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Air Force Investigating Outage Of Classified Computer System At Key Drone Base

The outage, discovered by BuzzFeed News, preceded a series of high profile disasters overseas in September. US officials will not say if there is a connection. “The investigation into the issue is ...

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Mastery Journey Post - Strategic Internet Public Relations

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2005

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Colour Correcting

Just something I think I should let anyone who does anything similar to what I do in terms of producing video;

Colour correct. Always always always colour correct.

Colour correction easily saved my project from looking like something a 5 year old slapped together with a handy-cam. There are scenes in my video where the lighting was so dark you couldn't make out faces, the lights in the room would make the interviewee actually look ill and some lights just blue the shit out of everything. By colour correcting these scenes they look perfect now.

For example, in my video ( https://vimeo.com/61957603 ) you'll see a meeting room at 1:35. Looks nice and bright, doesn't it? That has been colour corrected like there was tomorrow the lighting was so bad. You couldn't tell where that coffee was bought from it was so dark.

Remember kids; colour correcting is that essential tool to make everything you do look a thousand times better, for realz.

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This is it, this is my very first video ever. I know there's minor issues here and there but they couldn't be fixed in post (or I didn't have the skill to) but I am content with it. 

Hopefully, the first of many.

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Why this project anyway?

While I wait for my video to upload to Vimeo, which may be another year or so at this stage, I thought I should discuss the reason why I chose this project. Are you sitting comfortably?

Well, originally I was making a short film about an anti-hero who goes out to kill someone. But as I explained ages ago, the whole thing fell apart for various reasons, reasons I also share some of the blame for, and I had to make the choice between soldiering on through or ditching it. Unfortunately, it broke my heart to make such a decision, my grade comes first so I pulled the plug and went for my backup plan, a short documentary on the station manager for Pure FM.

I am a big part of Pure FM, both as presenter and part of the Committee of the station and I am very enthusiastic about student radio. My course is 'Television and Broadcasting' so I made a video about radio, I couldn't make a more relevant artefact if I tried.

Easy access to studio's which could be filmed in regardless of weather/time of day were a big part of the reason for doing this project and the station manager also happens to be on the same course as me so our timetables worked perfectly together in terms of filming. The recording equipment in the radio studio's would also be perfect for getting superior audio compared to what any of the microphones that attach to the camera could do so that was also a bonus!

Last but not least, simply having an interest for broadcasting was a big factor. I'm not going to make something I don't have any interest in, that'd just be stupid. I love television and radio so, I made a video about radio. It is legitimately as simple as that. I had fun doing all the filming, nothing about it was ever boring and it was just a nice time in general.

Stressful as all flaming fuck. But fun.

That's pretty much my reasoning. As I said before, it really is as simple as that. It's relevant to my course, it's something that interests me and it's practical in terms of filming. 

Simples.

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It's uploading

So close.

So damn close.

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This is the song I went with as the music to accompany my documentary, it runs for the whole length, quietening for talky bits and coming full volume to fill up the quiet bits. It sounds quite nice and flows really well, or at least that's what I have convinced myself of.