[Telecentres] web documentary: Baramati Bus Stop

[Andy Carvin]

Hi everyone,

This weekend I completed a short Web documentary on my visit to a mobile
computing lab in Baramati, India last week. The video, called Baramati
Bus Stop, is about six and a half minutes long. It explores the mobile
computing lab, which features two dozen thin-client computers installed
on a bus. I also show my visit to a rural primary school classroom, and
meeting some of the local village children who aren't enrolled in school
-- and thus have no access to the technology.

I've made two versions of the video, one without captioning and one with
captioning.

Without captions:
http://www.andycarvin.com/video/baramati-bus.mov

Captioned:
http://www.andycarvin.com/video/baramati-captioned.mov

Both versions of the movie are quite large - more than 45 megs. So you
may want to let the video download for a brief time before trying to
stream it. Better yet, download the whole thing first so you won't have
to worry about it pausing due to bandwidth bottlenecks. The movie is
released on a Creative Commons noncommercial/attribution/share-alike
license, which means it may be viewed, disseminated and even edited for
educational and noncommercial purposes.

For those of you who are interested in how I made the video, here are
some quick tech specs. I shot the video on a Canon A60 digital camera,
capturing about 15 minutes of footage, on location in Baramti, India. I
uploaded this footage to my Mac G4 laptop and edited it using Final Cut
Pro. Music was licensed from ProductionTrax.com; licenses for four songs
cost approximately USD $30. For voiceover (narration) I used Final Cut
Pro's voiceover tool, spoken through a LogiTech USB headset mic.
Captioning was also done using Final Cut Pro. The total editing process,
from uploading footage to exporting the movie as a Quicktime file, took
approximately eight hours over the course of several days.

Anyway, please check it out when you get a chance and let me know what
you think.

thanks,
andy carvin