February 2013 - Progress Continues!

February came and as usual we had all sorts of interesting things going on. It was Ross's birthday on the 13th (Now 17 years old!) and we were unable to keep up our weekly upload stream, as Ross's iMac had to go into repair, and being a very intelligent person, leaving all of our filmed content on it. Nevertheless, he got it back before the months end and were able to catch our YouTube channel up. First off this month, we started with something we filmed well over a year ago - an extremely cheesy, horribly edited horror film!

We even used our old tape camera for that video! Anyway, moving on to more recent times...During our green screen session (the same day we filmed the Newsnight Spoof) we made a Teleshopping spoof,  with the same actors (Ross, Sam and Daron), basically of Daron selling a half eaten packet of crisps and Ross selling a vase with holes in it!

We think the green-screening chroma works fairly well in this - a few mistakes naturally, but usually the backgrounds look okay! Though in terms of content we may not have been completely up to speed, but we have had rather a lot of luck lately.

YouTube Partnership
That's right folks! Just before Spare Moment Studios 2nd Birthday, we got offered partnership with a company called AdRev. Over the next couple of weeks we'll be getting our banner sorted and using the resources provided to drive more viewers and hopefully get more subscribers, and thus allow us to make, more higher quality content.

Projects
Team Idiot is on the agenda - but this time properly - six episodes, each 20-25 minutes in length are in the planning, all professionally scripted and scheduled, rather than just Ross and Sam rambling on to Daron whilst holding a bunch of hand guns. Uploads will continue every other Tuesday.
With some recent trials completed, we may also be producing some kind of lego video at some point - we figured out our problems with stop motion (shaky camera, poor lighting mainly) and have decided to do something either Lego Star Wars type or perhaps Lego City.

We also now have a discussion forum! If you sign up to our website and visit the videos page (http://www.sparemomentstudios.com/videos) and scroll down, you will have access to discuss films/media/radio in our forum!

In the world of business, some new areas of opportunities has led us to try and be a little more artistic with our motion graphics and text. Here's a short/brief advertisement clip Ross did in Final Cut Pro. (Better, 3D ones will be done in Motion and Blender at some point too.)

Continuing On
Over the next couple of weeks we will be continuing to develop our online radio station "Radio Bicester", building relationships with local clients and starting some real advertising packages, which will also in some areas cross over into the Spare Moment Studios video production department.

Our videos next month include more spoofs, stop motion and all kinds of new things, as well as live radio shows up on Radio Bicester. Un-till next time, feel free to contact us!

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