Calling All Helmet Cam Cyclists
magnatom
Posts: 492
Unfortunately for everyone else, I've had one of my ideas! :rolleyes:
For anyone who doesn't know, (what do you mean you don't know!) I'm a helmet camera cyclist (some would say infamous...) and I do try my best to use it as a campaigning tool. As Gaz has shown on his blog, there is a grown number of us in the UK and globally.
I wondered what would happen if we all published one video from one particular day, together. What would it produce? Would it be loads of terrible incidents? Or, would it be a collection of videos showing the joys of commuting, or, something else?
So I decided to stick my neck out and set a date. 10th October 2011 (a week on Monday before it gets too dark!). I'm going to produce a video and it would be great if others did as well. If people send me the links of the videos, along with a 25 (max) word description we could pull them together and see what we end up with.
Will it be something that could be used in campaigning? Would it be an advert for cycling, or would it show how bad things can get? I don't know. That is up to the 'cammers'!
So if you have a camera and you cycle commute, why not video on the 10th. Let see what happens!
Oh and if you know another 'cammer' or know another online place they congregate let them know.
More information on my blog (http://www.magnatom.net/2011/09/cycle-video-day.html)
For anyone who doesn't know, (what do you mean you don't know!) I'm a helmet camera cyclist (some would say infamous...) and I do try my best to use it as a campaigning tool. As Gaz has shown on his blog, there is a grown number of us in the UK and globally.
I wondered what would happen if we all published one video from one particular day, together. What would it produce? Would it be loads of terrible incidents? Or, would it be a collection of videos showing the joys of commuting, or, something else?
So I decided to stick my neck out and set a date. 10th October 2011 (a week on Monday before it gets too dark!). I'm going to produce a video and it would be great if others did as well. If people send me the links of the videos, along with a 25 (max) word description we could pull them together and see what we end up with.
Will it be something that could be used in campaigning? Would it be an advert for cycling, or would it show how bad things can get? I don't know. That is up to the 'cammers'!
So if you have a camera and you cycle commute, why not video on the 10th. Let see what happens!
Oh and if you know another 'cammer' or know another online place they congregate let them know.
More information on my blog (http://www.magnatom.net/2011/09/cycle-video-day.html)
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Old!
http://www.bikeradar.com/forums/viewtop ... t=12804508
Beaten to your own post; oh, the shame!
It could work quite well as a YouTube playlist, too, I think; but I also think 10 minutes is probably too long. I probably wouldn't watch many 10 minute videos unless they were really exciting for some reason. Hopefully, a lot will be significantly shorter than that, just enough to give a flavour.
It'd be really quite good if the "Day in the live" could actually reflect a day. So people say what time their 10 (or fewer) minutes were at, and they get stitched together to cover a day's worth of commuting, e.g. from 6am to 8pm. That would depend on a lot of people getting involved though.0 -
Missed that! :oops:
I've got a new blog post which provides a bit more detail. (http://www.magnatom.net/2011/10/cycle-video-day-detail.html)
There is no stipulation on frame rate etc. Just post your video on YouTube or similar so that it can be linked to.
Oh and it doesn't need to be helmet mounted video!0 -
Did you get much uptake on this? I still have my morning commute from the 10th if you'd like me to cut a 5 or 10 min clip from it?FCN 2 to 80
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It has gone very well! Have a look here http://cyclevideoday.blogspot.com/p/videos-2011.html
There are still more to go up, so we might end up with more than 50 videos.
If you have a video to submit, get it in!
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Uploading a clip to you tube for this. Will submit the form tomorrow once it's finished.0
