Today was a good day. All the footage I shot the other day hasn’t been wasted - I have managed to cut together a first take of my video. Granted, it’s over a minute long but I’m relatively certain the minute requirement is flexible within reason.

I’ve still to find a suitable audio track to compliment the video but that will come with a little time and patience. I had been using tracks by Let’s Fighting Love but I think they are a bit too rocky/intense for the purposes of this video. Ashame as the drummer is one of my best friends and got excited at the prospect of his music being used. Sorry Graeme.

Will be working more on the video tomorrow, tonight must be spent catching up on some freelance as I am mega poor and working on my CV so I can permenantly remedy this poorness.

I spent the day in the Cairngorms on Sunday shooting some video with the lovely Emma, Jamie and Sam. I had a great day in the snow, the sun was blaring and, based on the tiny camera LCD, thought I had some pretty sweet shots.

I was wrong. Although a couple of the shots are really sweet the majority are overly shaky and unusable or out of focus. I put together a (very, VERY) quick cut and, honestly, felt sick after watching it - just too damn shaky.

It’s really taken the wind out of my sails, I really want (need) a powerful video to compliment my project, to tie everything together. I just don’t have that at the moment. Perhaps some clever editing will fix things but I’m not very good. I don’t have a vision you see. I have nothing to work towards. I DON’T HAVE A CLUE WHAT I’M DOING. So it means everything I try is trial and error, with a lot of error.

If I’d planned things a bit more then maybe it would have been worthwhile going up, but today I can’t help that although I had a brilliant time, I wasted a day by going up North.

I’m really beginning to freak out about how everything is going to come together, especially as we were planning out the Degree Show space - I, again, have no vision. I feel pathetic.

In slightly more positive news Martin Lisle (of SNO!zone) phoned me up today about the email I sent him regarding filming at the indoor slope. Think I may go and completely reshoot everything.

Today I got the entire unit togther (minus a camera casing due to some issues physically accessing the wiimote to turn it on, doh! - new case is tomorrow’s task) and actually had my first go at using the unit and seeing video from it’s point of view.

Ignoring the rubbish quality of the camera (still to decide if it’s worth investing in a more expensive one) I was somewhat dissappointed by the results. Jerkiness, slow response rate and inconsistent movement really brought the whole experience down.

This is an experience prototype so this failing is a big deal and must be changed. I’m unsure to what degree the shittiness (pardonez moi) is hardware or software related but some time is needed fine tuning, or starting over, the code.

I shot a quick video and merged it with a screencast of the webcam - I’ll post it later tonight as I’m on my iPhone at the moment.

I’m really beginning to lose faith in both the project and myself. sigh cry me a river…