Initial experiment version of 'Sights and Places'

The 'Sights and Places' one was probably the one I was most looking forward to because it really sums up the point of my project. I enjoy the travelling, don't get me wrong, but it's the sights and the places that I do it for and namely football.

I worked out how many different places I've been since August in the name of supporting Leicester City and it came to 22 individual places, but some places I've been to twice due to cup games and this isn't counting the 11 other football games I've undertaken. I worked out that since August 8th I've travelled over 4000 miles and that wasn't counting the trip to Preston (again) this weekend. 1000 of those miles came in two weeks thanks to trips to Blackpool, Bristol and Plymouth.

Analysis? The idea of the video is to document some of these sights and places. I've mixed still media with video and I think it works quite well. I like that the editing is relatively quickly, but not too quick that you don't get a glance at the places. However, I did try an initial edit where you got longer looks but felt it slowed the video down and you get the general idea anyway since several in a row might just be stadiums.

Some things to consider for moving it on? It doesn't have a completed soundscape as I needed to upload the spot sound for the birds at the beginning (I couldn't take it at the direct time because the service station car park was so loud you couldn't hear the birds, so i recorded a spot sound in my garden back in Grimsby) and then I wasn't sure what sounds to put with the still media yet.

However, after a talk and thinking about it, I've decided that since the sound of the road, that lumbering, constantly going sound that has its own sort of rhythm and is present in both of my other videos (and will be in the next one) that it could do with featuring here too. Perhaps not as loud as the other videos, but at an underlying rhythm.

Although the sound isn't the most important part of this video, I still need there to be some to enhance the video and complete it, so I will have to really think about it. Currently I also have a radio clip and some talking to compliment the end of the video, so it may be a case of mixing various sounds.

Here is the initial experimental version of the video...

Sights and Places from Helen Nutter on Vimeo.