09.06.16
Due
to the eleven day upload gap between some of these videos, I've ended
up with six videos on my hands: Walking
Down Bobmar Road,
Walking
around a Campus Site of University of Toronto,
Gravity:
White Stars Taking Over The Galaxy,
Asphalt
8: The Test Continues,
Crescent
Path Night Video Test (Highly cringey!)
and #YoutubePartyIsOver
Explanation [slides and commentary].
That's a lot to talk about, so let's dive right into this!
I wanted to make a video of me walking down a
street, but wasn't quite sure which road
to choose. I wanted do an East
Torontonian neighbourhood, so when Bobmar Road caught my eye, I
decided that I was definitely going to film
that area, because of its name.
Seriously, it sounds so much like Bob Marley, which had me wondering
why they didn't just go with that, rather than some half-baked
spin-off of the reggae king's title. This lead to me making some lame
commentary about copyright, which obviously wasn't the case because
the man is dead, and there are millions of streets that get named
after people all the time. Whatever the case may be, it's most likely
the surname of one of the pioneers or residents that used to live in
that area. So, I was thinking that covering this road would take
somewhat long, but when I saw myself approaching Military Trail
sooner than expected, I knew that wasn't case, so to make up
for the shorter than expected street, I
went further up the road to film the next area of interest: a
campus site of the University of Toronto.
Even
though they are separate videos, they were done on the same day. I
was eager to film more areas
of interest within proximity,
so I went to this area while it was nice and quiet, to
take
advantage of it. Now, if you haven't read the video description, I
absolutely loathed my own heavy breathing to the point that I
grudgingly resorted to using some nice viola music that probably many
will hate! Ha ha haaaaaaaaaaaa! Well, I don't hate classical music,
but most probably do. Oh well. Walking around and filming the
premises was a
pretty interesting experience
for me, as I've never been here before, so I was able to see things
from a fresh perspective. The “venting is normal” sign was both
interesting and hilarious, which lead me
to making
the joke in the video after editing the footage. Of course, it's
important that you vent in a way that won't cause people to run in
serious fear, or else they'll view you as a roaring, unprofessional,
crazy wildebeest! Venting and jokes aside, it looks like this happens
to be one of the science centres for the University of Toronto, but
I'm honestly not 100% sure, because I've never been to any campus of
that school. In fact, before reading the signs, I almost thought it
was Centennial for some reason... How? Why? What? I don't know, but
as Torontonians know, Centennial is located at Ellesmere and
Morningside, not
Ellesmere
and Military Trail. The two are close, but if you read and pay
attention, you can't get them mixed up. Funny enough, I believe at
one point that
I did actually want to go to Centennial College in high school, but
decided against it likely due to something along the lines of it not
offering something I was interested in at the time, or possibly even
the fact that I was under the intention that it was a horrible
school. I don't even know! That was years back, so who knows for sure
what the
reason was.
Why
did I play this game? Because it's boring and interesting at the same
time; that's why. It's also something a little different, so while I
was looking through my gaming applications, I thought hey, why not?
The idea of just tapping the screen to mainly create white dots, will
probably cause some people to yawn themselves to sleep, but you have
to pull the menu down and play around with it a little to discover
all the possibilities.
I've discovered cool blue lasers, red stars, pausing functions,
scrolling, coding, sharing and more. Still, admittedly not terribly
exciting, but because I was also narrating the session for a YouTube
video, I had more fun that what some might actually experience. So
after creating red and white stars, I eventually got around to
reading more about the game, and discovering the Sphaghetti Monster,
who I proudly dissed, and then went onto “exploring” the planets
in our system. Speaking of that, I still find it strange that Pluto
has been dethroned of its planet status, just because it's apparently
“too small” to be planet. There may be more to it, but I'm no
astronomer, so I don't know the full scope of the situation.
Nonetheless, I view Mecury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn,
Uranus, Neptune and Pluto all as planets.
In
the 2nd
testing episode of Asphalt 8, I've raced with the Lamborghini Sesto
Elemento in French Guiana Reverse, the Middle Eastern Lykan
HyperSport in Westminster Bridge, and Tokyo with with the fierce
Ferrari LaFerrari. How were the results? Well, it's obvious from
watching the video: certainly not good, but at the same time I
wouldn't say disastrous either.
I mean sure, sometimes heavy hangups can cause your car to end up
into a wall or even drift the wrong way, which was exactly the case
for Tokyo twice.
Now, the season 8 race for the class A cars as we all know is
a very fun, but also a
challenging, demanding track due to the heavy traffic and sharps
turns that have to be
made. Despite the hangups, it's honestly the side oncoming traffic
that annoys me the most about this track. They're
so hard to dodge and they're
very annoying! Worse, it's very hard to run into them without
wrecking, so you're best bet is to use your vision, judgement and
reaction to deal with it. Traffic scenarios aside, Tokyo isn't bad
otherwise. Now for my experience with the application in French
Guiana: there where some moments of pretty long, frozen frames, but
that oddly didn't affect my runs too much. I think that I could've
done a better job at tackling the track, especially the part with the
highway ramps and bridges. Westminster Bridge had its moments, but
overall, it was probably the smoothest of the three to record with
ScreenCorder. I don't know if was because the track was short, lack
of heavy traffic or whatever the case may be. At the end of the video
I contemplated on whether or not I should continue using this
application. I stated that I would either do what
I feel is best, or possibly leave it up to feedback. I do really
appreciate being able to watch my native BlackBerry 10 applications
with sounds, so despite the lagging, hanging, and
frame freezing (whatever
you want to call it!)
I may likely continue to use it. Besides, for hangups that are
actually
long enough, I could always edit them it if I really wanted to. It
would also make it more work in audio area, since I'd have to remove
the spaces that are
occupied as silent lag.
Whoa,
why would you put “highly
cringey”
in the title you may ask? Isn't that going to cause people to steer
clear of it? Yes and no. You see, I feel it's just best to tell
people exactly what they can expect from the video title, which in
this case is an outdoors video of me testing my camera's night
settings, which also turned out to be horrible due to the intense
shakiness, pitch blackness at some points and –
oh,
my ever so lame commentary! For real though. I don't know why I kept
talking about how I can't see, spooking people, holding my head
up, watching the camera and so forth. These
topics are far from interesting, funny, educating or engaging.
I mean, as cringey as the video is from the lack of stability and
complete darkness sometimes, I'm sure if the commentary were better,
it'd at least make it not as
cringey as it was originally was,
or am I being a little over the top here? Whatever. Despite what I
say about the commentary, my real focus for the next time will
honestly be
keeping the camera steady, and holding it at eye level. That way,
I'll be able to produce a better night shoot. Of course, there are
several other technical things to keep in mind, but it helps to start
with basic things first as these things can be easily overlooked. So,
which mode turned out to be better? I honestly don't know... Ok, I
guess I'll say that night mode (surprise!) looks a little better, but
again, it would've helped if I kept the camera steady and at eye
level, so
that it could actually capture the street lights and the
surroundings
better. Now that's enough rambling here so it's time to talk about an
internet phenomenon
below: YouTube's new rules! Oh, goodie!
Well,
I already explained everything pretty damn well in the video, so I'll
just focus more so on why I made the video. As a
Twitter user, you have a section that displays
trending tweets and other areas of what you might be interested in.
Oftentimes, I don't really dig the trending hashtags, but when I saw
a Twitter user posting something about RIP YouTube, it caused me to
take a closer look at was going on, leading to the discovery of
YouTube's new rules..... Yikes! The hashtag exploded, several
headlines occurred, thousands of complaints were issued, so this
really triggered me to quickly put a video together while the hashtag
was hot. Now, this was originally supposed to be done with me
actually browsing the web while commenting and reading, but since
Screen Recorder decided to throw a fit that day, I just couldn't be
bothered with it.
ScreenCorder would've been great if it weren't for the sound issue
and the fact that it too, didn't feel like capturing more than a few
a minutes that day. *SIGH!* This then resorted to me
doing a recording of what I wanted to say, and then hastily drawing
slides to match my points. I was worried about audio syncing, but
with careful timing, effort and diligence, it came out great.
Demonetizing people's videos for the sake of kissing up to
advertisers is not cool, so they better change something before the
site takes a huge hit, which many are fearing is
what's going to happen,
but only time will tell.
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