Hi everyone, This weekend, I edited a Web documentary on Dubai Creek, the waterway that passes through the city of Dubai in the United Arab Emirates. Many of Dubai's residents still utilize an old system of water taxis, or abras, to cross the creek.
The video, Dubai Creek: Day & Night, is four and a half minutes long, about the length of a crossing on a water taxi. The video offers a peek at life along the Creek during a daytime crossing from Bur Dubai to Deira, as well as a nighttime one in the opposite direction. Rather than narrating the video, I added occasional subtitles to supply additional information about the Creek and the abra water taxis. All visuals and audio were captured by me on location. (Look out for a cameo by me and Ivar Tallo of the Estonian E-Governance Academy near the end of the video.) Download the video: high res (broadband) http://www.andycarvin.com/video/dubaicreek.mov low res (dial-up) http://www.andycarvin.com/video/dubaicreek-low.mov Please feel free to share this video; I'm releasing it on a Creative Commons Noncommercial, Attribution, Share-Alike license. Production Notes: The clips shown in this video were recorded in May 2005 during my second trip to Dubai. All clips were shot on a Konica Minolta A-200 8.0 megapixel digital camera. They were edited on a Mac G4 Powerbook laptop running Final Cut Pro HD, then exported to two Quicktime files, one for broadband viewing and one for low-speed Internet connections. Total editing time, including exporting, took approximately three hours. thanks, ac -- ----------------------------------- Andy Carvin Program Director EDC Center for Media & Community acarvin @ edc . org http://www.digitaldivide.net http://www.tsunami-info.org Blog: http://www.andycarvin.com ----------------------------------- _______________________________________________ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.edc.org/mailman/listinfo/digitaldivide To unsubscribe, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word UNSUBSCRIBE in the body of the message.
