Whilst down at SD Falconry, I had 1+1/2 hours to kill, waiting for a BT engineer to arrive. So, I decided to take the opportunity and go for a walk around the lake at their Warwickshire premises. I had my camera in my pocket, and was glad I did. A Lunchtime Walk from Paul Hadley [...]
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A lunchtime walk
Posted: 6th April 2011 by Paul Hadley in MultimediaTags: falconry, Panasonic HDC TM-700
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Panasonic HDC-TM700 Initial Experiments
Posted: 7th February 2011 by Paul Hadley in MultimediaTags: camcorder, falconry, HDC-TM700, Panasonic
I’ve still got my old camcorders, but finance has allowed me to upgrade to full HD video recording now. I’ve recently purchased a Panasonic HDC-TM700 camcorder (from Simply Electronics – the cheapest place I found for this product on the www if you’re looking for something similar) and have been out and about having a [...]
New project
Posted: 21st November 2010 by Paul Hadley in Multimedia, UncategorizedTags: falconry, pest control
I know, I know… where’s the new layout then? Ok, I’ve been busy, so that has taken a back seat, but soon, I promise. A few months ago, I bumped into Steve and Debbie from SD Pest Control in my local shopping centre. Pest control isn’t normally my kind of interest, but they do things [...]
… exactly what it is that I do. There’s some info on the About page that describes what pays the bills. However, sometimes at weekends I get the chance to let my hair down, and get downright and dirty with motorsport activities that involve multimedia, video, racing technology, radio and petrol fumes. One regular highlight [...]
A quick lesson for those thinking of studying 3 years at university to become a tv news reporter. Give up. Give up now. Here’s all you need to know, courtesy of Charlie Brooker.
I give up – throw the towel in – resign – chicken out. Call it what you will. I was thinking about investigating how computer generated graphics work in a video context, in order to try to enhance some very basic animation, so ran a search to see what sort of examples were available, just [...]
There’s nothing like a tight deadline…
Posted: 9th January 2010 by Paul Hadley in MultimediaTags: cameras, jib, live, logistics, production, stage, TV
Live TV. Stage Production Demo from Paul Hadley on Vimeo. As part of the usual European Tour when promoting singles, artists will go from national TV station, to national TV station, performing the same song time after time. My involvement in this year 2000 tour was stage design coordinator, technical specification & set up consultant, [...]
Super-widescreen Projection
Posted: 8th January 2010 by Paul Hadley in MultimediaTags: anamorphic, corporate, graphics, large, Lowry, photoshop, powerpoint, projection, satellite, video, widescreen
Amazing what you can do with a bit of applied knowledge. This short video shows the stage of the Lowry Arts Centre in Manchester- the screen and corporate stage set is a temporary 1-day installation, for an event I produced and coordinated for the British Council of Shopping Centres, back in 1999. The video itself [...]
Here’s a shot of what the car looks like: http://www.davidsimonhall.com/photo_1109333.html .