It's such a pity that the people-behind-the-scenes, esp the production team themselves seldom get their due recognition and appreciation :(

So, here we are today, giving credit to and shedding light on the perspectives of our friends from the video team!

You might have already seen several productions by our homegrown NDPeeps@Youtube but can you recognise them and do you know what's going on their minds? Let's get started; Here is an interview with some of the team members:

Tell us more on what NDPeeps@Youtube is doing.

(looking at one another) Videoing?! (laughs)

Ok, maybe share with us on the different roles and responsibilities within Youtube.

Actually bulk of the work lies in the production of the video, it requires two stages namely filming and video-editing.

For the filming potion, we have four guys - one stationary angle videographer, two variable angles videographers and a photographer. Thereafter, the photographs & footages taken will proceed for video-editing.
The photos are converted to slideshows while stationary and variable angle footages are cropped and streamlined. Then, suitable parts are combined before being matched with music or voice-overs and ta-da! It's done! All that is left to do is to upload the video to Youtube.

Have you guyz any prior knowledge or gone though any form of training for this?

Aaa not really, we started off from scratch, training and perfecting our skills along the way. (Then team turned and glanced at Ronald) Also, we learnt alot from our IC especially during the begining when the respective platforms were first set up.

So what are some of the challenging moments you guys faced or fun incidents you have encountered?

When we first started off, our main concern was the layout and appearance. At that point of time, there was also a shortage of manpower as some of us had other commitments at hand. Now that these issues have been resolved, having sufficient manpower and a finalised layout template, we are left with the making of the videos and uploading them.

Fun incident... Sometimes when we are taking videos, someone may suddenly appear at the line of sight of the videoing, blocking a portion of the footage. We will not say this is fun, but rather, a little irritating haha. That is where having more than one angle for video-taking comes in handy! Patching uninterrupted bits of footages of our stationary and variable angles filming does the trick!

But, unfortunate coincidences do occur when a person just nice just happen to just appear to block ALL angles at the same time! (sigh sigh)

Any last comments? Or any thing you desperately want to shout out to the Singaporeans out there?

(laugh) No lah, nothing desperate lah! Just HAPPY BIRTHDAY S'PORE!! Singaporeans out there should actively join in the fun and spread the spirit of celebration!!!
Personal thoughts: Video editing is a long and exhaustive process. So thank these people for those wonderful videos you're watching on NDPeeps!

4 comments:

Way to go people! :-)

June 29, 2009 at 10:29 PM  

Yea, gd job!

June 30, 2009 at 3:26 PM  

=)

July 1, 2009 at 6:35 PM  

shuai sia

July 1, 2009 at 6:50 PM  

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