It’s an original mockup of a radio broadcast, and a tribute to Classic 21 (ex “Radio 21″), the (best) Belgian radio station we used to listen to as teenagers, and still do.

Footage used to produce this video is public domain material found at archive.org. If you’re curious, the detailed list of all sources is available in the credits, at the end of the video.

As for my previous project, I have to warn you that it may not look as funny as for French-speaking audience. That being said, here is the final result:

The challenge of this project was to have video of people speaking in sync with the audio. I suffered a lot trying to make it as convincing as possible. If the final result is far from perfect, I find it to be believable enough for the amount of time I invested in.

As for the tools used to produce this video, I edited it in November with a development version of Kdenlive, under an Ubuntu 11.10. As usual, here is a screenshot of my timeline for reference:

The project is using Kdenlive’s “NTSC 29.97 fps” profile, which produce a 720×486 pixels stream with a pixel aspect ratio of 8/9 and a display aspect ratio of 4/3. I choose this profile as it was the closest to the original videos I downloaded from archive.org.

I composed the credits and title card in Gimp, and tried to mimic the style of that period. This mean approximative composition and abuse of typography:

To enhance the effect, I blurred everything and separated the text blocks in several layers. I then applied to each of them some random movements to add a parallax effect, thus getting closer to the look and feel produced by the imprecise optical process used in the early days of movie making.

This was shot in 1080p at 25 fps (to reduce light flickering) without any stabilization device. I may have use my LCD ViewFinder but I have no clear memory of this. Shutter speed was 1/50 and ISO set to auto.

I’m shooting video with my 7D for 7 months now and I think that’s the first time one of my shot is made public. That’s quite depressing as I still have tons of raw video to edit for several projects, but can’t go ahead because of a bad MacBook Pro…

This video was taken during the biggest Cool Cavemen’s concert in 2009. We were playing at Gayant Expo (“largest french venue in the north of Paris” as they said in their commercial leaflets…). It was April 17th, during Cartel des Mines, a student festival organized by a group of engineering schools.

As the whole concert was filmed, I plan to release a new song every one or two weeks. I can’t promise a regular release cycle as I edit videos along the way. And of course, it also depends on my available free time…

By the way, this post also mark the opening of a section dedicated to my video projects. Currently it’s quite empty and brief, but I hope to populate it with more substantial stuff soon…