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post 700 -- finally! thought i'd never make it.

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The visual trailer was my idea - it was inspired by those found on the Tomorrow People DVDs for the BFP audio CDs.

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albeit one which was decided upon when i mentioned that the doco was exactly 8'30" long, at which point matt thought it would be a nice idea to stick a visual trailer on the end and thus bring it to 10' exactly. which the master copy is, to the frame.

and i have to say, it was a nice idea. i had a lot of fun cutting the trailer together, and i like that i was able to open it with synced up moving footage.

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Oh, and one thing I should point out is that we've improved and refined our recording techniques since this doco.

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well, since the doco was filmed. it was only edited a few weeks ago, and we've obviously not improved too much since then.

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Yeah, it was a little shorter than I was hoping for, but you can only do so much with available footage.

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if i may speak on behalf of our documentarian, kathryn fallon, a couple of factors (no pun intended) stood in the way of a longer piece. the first was the cramped environment, which we were using for the first time, which didn't allow for much in the way of decent coverage. (before anyone shouts that we should've had an efficient first 1.d. or some other completely irrelevant guff, it was a fly on the wall piece and it was pretty counterproductive to set up the entire recording room on an earlier day just so the camera operator could have a quick look.) secondly, we were trying to run a very tight ship that day, so there wasn't much room for a lot beyond actually recording scenes. third, i think kath's arm got very tired by about the halfway point, as there wasn't really anywhere to set up conveniently in the room.

it's worth noting that we got a lot of after party material, which would've been an excellent representation of the social side of btr, but unfortunately the radio was on and we can't afford to clear the use of any britney spears songs, nor would we want to hand any obscene amounts of money over to her representatives.

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A - Locate the MPEG-1 master copy
B - Encode it as a DivX file (which will be 2-3 hours of work)
Once those two criteria have been met, I will be releasing it. I hope to find the CD-R with the file on it at some stage today, and I will encode the file overnight this week while I sleep.

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i hope you find it, because the master you have, and which has always been available in the past, is somewhat different from the master i've kept. (software glitches, unfortunately.) mind you, if you need another master run off, i can happily post one up, and at least it'll have an actual copyright logo on it instead of a "c" in parentheses.

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Actually, from what I understand, we could have easily used the footage with the radio on in the background, given the non-profit educational nature of the programme itself. I think it's only when any kind of profit or request for money is being made that you have to actually clear any copyrights.

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oh -- wish i'd known that at the time. never mind, we'll know next time.