Woooo! Absolutely beautiful!

Congrats! Very well done. Great eye for composition and nice rhythm--easy to watch.

Thanks Guys! ! ! !

I've been waiting to hear when it was going on the net . . Swiss is an amazing library . .. lots of angles to shoot .. .

G

Really Something To Graze On!

Very nice production, it seems to give a real feel for this unusual space.

and to think, i thought you were here just for the lively conversation!

Very nice Sir Grazie

Very nice Sir Grazie

Don't give him any ideas or Grazie will have us bowing to him :-)

All kidding aside, VERY nice job Grazie. You made what is obviously a beautiful place even more attractive. Keep up the good work.

Mike

Looks great.
A few comments if I may.
The 'vintage' footage at the beginning is perhaps just a little too 'vintage', I'd reduce the amount it jumps around by 50%.
Try to tie the visuals to the dialogue more and during the sequences of quick stills with dissolves between them tie visual elements together. For example if you've got a vertical 1/3rd right of frame have the next still with a vertical in the same spot.
Bob.

SHHHHH ,....please this is a library ! ; )
I thought is was great Grazie, I liked the composition too just as it was.
Btw did you do the music too? Acid? Fit the piece perfect for the feel of progression/transformation.
Dont supose they got all that $$ from overdue book charges.

Cheers !!!
Inspiring too, for something Im working on of completly different nature but you've sparked some great ideas.

Thanks for Sharing

Thanks again Guys . . . Bob, I hear you and understand the matching to the last shape . . epirb, no, not ACID this time, I'll send you a link to the company that does this music .. very open and honest sounds.

Mike and winrock thank you too . . yeah . . see, I DO listen too! Oh yes!

I'm off to bed to try and sleep! . ..

Grazie

Loved that quick focus shift to the toy in the children's library. Added just a little more polish. Well timed, great narration, great music. Congrats! Very eye-catching and kept me interested throughout. You've mentioned your graphic design background before and I could definitely see the expertise in the way many of your scenes were framed.

Fantastic!

Grazie, very clean and professional. Great eye, especially enjoyed the childrens' treasure island. Promo for sure. Who's your audience, what's the msg lingering in the background? Doin' similar, so curious. Darryl

Good stuff G - congrats

YES! Very well done. Bravo.

~jr

Thanks again . .

Grobsie, as the "piece" was used as visual evidence for a submission to a National competition for public buildings interiors, the original audience was a judging panel that was hoping to be able to make a decision from "all" the submissions from around the UK. This made the judges visit the "Swiss". So, in just that sense it did its job. However, it was also voted as the best to be shown at the Awards Dinner and will provide an opportunity to be also shown from the council's website and within the building of the library - looped - to provide evidential material on the "history" of the building.

So, in terms of creating a format appropriate for these mixed "audiences" was a neat challenge. Oh yes . . . .

Again, thanks guys,

Graham "Grazie" Bernard

Very nice piece of work, Grazie. Thanks for sharing it with us. The praises you and the library received for this work are very well deserved. The piece is obviously well thought out, well shot, very nicely edited and does a splendid job of showing off the building's structure, its "traffic" flow and, especially, its spaces.

Congratulations!

Jack

Hey my old matey! Great stuff!!

I've had the pleasure to see some more of Grazies work on DVD when I passed through London last year.

Nice to see some of this stuff "out in public".

Great stuff - thanks for sharing this one !

Rudi

Liam & Rudi . . thank you! Liam knows just how difficult it is for me to "come-out". My work is by necessity very much in the background, in the "global" video experience!

Paul, having now had something of a small "deluge" of "well-wished" emails from others, much has been made of the clarity of the audio and the appropriateness of where and what you hear within the places it is is needed.

Apart from saying I used a Senni66, fixed on a pole, the actual placing and timings was achieved thru Vegas and the snappy levels created by Excalibur's audio tools. Excalibur removes the drudgery of moving envelopes about - with just a few quick adjustments I can then experiment with change the items I wish. This means I can try out levels and then try a new set. I wanted to achieve - I think I did - the very intimate voice over, as if the chap was actually speaking to "you", quiet but clear - yes?

Paul, thanks for raising the question . .. apart from anything else, I can now point others to this thread to read what I did and what tools I used.

Bottom line here is that I'm starting to truly realise the freedom I have being both the cameraman AND editor on small scale tightly contrived video projects. Is it demanding? - Yup! Is it rewarding? You betcha! Would I have it any other way? . . Nope.

Grazie

Grazie, haven't been able to download the file yet, but expect it, like your artwork, to be great. Hopefully Comcast will fix their problem today....

Grazie -
Add me to the long list of admirers of your visual work of art - you've captured all the elements of the library in an honest, artistic manner and combined them in a very pleasing way. Great eye for unusual angles! Thanks for sharing.