Thursday, 29 May 2008

Researching the Group Project (Here we go again...)

So it's time for a bigger project, all new responsibilities, and I definitely decided to take this one easy. Our individual projects were to be 3-5mins long and could be a documentary or instructional video.

My original plan was to document the trials and tribulations of my friend Balve as he attempted to set up a radio station at Bath Spa University. A documentary that would involve interviews with several members of the faculty, student union and the members of URB Radio at Bath University. I was curious to investigate why exactly Spa couldn't didn't have a radio station but Bath University did. A bold project that would have never fit into a 3minute video.

The idea I ended up running with was to do an instructional video on how to DJ. Earlier in the year Balve and I had attended a How to DJ workshop held by the Bath Spa events DJ Chris Bibby (aka Mister Bibby). I emailed him a few weeks before the deadline asking him if he was interested and he (luckily) replied saying he'd be happy to help.

After the DJ Workshop I searched the web and found a series of How to DJ Hip Hop videos by DJ Colione. The videos I'd seen all used the same fixed angle but I wanted to use different angles in my video and make it professional looking.

Searching for How to DJ on Youtube leads you to a lot of videos of people taping themselves DJing but not actually explaining anything about the process. This was the only video I could find that had some explanation involved:

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