Geoff from geoffmobile.com talks about how Toastmasters has changed his life, and how he is currently working on controlling how much he blinks while on camera.

Geoff is a member of two different Toastmasters clubs: TM Club 59 tmclub59.com and Best Run Toastmasters.

Geoff is currently on his 9th speech in the Competent Communicator manual (CC) and is looking forward to trying out the advanced manuals soon.

Thanks for watching!
Cheers,
Geoff
geoffmobile.com

Technical notes:
Camera: Canon EOS T2i (550d) with Canon 18-200mm IS lens, manual white balance, Magic Lantern Unified, Technicolor Cinestyle.
Audio: Sennheiser lapel mic plugged into camera.
Edited with Adobe Premiere Pro CS5.5 on a Windows 7 Dell PC (Intel i7 and USB 3.0 for a faster workflow).
Color correction: Saturation increase using Fast Color Corrector, added blue tone to shadows using 3 way color corrector, and fixed contrast using RGB Curves (Technicolor Cinestyle preset)
Audio processed in Audacity using Split to Mono, Normalize / DC Offset removal, SC4 compressor, and W1 Limiter.

Geoff from geoffmobile.com visits Cento Notti restaurant in Vancouver BC Canada.

Restaurant’s web site: centonotti.com/

Cento Notti Restaurant Vancouver (in the Opus Hotel)
350 Davie Street
Vancouver BC Canada
phone: 604-642-0557

Shown in video:
Interior of restaurant, nice sunny day at lunch time!
Green salad with goat cheese and pear.
Pasta with tomato sauce, olives, and seared ahi-tuna

Thanks for watching!! mmmmmmmm!
Cheers,
Geoff
geoffmobile.com

Camera: Sony Cybershot DSC-HX9V
Edited with Adobe Premiere Pro CS5.5 on a Windows 7 Dell PC (Intel i7 and USB 3.0 for a faster workflow).

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Geoff from geoffmobile.com gives a tour of the Vancouver Skytrain (Canada Line).

In this video, Geoff starts by walking down Davie Street in downtown Vancouver to the Yaletown Canada Line station. He then goes two stops outbound (South) past the Olympic Village to the Broadway / City Hall Stop. Geoff goes up the escalator to Broadway and Cambie, and walks west on Broadway to Ash street where he takes in the beautiful view of the North Shore mountains and views of downtown.

The closing music song (with female vocals and synthesizer) is a snippet of Geoff’s original remix of the Imogen Heap tune “The Song that Never Was”. You can listen to the full song for free at:
soundcloud.com/gpeters/imogen-heap-song-that-never

Thanks a lot for watching and see you next time!!

Cheers,
Geoff
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A Birds in the House Production
birdsinthehouse.com

Technical notes:
Filmed on a Sony Cybershot DSC-HX9V and edited with Adobe Premiere Pro CS5.5.2 on a Windows 7 Dell PC (Intel i7 and USB 3.0 for a faster workflow).

Yopo Cafe
1122 Homer Street
Vancouver, BC, Canada
phone: 604-609-9676
Restaurant web site: www.yopocafe.com/

Geoff from geoffmobile.com visits Yopo Cafe in Yaletown.

This is yummy Great Chinese food in Yaletown, downtown Vancouver BC Canada.

Thanks for watching!
Cheers,
Geoff

Technical notes:
This is a very “mobile” video: it was filmed and edited entirely on a Google Nexus S Android Smartphone (on the Wind network) using the “Movie Studio” app available in Ice Cream Sandwich (ICS). No desktop computer or separate video camera was used for the creation of this video!

Yaletown L’Antipasto
1127 Mainland St
Vancouver BC Canada
Phone: 604.558.1174

www.yaletownlantipasto.com

Filmed and edited entirely on a Google Nexus S.

This is part of my experimenting with mobile video. This video was shot and edited entirely on my cell phone (Google includes an editing software “Movie Studio” app directly on their latest Android phones). My phone is a Google Nexus S running Ice Cream Sandwich (ICS). As you can see, the resulting video is not a polished professional product, but it certainly gets the idea across, and was ridiculously fast to do (it just took a few minutes to edit the clips together).

The Power of the Video Language
by Geoff Peters, Feb 9th 2012

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Presented to Best Run Toastmasters club in Vancouver BC Canada.

- The power of video to communicate ideas

Intro:
Youtube:· 8 years of content uploaded every day, Over 3 billion views of videos /day
But what’s significant about Online Video?
Why should you get involved and learn how to create it?

1. Visual culture and language
2. Communicate complex ideas quickly
3. Scalable to time and place.

1. Visual culture and language
-We’re a visual culture: younger generation, TV watchers, a visual language of film.

- NyTimes: – Average American: 34 hours of television each week (2010)

- Canada: around ½ that.

- 2-6 hours /day of TV compared with 30 minutes of reading.

2. Communicate complex ideas easily:

- Documentaries have power to change real world (Super Size Me).

- Example of my new website for instant mashups to idea to reality in 1 week, developed by someone I don’t know.

Combine sound and still or moving images, capture reality or show something abstract.

3. Scalable to time and place
– Anyone can watch a video, jump traditional hierarchies.

Godfrey’s video idea gets noticed by directors.
– Can reach a large audience, video player does the work for you (Youtube).
– People watching don’t have to be located in the same place or time as you.

(Sharing my videos with virtual friends in Berlin Germany, Vietnam, Japan, Australia).

Conclusion:
- Ability to create, communicate in video, and interpret the language of video

- will become an important part of literacy.
Video language – power to communicate complex ideas quickly,

and scale across the globe or across an organization.
Technology for making video is getting cheaper – through TV and Youtube we already know the language, so let’s get comfortable speaking it!

References:

www.newmediatrendwatch.com/markets-by-country/11-long-haul/45-canada

www.tv.com/news/how-much-television-do-you-watch-per-week-24833/

Other notes:

Idea in your head to Words to Interpretation to Thoughts in another person’s mind.

Richness of mediums:
-In Person – one on one
-Phone (one on one, voice only, not rich, real time)
-Video (scalable)

Broadcasting to many

Advantages:
Vlogging
Abstract vs discussion
Editing is needed?

Easy:
Need: Tripod, camera, computer (iMovie or Windows Live Movie Maker = free)

Advantages of video blogging.

Recorded with:
Sony Cybershot DSC-HX7V (camera)
and Sony ICD-SX712 (audio recorder)

Geoff Peters from geoffmobile.com discusses the concept of Alphabetical Order and whether it is still a valuable way of organizing information in the current information age.

Geoff also discusses a viewpoint of Alphabetical Order as a simple, easy to understand way to organize information, and how it (and other systems of organizing information) can be used as a marketing tool or advantage over one’s competitors.

Thanks for watching!
Please rate, comment, and subscribe

See you next time (:
Cheers,
Geoff

Technical notes:

Video camera: Sony Cybershot DSC-HX7V set with manual white balance and EV -1 stop.

Audio: Sony ICD-SX712 with Lapel mic under shirt, processed with Audacity.

Edited with Adobe Premiere Pro CS5.5 (5.5.2) on a Windows 7 Dell PC (Intel i7 and USB 3.0 for a faster workflow). Audio was synced with video using Pluraleyes by Singular software.

Geoff Peters presented the Thought of the Day at the Best Run Toastmasters club in Vancouver BC Canada. He gives a hopefully inspirational thought that is based on a post called “The Ted Imperatives” by Seth Godin.

sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2012/01/the-ted-imperatives.html

For more videos from Geoff please visit geoffmobile.com

Thanks and have a great day!
Cheers,
Geoff

Geoff Peters from Vancouver BC Canada talks about his system for organizing his activities outside work, achieving his personal goals, and getting things done.

Geoff’s blog

geoffmobile.com

Toodledo web site that Geoff uses:

toodledo.com

Getting Things Done (GTD):

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Getting_Things_Done

www.davidco.com/

www.amazon.com/Getting-Things-Done-Stress-Free-Productivity/dp/0142000280

Technical notes:
Recorded on a Sony Cybershot DSC-HX7V.

A vignette and color correction were applied in Adobe Premiere Pro CS5.5.

Audio was recorded from a Lapel mic directly into Audacity via the mic-in port on my Dell Windows PC running Windows 7 (Intel i7 processor and USB 3.0 for a faster workflow). The audio was adjusted using the Compressor and Hard Limiter tools in Audacity, and synchronized with the video using the software Pluraleyes by Singular Software.

Due to the vignette, RGB Curves, and Fast color corrector, this video took 4 hours to render (normally a video of this length would take 20 minutes or less to render).

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centonotti.com/

Cento Notti Restaurant Vancouver (in the Opus Hotel)
350 Davie Street
Vancouver BC Canada
phone: 604-642-0557

A delicious meal at Cento Notti.

Shown in video:
-Interior of the restaurant at lunch time, showing the window, tables, and some people dining
-The Chef’s Salad and tomatoes
-The freshly baked bread and crispy bread sticks
-The pasta of the day: House made Spaghetti with Shrimp – extremely delicious!
-Thanks very much!!

This restaurant is part of the SAP Lunch On Us Program (SAP Food program) for employees of SAP Labs Vancouver.

Thanks a lot for watching, and see you next time!
Cheers,
Geoff

geoffmobile.com

Technical notes:
Filmed on a Canon EOS T2i with Magic Lantern, using a 17-85mm IS lens. Edited with Adobe Premiere CS5.5 on a Windows 7 PC (Intel i7).