Monthly Archives: February 2009

The Studio Sessions Song Writing

  The Studio Sessions – Song Writing with Phill Mason Part 1. Song writing video about tips and techniques for laying down individual tracks to build up the parts of a standard rock band. Drums, bass and two guitars. This is a funk rock style guitar riff I’ve had in my head for a while…

Kung Fu Video Screen Grabs

  After a couple of hours filming at the local Kung Fu Club, it was time to offload the P2 card into the PC. I thought I’d stick up a couple of screen grabs whilst I get stuck into the editing. I wanted to take some footage as my kids are learning Kung Fu here…

Snowy Trees At Night

  I just caught a glimpse of the garden from the back of the house and wondered if my faithful old Canon 350D SLR would let in enough light to capture the beautiful postcard image I was seeing. There was a wonderful warm glow of orange from a nearby wall light which cast some lovely…

Colour Correction With The Panasonic HVX200 And SGPro 35mm Adapter

  Screen Grabs & Colour Correction With The Panasonic HVX200 P2 Camcorder I had the pleasure recently of spending a freezing cold afternoon at the local park with the kids and although my ears were about to drop off because I’d forgotten to take neither a hat, scarf or gloves with me, I still had…

How To Recover A Baby Grand Piano Keyboard

  I’d finally come to the decision that there was only so much skin I was prepared to loose on my fingers from playing my Cramer baby grand piano with its decomposing keys. It was time to recover the entire keyboard in order to give it both an aesthetic makeover and make the feel and…