Sometime in late 2002 I took-up my camcorder to shoot a short security training video, inspired by my experience running around as an interviewee for a security-themed BBC/Open University TV programme.

It was the first time I’d tried anything like this, and I had no idea about script, about style, about lighting, and about editing. I had a tendency to be distracted by the LCD, tripped over my unrehearsed words, and had not yet learned the basics of shooting and presenting to a fixed tripod.

The result was – well, frankly it wasn’t great, but it wasn’t inexcusably bad:

[ webpage ] [ quicktime ] [ 10Mb ]

…and so for Christmas I decided to convert it to MPEG video (10Mb) and upload it to share. The editing in this version is marginally worse than it was in the original, since I had to remove some transitions which messed up the audio in newer versions of iMovie; however the basic message is still there.

Also, from experimentation I believe that the file is iPod-video ready; if anyone would be so kind as to confirm that it works on the iPod, I would be most obliged.

If you like it? Let me know, leave a comment, and it may incent me to go re-edit and post the followup videos – which are rather better. 😎