Green Music in London

Welcome to Current community Eleni!
I lived in London three years before even the Chloro-fluoro-carbons (CFCs) were common knowledge among the Brits. It's great to see the public awareness reached such great heights!
I also like your camera work, your eye for detail and keen journalism! Good luck with this project, GL from me!

I had no idea--- thanks for making this!

Fantastic work! I love your eye, the way you look at things is fresh, cool and to the point. Great idea and good work tracking down something so unique. GL.

Great video, great concept, great story - but your audio levels are ALL OVER THE PLACE.

Your opening audio is squashed by the music being too loud, your audio in the studio owner segment is too low and echoey, and the interview with the friends of the Earth/activist group is too loud especially at the end where she's absolutley off the charts on my speakers (I had to pause the video and turn them down). You need to completely remix this, a thorough mixdown on all your segment levels is required to make them consistent throughout the entire piece. Bad audio makes a good piece seem bad to the viewer, and this one is no exception. Luckily your content is extremeley strong, or this would never had been Greenlit by me.

I'm greenlighting it based on it's content, which is excellent. When you get a chance please check out my latest pod. And welcome to the Current TV community! -zen

thanks zen - glad you liked the content. really liked the painted veil good work on that, and jesus camp which i'd seen a while back.

hmmm, the audio levels... had probs with a new wireless mic that i got, which only fed in the audio into one of my speakers. will try to remedy and remix when i get the chance.

cheers for the advice and GL! eleni

Ya sou Eleni,
I lived in Yorkshire country myself during my university days and I don't recall the populace being nearly this conscious of energy consumption. So this pod makes me happy all around to know that there is a ground level shift in perceptions. Your coverage of the gamut of green action is great as well. Keep up the good work!
Please feel free to give me feedback on my promo,"Leap off the Edge."
Talema!

Glad to help eleni, and thanks for your kind works about my work. Personally, I can't wait to see your next pod. This one seems destined for TV, it's a great story, well shot and has all the good elements a pod needs if you ask me.

For a remix of your audio, depending on your NLE you may want to do a 'touch" mixdown. That is a mixdown where you can manually raise and lower the levels of each track while simultaeously watching it in your NLE, and it retains your manual mixdown levels on each track as you play the video through. I do this all the time in Adobe Premiere Pro 1.5 when I have a single audio track with levels that jump up and down.

Just open the audio mixer and set the track dropdown type to "touch" on the track you are mixing. You can stop and restart the process at anytime and it will remember your previous touch mix. It's tedious, but effective.

You could also just make sure all 6 elements of the video (opening SOT, opening music, the studio music session, and the 3 interview SOTs) are each on their own audio track then mix it down with your NLE audio mixer to match them to the track with the best balance, which in this case I think is either the interview with the studio musicians or when they are playing music, I'm assuming you plugged into the studio mixing board for their music session, it sounds like you did.

Then just adjust those other 5 elements' levels to match the in-studio recording session, which has the best balanced audio.

That would be a good starting point for a remix of the audio. Either that, or the interview of the musicians. The audio was clean and very well balanced on either of those 2 elements.

-zen

Eleni,

Nice light touch. Easy-going tone on an otherwise serious piece. The strongest part of the piece is the interview at the recording studio. It uses the medium nicely. If I may offer a criticism, the cutaways, especially in the part at the office, seem a bit hit and miss. Some seem to relate to the voice-over, some do not. Other cut-aways are whimsical and it doesn't matter.

A pleasure to see something political done with an eye towards being accessible.

Great story , glad I know about it . I agree with previous commment , I think it works best in the studio . My attention got scattered by the delivery after that . Keep it up !

Congrats on the TV pick.

Shola

hi. realy good job.
BTW, what is your cam?

hey thanks all for your comments and advice. really excited this is going on tv!

my cam is a panasonic PV-GS300. it's a 3CCD, but very light and small so it's easy to carry with me all the time.

cheers, eleni

I can call 'em can't I? Congrats on TV pick, this story is a perfect match for Current TV's content. We need more stories of this caliber. Sorry I missed your comments on the audio being out on one speaker, just use "Fill left " or "Fill right" to correct that problem, then do a mixdown. Or let Current worry about that now. Heh! There's no better feeling than getting picked for air, and you made it in record time. -zen

great piece.

hey nice! congrats! I hope more people jump in on the renewable energies subject.

Great job! Glad to see this going to air. Looking forward to seeing more of your work!

Go Big Green~~ nice job~ .......also the sound is back in my piece~

good work. what u think of my promo?

Hi Eleni,

Nice vid. I'd like to chat to you about working with us. Can you drop me an email, please? It's adam@newconsumer.org.

Best, Adam, Newconsumer.com

Wanted to let you know that I re-edited my Pipes of Peace... let me know what you think now.
Your work is wonderful.

hey, this is brilliant. a great topic to touch on :)

Hey Eleni

Your film's got a good point. I really want to think of a reason to disagree with you - that London really isn't that green, however the more I think about it the more I realise I and my friends have really shifted lifestyle. I don't know if its out of choice or pressure - it's now compulsary to recycle kitchen waste where I live in Hackney - but the consequences of my lifestyle are increasingly on my mind.

I can't say I'm a full on environmentalist, but yeah, I think you're right - London has a slightly green tint to it these days.

I reckon that final dying note in the recording studio would make a better end to the piece. If you need the comments in the final political section, do these, then come back to the studio for the girl artist's comment then end on that music - that would be memorable. (Only IMO of course! :-)

Thank you Eleni. My experience is that purpose is everything in life. It is what I have devoted my life to. This piece is so useful to me and I trust to those who view it. In a relative universe, progress is perfection. Thanks for the perfection. GL from me. I am the subject in Shadow Boxer and Boxer pieces.

Hi Eleni,

Thanks for your GL and comments, yes I'm working on 2 PODs at the moment, 1 on an environmental issue. I'll be submitting them as part of the UK launch contest.

Hey i saw you on newconsumer good job, can anyone actually just visit the top? I saw those turbines when I went hang gliding in Norfolk.

interesting topic, well made. honorary GL. I'd be interested in your thoughts on my Sony V-Cam.

Once again a great piece Eleni. Especially the visuals at the end. My only suggestion would be to fix the audio levels but since this video is "being prepared for TV" I guess you are already working on that : o )