Since mid May 2008 I am producing a weekly video with the actual news of the week, in the vain hope yesterdays news may be of interest in the future, or just a important reminder.
In this post I want to describe and document the technical background and changes throughout the productions of this weekly video, in reverse order.
2009
Email from YouTube
What did I do? Nipplegate in News Week 50! The YouTube censorship, from a country with the largest porn industry world-wide, hit me hard for this innocent News Week 50 video, disabeling it for vialoating "community guidelines".
Here the document of the offence:
Do you spot the difference? Yes, the nipples.....
Following this incident, a nipple-free version of News Week 50 has been posted on February 7th, 2009:
2008
In 2008 a total of 33 videos have been produced, from Week 20 to Week 52. Here a chart of the length of each film:
Version 3.1 production notes from Week 51-52 of 2008
Background sound has been temporarly changed for the Xmas season, to instrumental versions of Hallelujah (51) and a Piano solo of Silent Night (52).
Version 3.0 production notes from Week 48-50
This weekly video is now produced in High definition (HD), complying with YouTube specifications. Previous versions can be viewed in HQ (High Quality), by adding the comand &fmt=18 to the YouTube URL.
To view in HD, the best quality level, add the comand &fmt=22 to the YouTube URL. See the quality difference:
Version 2.4 production notes from Week 43-48
intro now more dynamic, with picture (43: poppies, 44: Big Ben in snow) or animated (45: US flag to commemorate Obama's election). Also in 45, a converted YouTube video was used in the end section instead of a movie trailer. This should be a exception, the focus remains on movie trailers.
Version 2.3 production notes from Week 42
while trailer clip starts, foreground image of Bleiglass and window turns dark and unsaturated, to imitate lights going out in cinema, concentrating attention to the movie
Version 2.2 production notes from Week 36-41
addition of a 8 sec closing sequence with credits & artwork of young Bleiglass
Version 2.1 production notes from Week 32-35
new dynamic clsoing, dropping the simple "see you next week" animation, now playing through the closing window a actual ~20sec movie trailer clip.
Version 2.0 production notes from Week 27-31
Dynamic view through the window, image picture zooms out, against window picture zoom in. In previous weeks this was relationship was static.
Version 1.3 production notes from Week 26/2008
A new background sound loop was created using Apple Garageband. In addition, the final title-text “see you next week” was further animated, it now zooms in.
Version 1.2 production notes from Week 25/2008
Still using Photoshop, the window design was cleaned up, it now looking more like a window and not like a picture hanging on a wall, lightning now appears being from top left and not from right side, identical for the red frame and dak background. The size is now filling a full 16:9 frame, and each picture does not need to be prepared in Photoshop anymore, they are now treated as 2 video layers in Final Cut.
Version 1.1 production notes from Week 24/2008
From week 24 onwards finally the new software was used: Final Cut Express 4.
and with the text generator LiveType, the start and end titles are now animated.
Version 1.0 - News Week 20-23/2008
For these first 4 releases I used the Apple iMovie Software. The window and each (!) news item was pre-build individually in Photoshop and the title was static.
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