Did you clean the tape head? Game over Cameraman, Game Over!

I graduated from University in May of 2008.

While writing that specific date, I soon realised how much has changed since I graduated.

For the better I might add.

When I was still in full-time studies, H.264 had just begun to allow high definition streaming capabilities that surpassed FLV formats. Youtube streamers and profiteers were still a way off or even in some form of infantile state.

The top end camera's had just begun to experiment in real terms with solid state storage drives for video footage. I remember Panasonic HVX cameras almost being perceived as a novelty.

Back then, most of my own work was recorded on mini dv tape. The hope was I would log my work well enough on set, to convert them later on when editing was due to happen. In most cases the footage to be recorded wasn't even required to be in 16:9. Most university courses didn't know what to do about it, as broadcast was still struggling to decide if they even could broadcast quality 16:9; Japan on the other hand was experimenting with 4K broadcast for phones!

Then things changed. As with the ever forward march in time and progress.

Which brings me to the point. I have only one remaining piece left of my course studies @ Salford University and it is this. Unfortunately most of my own work from this time is no longer with us, either lost in the perishment associated with magnetic tape or it's still concatenated on the three, now long dead Lacie Brick drives buried somewhere in a landfill near Bolton.

"Fabien - Sittin Here Wit U" is a music video for a friend with whom I have lost contact with, named Mimi Cheung.

As a piece of work that I'm not all that proud of it. It's format is squashed and the split segments looked dated when we made it in 2008. The one thing I do still love about it is the last remaining shots of Fabien and her beautiful hair and crisp visuals, that for a DV format conversion still look fantastic. Songs not bad too.

Anyway here it is, and all I can say is I hope you like it and I assure you I along with those times have progressed...thankfully!