This week I have been working on improving the 'Moving Image' section of photoneil.com. When I first built the site (designed and built by 76 Creative) the Moving Image page featured Neil's video showreel, since then video has become a more prominent aspect of his work so I have created a video gallery page for the site, allowing him to showcase a range of his video work under different categories.

As this video gallery uses seperate pages for the video list and the player itself I programmed it in PHP using the Longtail / JW Player to play the flv videos. For more information about encoding video for Flash as flv see my article: Encoding FLV

The video gallery also offers the option to download higher quality Quicktime Movies of each video. I encoded the quicktimes using the mpeg-4 codec and reducing the frame size slightly to allow for higher picture and sound quality while keeping the filesizes reasonable for a download.

Check it out: www.photoneil.com/movingimage.php

Here's the new Comus Productions Showreel for 2008, as you can see we have been busy! To watch more videos, or for more information visit the Comus Website: www.comusproductions.co.uk

Soundtrack: Goin' Off by Lazer
Shot by Nick Bedu and Edited by Sam Burdge for Comus Productions.

Comus Productions is the company I edit video for. Over the last 5 years or so we have shot and cut many videos for corporate clients, fashion promos, educational videos and TV. The site itself is built in php with elements of flash, such as the flv video player and slideshows.

Visit the site: www.comusproductions.co.uk

The Peoples Studio website is built in flash backed up by php and xml scripts. It features an mp3 player, flash maps, contact forms for the different staff members and for showreel requests, and an animated intro. The site is powered by a bespoke CMS, which is built in php and allows the editing of every text-field in the entire site.

Original designs and layouts by Karl Wood for See Hear Speak.

Check out the site: www.peoplesstudio.co.uk