My first foray into video-blogging. Excuse the uhms and erms and ahhs, and the strange lighting, and something really weird going on with my hair. It's taken me two days to figure out how to use the webcam and then how to convert the massive AVI file I created into something I could upload, but hopefully now I know what to do I'll be quicker at it next time! I'm considering video-blogging some reviews in the future, as I'm finding concentrating on writing long posts difficult since starting my new job last year.
Untitled from Victoria on Vimeo.
Stuff I done talked about:
The Thirteen Gun Salute by Patrick O'Brian (Book 13 Aubrey-Maturin series)
Lavinia by Ursula le Guin
The Making of the British Landscape by Francis Pryor
Case Histories by Kate Atkinson (Book 1 Jackson Brodie series)
Dart by Alice Oswald
The Rime of the Modern Mariner by Nick Hayes
Tender: A Cook and his vegetable patch by Nigel Slater
The Reader Magazine (http://www.thereader.org.uk/)
Hi Victoria, I like your video very much! Thanks for the effort. Patrick O'Brian is awesome! I read all of his Maturin series.
I like what you do with your hair (left shoulder-right shoulder :))
Looking forward to seeing the next instalment.
Posted by: Claudia | Monday, July 04, 2011 at 06:47 PM
Thanks for this Victoria, I really enjoyed it. Loved the close-ups of author photographs :).
I liked the Case Histories TV adaptation too, especially the episodes based on the third Jackson Brodie book, When Will There Be Good News?.
Posted by: Karen | Monday, July 04, 2011 at 08:38 PM
I really enjoyed this - it was great to see you address the physicality of the books, showing us the pages, cover and photos, making them more real somehow.
The only critique I would have is the sound - you speak clearly, but even with my speakers all the way up, it was a bit too quiet.
Keep up the good work though please!
Posted by: Helen | Tuesday, July 05, 2011 at 08:41 PM
I really enjoyed this video, Victoria - thanks for making the effort! It's great to hear all about your 'book loot', and I loved all the little details about each book.
Looking forward to another one!
Posted by: Caroline | Thursday, July 07, 2011 at 12:16 PM
I like the sense of adventure in this new endeavor. Congrats and keep it up.
Posted by: Sarah | Friday, July 08, 2011 at 03:27 PM
What a great idea! I'm a long-time visitor of this blog but it's nice to see you in person (and the books too!)
Posted by: Smithereens | Wednesday, July 13, 2011 at 03:49 PM
Cool! Now you just need to enable video comments... :-)
Posted by: Andrew Blackman | Wednesday, July 20, 2011 at 08:16 PM