things in English, French, Afrikaans, Japanese and Spanish with the voices of a few people who were good enough to send me sounbclips, namely Eddie "Dreth" Rodriguez in Puerto Rico, Mike Haralambakis in Cork and Sinead Lynch in Dublin in order to try and create an overwhelming and claustrophobic background of people talking about a whole bunch of nothing until it reaches a critical point, hence the aggrieved scream of "shut up" at the end.

The music itself in the background was kind of thrown together in about an hour or so, and it isn't really all that important although its pleasant enough, all the same.

Have at it and tell me if you think it accurately gets the point across."

Doing more soundtrack work as the weeks go on for different segments where needs be.

Updates.

Test filming and editing begins on Wednesday afternoon.

This is basically a test exercise to get across my familiarity with editing suites and with filming practises.

Not in any way going to be indicative of the final piece or the prototype, but if any of the footage is useful, I may use parts of it as a trailer.

I have a lot of work to do on the technical side before I burden myself upon other people with a camera.

Buckle up, folks, this journey's about to get bumpy but we'll be going places.