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02.22.17
Five videos! Would
have been six, but I'll explain that part
a little later. Wow! Why so many videos?! Because there was a lot to
see and capture during my
recent
trips in Toronto and Oshawa, so let's discuss the following: Saint
John Paul II Catholic Secondary School: Walk around and commentary,
Military
Trail Public School: Walk around and commentary, College
Park Seventh-day Adventist Church & Canadian Headquarters
Seventh-Day Adventist Church, Ontario
Conference of the Seventh-day Adventist Church: Blue Building, and
Kingsway
College Drive Off-road Forest Exploration. Mighty
goodness! That's a lot of long titles going on there, and equal
amounts of coverage and photos were taken. Let's dive into this
going with the usual theme of chatting
about
the videos
that were short first.
So remember from
the last entry, February 16, 2017 Uploads,
in the Rodda Boulevard part where I mentioned that there was supposed
to be a plan A done that day, but then went with plan B, which ended
up being Rodda? Well, this was it: this high school. Yeah. So why
exactly didn't I shoot SJP that day? Because it looked like there was
some “big(?)” event going on during that day, so the grounds
weren't quiet and vacant as I'd like them to be. Be of course, I did
not want to go home with nothing, so I decided to film a
neighbourhood. This time, the grounds were vacant which allowed me to
finally get this video done in peace and quiet!
Ah, it was so satisfying! This high school had a lot of interesting
corners, marks and attributes to it, that made it so great to film
and photograph. I didn't film the track, because I didn't know where
it was during filming, but by the time I went around to photograph
the
school,
I realized that it was mostly covered in snow and slush! That's also
where I figured out that it and it's neighbour, Military Trail Public School, have the Ellesmere Ravine behind them. Interesting! Speaking
of Military Trail, I should go ahead and discuss it.
You know what's
funny? Since I was approaching this area westbound, this means that I
initially passed this school first, but yet I decided to film Saint
John Paul first. Why? Because it was the one that had me itching more
to film it. That's why. Ok, that's lame so let's get into some
details here! As you've heard me remark in the video, I really
enjoyed filming this school. I looked the looks of it, it's
surroundings, and just many things about it. For that reason, I even
went ahead and said that it was the most interesting elementary
school I've filmed to date. Nice work, Military Trail, but there's
more elementary schools
to discover out there that may be better looking than you! So like
the other video, there were also a fair bit of complaints about the
excessive snow, slush and inappropriate shoes for the conditions, but
I did appreciate the mild winter weather that day. “So what
additional things happened behind the scenes, during, before or
after?” you might be wondering. Well, Before doing this, I believe
my phone shut off from the cold, but don't worry, I won't make this
another one of those long elaborate complaints and analyzations about
why my phone shuts off outdoors so much. What I should say, is that
I've actually
executed a solution in one of the
more recent videos. Will elaborate more on that when I get to it. So,
I guess there's nothing more I have to say about Military Trail
Public School, so I shall proceed with the next heading.
According to Word,
there are 94 characters in that mighty long title. Believable, isn't
it? So this area I went to in
Oshawa, appears to be the “Great Mighty Seventh-Day Adventist”
strip. Seriously, you have a church in this area, two headquarter
buildings, a college, a store, a distribution press, a greenhouse and
many other buildings, all pertained to the Seventh-Day Adventist
church. Wow. Impressive. As a result, I even nicknamed this
expedition “The Great Oshawa Christian Quest” in the “Dead”
Kingsway College video, but I'll talk
about that specific entry a little later. So! The video I made covers
both the College Park Church and one of the buildings for the
headquarters. Why did I do this? Should probably be kind of obvious,
especially if you're a YouTuber yourself, or if you just know me
be now. I did not quite feel like putting down the camera after
filming the church, and because the site was so close, I crossed the
road to capture it. College Park Church was an interesting site, in
that the building itself was fun to go around because of its hilly,
busy surroundings. It's also pretty large, so that too was a plus.
Because I couldn’t tell if the brown headquarters building was
completely closed or not, I had to film it with caution to avoid
looking unnecessarily creepy. I successfully captured and
photographed it.
Yes. I sound like such a bad man or a spy based on the way I'm
talking here, giggity! Anyways, I loved all those provincial flags in
front of
it. It makes it look so proud and patriotic, but you know? There's
more! Let's discuss the other part
of the headquarters which happens to be much larger and bluer!
After doing the
church and the brown headquarters site, this one was next! Boy oh
boy, does it look impressive and proud! Big, blue, lots of glass, and
it's ever so shiny. This site is clearly the flagship headquarter for
the Seventh-Day Adventist church, but as for the other smaller, brown
building, I honestly have no idea what purpose it serves. One thing's
certain, is that my purpose for this trip was to film and photograph
the great, blue, holy building. It went great! The weather wasn't
warm, but it wasn't super cold either, and there was plenty of
sunshine. After this shooting
this video, the next great and unfortunate segment took place. Read
on below to get the scoop.
The Dead Video of
The Great College Park Drive & Clarence Bisential Drive
Exploration
In this video, I
initially slated to film just Kingsway College, but after seeing how
“small” it was, it was quickly covered. I did not feel like
dropping the camera, so I wandered around the area. It was then, that
I soon discovered that there were TONS to see! So many paths, bushes,
unfamiliar territory and roads! I wandered over to a burnt looking
auditorium, went
up the road to some rustic, ancient-looking building that looked as
though it had been around from the early 1900s, walked through lots
of snow, many paths, ended up seeing the Beuna Vista Hall, an
exercising complex, the Adventist Book Centre, and what else? Not
sure if I'm missing anything else, but you can tell that I definitely
saw a lot, and wandered into some very interesting areas. This
was indeed an interesting,
historical, modern, wild area all in
one. When I finally returned to a
more familiar part of Kingsway College Drive, I was getting very
close to ending the video, but wanted to end it in the same area
where I filmed Snow, pellets and Wind from last
year. Shortly after arriving in front of the wooded area, a message
shows up stating “Could not record video” What?! What exactly was
that supposed to mean?! Did I seriously
just lose almost 40 minutes of footage?! I quickly looked into my
videos folder to find it, but it was not there. I looked into file
manager and the file was there, but it could not be played… I was
very disappointed. A 35 minute video, and the system for some reason
couldn't catch it? What gives? Was it the memory card to blame? The
formatting? The operating
system? Who knows! Because the file exists, it's not truly
lost, but because it cannot be played due to a “missing codec”
caused from MP4 corruption, it has classifies as “dead” in my
books. There are expensive tools out there that claim they can fix
MP4 files, but aside from those, what are my other options? I hate to
have one of these
conversations about this again, but this time, a 35 minute video is
pretty serious business. Admittedly, I haven't spent much time
looking into other alternatives
this year, after the 1st
original dead West Hill Video, because I thought “It was only the
temperature that this caused this
incidence, so I won't see temperature related problems
again if I make the proper precautions” True. For this trip I
finally got around to tethering the phone with a portable pack and –
viola! No shut-offs and
big, red, empty battery icons showed up! Unfortunately, I just had to
be struck with something else, as soon as I find a solution for one
problem. Great. Perhaps I should just update the device, or format
the card, and see if that helps for this weird size problem. Due to
the disappointment, I went ahead and filmed Kingsway College Drive Off-road Forest Exploration,
to make up for this loss.
So as you know by
now, this is a make up video done after discovering that the Kingsway
tour video's MP4 has gone corrupt. Here, I talk about the situation
and the reasons why I made this very video. I went down into the
forested part and walked around. Not a ton of exciting things to do
or see down here, but it was still kind of fun to
trek through the woods of Kingsway.
It feels like I've
this said
too many times, but I seriously need to do proper research on this
MP4 issue. I know there's a reliable, free solution out there, but
where is it? Does it really exist? Or is it going to have to come at
a cost? Who knows. I've posted a picture from the tour on my
Instagram page, where I asked about how you can fix broken MP4 files.
To date, no replies, but one
like. Didn't really expect to see any advice, you never know until
you try… MP4 problems aside, I really liked how the videos came
out. In comparison to the blurry
Rodda video, these videos have
came out so much sharper and crisper, all thanks to the HDR setting.
Wow. Who knew it could make that much of a difference? Stability has
not been the best, but it certainly wasn't the worse either, as I've
really tried to concentrate on the camera still while moving. What's
in store for the next batch of uploads? Hard to say for certainty,
because I've been saying for a while that I've been wanting to do
some commentaries and gaming videos for a while, yet haven't gotten
around to it. I'll just say that I'd ideally like to get one of each
category done for the next batch of uploads: one
outdoor, one commentary, and one gaming.
