"Video Killed the radio star...."
IAD - Institut des Arts de Diffusion, Brussels
- part of learning audio-visual techniques: practice with big ex TV cameras and 2 inch VTR.
- made a couple of video films for a French university
St Union College, Southampton, England
- attended special training course for video in Education in London
- took part in a consortium to share a future video bus with university in Southampton and College in Winchester
Group Video Chain, Brussels
- worked with all sorts of formats and makes of equipment, from 1 inch big machines to 1/4 inch Akai portable; from B/W to colour;
- made a lot of live training recordings (role plays, etc.);
- production tape for the Monastery of Maredsous - about their work- being shown in the big church;
- first colour production for a few companies with Philips VCR equipment;
- extra-curriculum activities in high schools and universities: brought multi camera recording equipment to teach students how to make video products.
Socio-cultural
- collaboration with the Video Freaks from Canada, touring the world with Sony portable gear to make productions with local people about their culture;
- La Station: a place opened to the public to run workshops about sound, and video;
- Chateau Malou: a big property converted in a cultural centre where we ran workshops on video production. But also we managed to produce video news and reports with local people for transmission on the TV cable distribution network across Brussels: local cable TV
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| Chateau Malou in Brussels |
Management Centre Europe, Brussels
- made "corporate" video films about the company and the staff- shot and edited in VHS- to share with the other centres across the world
- invented the theory that video changed training completely as the participants could judge their performance based on their own perception of the play back- for the first time- instead of through the feedback of others, as before;
- made the first video-disco in the company for charity: we played recording of Band Aid on big projection screen and people donated money to the cause; and so did management;
- followed a specialised training course on Video in Management training in Scanticon, near Aarhus in Denmark
- lots of filming of training sessions, like role playing, etc.
- specially: seminars on Effective Presentation Skills with Susan Huskisson: before I became a "guest speaker" with a short PowerPoint workshop, I did a lot of filming of participants and their practice sessions. First, with a big camera and a 1 inch Ampex recorder in the corridor. At then end, we used Panasonic VHS camcorders with built-in cassettes: we could review their performance during the seminar and they got to take their own cassette home, to play on their VHS machines. Happiness all around!
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| Susan Huskisson in a training seminar |
Centre Multimedia, Bruxelles
- published articles in Pour le Cinema Belge and Special Video
- video workshops at the MMedia Centre and the FNAC
- made a videofilm entirely shot and edited in VHS "Les Larmes de Sang" with much make-up and effects by Patrick Dewandeleer. Presented in the annual Cinema Independant festival in Brussels.
- video reports of the activitiesFestival du Film Fantastique- Passage 44 - in Brussels: scary make-up, guests, animations,etc.
- video coverage of the Festival organised by the Multimedia Cemtre itself: interviews, workshps,etc. The reports were shot in the day, edited at night and presented on monitors or on the bib screen-through video projector-the same day or the next day. Although quite a novelty, those video reports attracted less interest than the films; maybe because they looked too much like ordinary old television.
