August 4, 2010

Polish YouTube review of Bad Blood

Filed under: Bad Blood,Poland,video,YouTube — Rhiannon Lassiter @ 9:53 am

I found this on the internet a couple of weeks ago but didn’t post about it until I could ask my Polish editor what it said. I had an email from her a couple of days ago and she says that it’s a good review (whew!).

According to Natalia: “They are talking about what’s there in your book, about the characters, the plot. But they are also saying that you’ve managed to write something new in spite of the fact that the genre which you used (horror) is not at all easy, because it is so conventional. And you – you wrote Bad
Blood in a very fresh way.”

So that’s all good. I’m glad the book seems to be doing well in Poland!

April 4, 2010

Bologna videos

Filed under: Bologna,book release,events,video,YouTube — Tags: , , — Rhiannon Lassiter @ 1:53 pm

I’ve uploaded two Bologna videos to my You Tube account, one still to come.

So far I’ve uploaded some video of the illustrators wall and a video of the launch party for the Great Big Book of Families, written by Mary Hoffman and illustrated by Ros Asquith and published by Frances Lincoln.

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3BxBfltm8fw]
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gUYAbgC2Hmc]

November 18, 2009

Bad Blood the short film

Filed under: Bad Blood,Flickr,video,YouTube — Rhiannon Lassiter @ 3:31 pm

Yesterday I made my first video. I’ve had all sorts of software to help me do this for years and years but I’ve only just managed to make something with it. The Bad Blood short film is only 33 seconds long but I made it all myself.

The voice effect is me reading the Bad Blood poem, adjusting the pitch of my voice for each character, adding an echo effect and layering the sound so that the last two lines are spoken by all three voices. I created this in GarageBand and saved the sound file. The video is a piece of film I took of the real house in the Lake District, filtered to make it look more threatening. I cut and spliced this with the sound file and the photographic images using iMovie. The images that appear are photoshopped image files, mostly taken by me but a few from copyright free images on the internet, all heavily photoshopped, filtered and then added with a ‘ken burns’ effect into the iMovie video. Finally I exported the whole thing and put the video on YouTube. The images (if anyone would like to see them as single shots) are available on Flickr here.

I’ve rated the video PG13 because it is scary. It scared me and the sound file alone scared my sister! Don’t watch it if you think you might find it too much for you.

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ubKMJs58gow&hl=en_US&fs=1&rel=0]

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