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For the past ten years, I have made several visits to Wilburn Farm, just outside the town of Hawick in the Scottish Borders. Here, I have grown up in the beauty of the countryside in addition to the rest of Scotland's magnificent scenery. I am possible going back again in 2008 after a year gap which has never happened before. I'd like to make another film there, something extra special with my new camera. While on holiday here, I made a friend with a dog called 'Ben'. We had many a memory running around the farm and jumping over rivers.

I made this video from photos of my cat found in various photo albums. I am planning on making a documentary on Dusty as he is getting old and it would be nice to capture some memories of him. Here, you can see him get up to his usual habits and you get a taste of how different my family is with him around, enjoy.

This small video is a mash up of various clips that I took using my cybershot p73 still camera with movie mode. I was on a family holiday to Dumfries more... where I shot some footage and out having friends in Meadowfield park, Edinburgh. The beginning was a video of my birthday which must have been 15th or 16th at the time; 16 I think. Just when I started getting into video making. Take the video as you please, like it or hate it, i wouldn't blame you though if you didn't like it. The video size is 69.2mb so should work after a few moments.

This is another event type video which I made in August, 2005 prior to my first study year of video production. I went along to two mini tattoos, more... organised as part of the Edinburgh Tattoo to encourage the public who may not have got a ticket to come to the event. I was lucky enough to be present at both. I also attended the Festival Cavalcade and went on a tour bus which I may redo this year properly. The quality lacks again here and it was still quite a well before I made anything decent. If you want to be involved with the mini tattoo events, check out this link for the tattoo; http://www.edinburgh-tattoo.co.uk/index.html The video is 34.3mb so should load in a few minutes.

During May, 2006 a massive arts festival took place in Edinburgh. Similar events occur throughout the world where cow sculptures are placed around a town or city. In Edinburgh, maps were provided for visitors to try and find them all. I tried this myself which was quite fun although when I took part, it was the last week so quite a few had been stolen which spoiled the hunt and I didn't find them all after trailing to each location, only to find that they are gone. I made a photo video to reserve my memory of this unique event in Edinburgh.

Well, it was only a question of time when I was going to do one of these videos after browsing around you tube and live video. I made this at the end of 2007 in Autumn and was about to make a whole series of blog videos but I stopped because I became too busy. I hope to continue making new blogs for 2008 and really get into it. I found this challenge really testing and it took me a few days to master which is a long time.

This is basically one clip which I took from the 2005 Pipe Fest. The problem I had at this time was that to shoot in high quality footage, I only could film 30 seconds or so and then the memory stick ran out so after this, I gradually bought more memory which took a while. The event featured the biggest mass of pipes and drums ever seen anywhere in the world at any one time. It broke the world records as I'm aware. The event took place in Holyrood park, Edinburgh and featured a day of marching and finished when all the pipes played together which was slightly off timing to be honest but the sound and beat of the drum could be heard from a few miles away. To find out more about this event and others similar, check out; http://www.pipefest.com/ This video is 10.8mb so should load after a few minutes

Ten years ago, I went on a school trip to Vogrie country park, Midlothian which remains a special memory for me. At the time, several photos were taken from one of my parents' old cameras which am unsure of the model. I remember when three 'SMT' buses would take the three year groups here, p4 I believe at the time and would travel there by convoy. In late 2007, I decided to make some photo videos to archive memories I have myself along with my family.

I made this blog video while noticing my cat performing strange actions such as drinking from the bathroom which he shouldn't as it is not good for him. Recently in 2008, he has been drinking water in a bowl from here and we don't know he doesn't drink the water from the kitchen tap; it's very strange. Hope you enjoy this video of my pet and I'm going to make a documentary on him soon too.

Another blog which is purely based on hanging out and doesn't have much of a point. I quite liked this blog because I took you around the house so you get to see different locations. I became distracted by the cat alot during the filming of this blog. Hope you enjoy it, Alan.

I produced this video in April, 2006 to showcase Edinburgh's newly named 'Spring Festival' which has been struggling to keep going due to a lack of funding from the Edinburgh Council. The Spring Festival is a mix of acts from around the globe which provide a wide selection of music along with games and activites for young people.

I made this photo video to showcase my family experiences of the beach from when I was very young until more recently. Most every holiday involved a trip to the beach and this became a fav part for me and my sister. I chose a tune from the nutcracker which I felt created a humorous tone to the piece, hope you like it. Me and my sister used to build a large pond where we would then create rivers connecting to the see, it was lots of fun.

In June and July 2007, I attended a summer school at Edinburgh University and Napier University in a course that taught me the skills needed to survive at University. Such skills were note taking, organization skills, time management and sorting information into relevant info only. We took two more subjects in addition to the learning skills which for me was language, literature, media and an introduction to data analysis which I felt were okay but boring in places. As a whole, the learning skills was my fav part as we worked in groups most of the time and had a weekly cooking part where a student tutor would perform a cook lesson to break up the day. We had many social events too which were fun such as bowling, rounders, lazer quest and our graduation from summer school.

In September, 2007 Edinburgh hosted it's first sports event which encouraged the public to become aware of healthy living and exercise. The event took the form of a parade from Edinburgh's Market Street to West Princes Street Gardens. It was brought to the public by Edinburgh Leisure as an attempt to encourage more people in Scotland to eat healthy foods and exercise more. I saw an article in the paper about the event and decided that it may be a good event to film. I was right and I managed to put together this film/newsreport.

I'm currently studying Film and TV Production and for one of our first video tasks, we were given an envelope to open which contained one themed title which we would then have to use as the template for a short video. We were given 'Ecology' and so we went searching around Dalkeith looking for something interesting. At first, we thought to use the park near the High Street but then by chance were given permission by a kind elderly person to film in their stunning garden. The result is what you see. The shot of the trees was filmed just outside the college main entrance and some shots were also filmed in a park near too.

I went to the Royal Highland Show in 2007 a second time after enjoying my time there in 2006. The day was a complete washout where the only times when it was sunny was when my camera was rolling hence the film's short length. I liked using my new camera to see how different the film is with some extra zoom power. I think this film gives more information on the event and gives the audience a chance to see more of the show which I hadn't shown before.

During my last year of Primary School and last year if Secondary school, I went to Lagganlia, an outdoor education centre which provide a fun filled week of water rafting, team exercises, raft races, canoing, cycling, archery, gorge walking, rock climbing and navigating. I went the first time for a week and a weekend the second time. The highlight of the first was hitting a rock while rafting and having the boat turn upside down, however we didn't fall in thankfully. The second time I went, we had a huge raft race where my team won but we were catapulted into the water by an opposing team who cheated by pushing our boat over. The water was freezing as it was in December. Another funny highlight was when we had to fill up a tube with water and the leader told us to step away from it afterwards; unknown to us, there were holes in it and so we got a little wet. This video is 64.9mb so should take a few minutes to load.

I made this photo video at the end of 2007 showing my experiences on a school trip in 2005 and 2006. I have used music from Kevin MacLeod, who composes royalty free music for use in films without the fear of copyright infringement. Enjoy and look out for my London Glitz film of this experience too.

In June 2007, the Scottish Parliament began it's third session and to celebrate the Queen, Parliament and People of Scotland with a day long event beginning with the old Scots tradition of the Riding which in 2007 started at the top of the Royal Mile and continued down the Mile to Holyrood Park, outside the Parliament. The Queen gave an address to members of Parliament which was then followed by a outdoor music concert called 'Picnic in the Parliament' which was a free event attracting many people from Scotland. The day felt very Scottish and I felt proud to be there. I noticed however that the turn out could have been better but most people don't have so much connection with the Queen. I went along to film the event and to celebrate my country of Scotland. This film took a week to edit so I hope you like it as I put quite a bit of effort into this one.