Club Arnage

My brother filmed our exploits at Le Mans this year, and the video is very good, nice mixture of racing and messing about, and the music goes well with it I think. Download it here :

http://www.mdh-photography.co.uk/Gallery/le_mans_05.htm

great video!! 8)
nice to watch ;D

I hope ours will be there soon too... :-\


ps. just one question; why is it zipped 46 MB and unzipped 47 MB? ???

Dunno, my brother sent it to me like that.

...that was really good, you`re right about the music.

Really good vid thanks for sharing.  It certainly captures the atmosphere, the sounds and the culinary delights!  Big congratulations to your brother.   :D

An excellent video, well filmed and edited, with a great soundtrack.

It really gives you a feel of the spirit and atmosphere of Le Mans.

What an excellent piece of work!!!

What sort of equipment was he using??

Awesome!!!

What was the soundtrack. I used to have it but I've lost it!

Excellent work, A+ download thanks for sharing....Ian

Very, very impressive - as others have stated, it really captures the essence of the weekend and the soundtrack to visuals makes it very watchable. Congratulations.
I did a similar (though nothing like as professional) effort on VHS of my video footage from the 89 race, plus some plagurised Eurosport footage -  using The Eagles, "Life in the Fastlane", with a smattering of Wagner for the Saubers that kicked ass that year.
We used it as our 'warm-up', during the mobile piss-up in the RV that we rented for a couple of subsequent races. It was nothing like as professional as this though. Congratulations again - very evocative stuff.
 

Absolutely superb stuff. Does this guy work in the media? If not, he should, it's far better than the crap put out by the professionals, i.e. ACO, Duke Video etc.

Sounds from all the above comments that this is a great effort.

For those of us still in the stone age and running on dialup is there any possibility of getting hold of a CD? I'm quite willing to pay postage and media costs.

Very good, I think each and everyone of us can relate to most aspects of which is why it is so good.

that was an awesome little video. really captured the atmosphere of the whole week

I'll burn you a copy and post it to you!!!

That's fricken awesome! (http://www.yourfavoritedriversucks.com/xForum/images/smilies/custom/sanchez/thumbsup.gif)

Cheers JPC. Do you have my address?

Certainly do!! Will burn it this evening!!

Cause you can't compress video much by zippin' it. ;) So zipping is mostly only done to get it through firewalls and virus scanners that block movie content...

Great movie! wonderfull choice of music to complete it.

JPC, are you going to burn his adress, his house or what???  ???

We could probably post a few if people want (brother is away atm...), plus if we put it on CD it can be much higher quality. Let me know if you are interested...

Mike.  I would be interested in a higher quality copy.

Sounds good to me. I can also burn and distribute copies if required.

I'll hold back then Pretzel, I didn't geta  chance to copy it yet. Unless you'd like the lower res version for the time being???

Could we do this the same way Robbo did the shirts etc, firm orders with money, it seems that it will be popular.  any other views?

I would be intrest in seeing it, as will not open on my pc. Could we work a round robin like the Audi DVD did?

Well, JPC just offered to burn it, maybe a copy can be brought by one of his team to S'stone?

JPC - you may as well hold back unless it's going to be a long time for Mikes high quality rendition. Thanks for offering.

Mike - How long is it likely to be before a high quality copy is available? P.S. my offer of burning and passing on copies still stands. It worked quite well with the Audi DVD that I did a while back.

Talking of the Audi DVD - Smokie if you are reading this did you get the DVD I gave to Wishy to pass on to you at LM?

Thank you, yes, I did get it and am most grateful. I would have thanked you earlier but I couldn't remember who I needed to thank!  ::)

It's an age thing  ;)

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No problem. I quite understand - I saw you at the 'poo bar at the CA gathering and it's no wonder really...

Got it to work.
Fantasic. Great Job.
Now we know were to come for the Le Mans Calling video

I can burn some as soon as my brother gets home from Germany, it's this weekend as far as I know!

I could also bring a few along to Silverstone for the LMES, perhaps with extra footage :)

Mike I think that video is way cool!!!If any copies make it to the USA,I would love to have one.

Mike:

A class production.  Everyone who's been doing Le Mans saw so much of their own good times reflected in your film.  A must for newbies in 06 to get a taste of what they're in for!

Mike, that is a fantastic video, but you knew that already.

It shows how good it was for you all but also is so good at doing the whole Le Mans thing that I may never need to go back anymore.... (OK Sheer absolute bullsh... but you ALL know what I mean)

Your brother is outstandingly good at making these videos I hope he gets lots of money for doing them. I could offer copies from mine but I think maybe he should have the option of making a few quid from it first. Let us know what he says on his return. I really do not want to take anything from him.

I was sitting here watching it (Cannot believe it has been sitting quietly in its little folder waiting for me to turn the sound backon and play it) and it told me everything I ever wanted to know about a bunch of blokes doing a French field, camping thing while there was a motor race on.

Total respect!

 :D

bill

Well thanks for the comments everyone, I'll let my brother have a read. He's home now, so we'll sort out whether we can do some copies of it tomorrow and I'll let you know.

Hi all, thanks very much for all the comments, I'm really flattered by it all.

To answer a few questions:

It's zipped because there are a lot of people who browse the Internet and don't know about the magic "save target as" button, and would just click the link, therefore, trying to stream a 45MB file and probably giving up when nothing happens. If it's zipped you have to save it.

In terms of equipment, it's a very basic setup. Sony DCR HC18 Mini DV camcorder, and a semi fisheye lens attachment (not always used). Only around £320 worth of kit when new.

The music was DJ Tiesto - Forever Today.

No, I don't work in the media, I wish I did, I'm only 20 and currently looking for a job as I've just finished an IT degree, if you want to employ me for video please get in touch! :P It's certainly something I would love to do. I currently work in Jessops, so photography and video are a big hobby of mine.

About high quality CDs/DVDs, I've got the source DV Avi sitting on my desktop weighing in at 2.5GB, I can probably do some DVDs or CDs, CDs are probably easier, and will still retain a lot of quality I reckon.

Again, thanks a lot for the comments, it's greatly appreciated. 8)

Keep the video as part of your portfolio.....should help you in you job search.

I'm no expert at these things, but as everyone else has said, the video was fantastic - even made a chip butty look interesting.

Best of luck

Del

I will say it again, the video is excellent. I have shown it to quite a few people including 2 of our guys that are not online as much as they would like to be. I would be very interested in a hard copy as what with other video will keep me going till 2006. Thanks again for sharing....Ian

WOW! ;D ;D ;D that was feckin tops. Sums up what a Le Mans weekend is all about. It's been said before but put in in your portfolio and get it seen cos you aint gonna be short of work. Thanks.

Martyn your a star :D

Cheers

Gazza

That was very cool to watch, it makes me want to go back as soon as possible, but unfortunately I´ll have to wait like everyone else for almost 11 months :-[.

Loved your choice of music, Tiesto rules, gotta love the dutch!!

Watched it today after downloading it a few days ago. Absolutely cracking, sums it up perfectly.

That is the mutts nuts!!!

I now know what I did for 5 days in june.

Top work indeed.

Martyn or Mike H,

Any further news on the CD/DVD?

BTW My offer to copy and distribute still stands.

I was going to ask for a list of people that do want a decent copy, I'll probably limit it to CD, and investigate VCDs for playing in DVD players.
I would probably only be looking to cover the cost of the disk and postage.
Basically post here if you're willing to pay a bit for a decent copy. Probably looking at around a fiver or something.

I'd be up for that, let me know if and when you are going to do it.

Yup, add me to your list.

me too ;D

Yes please

Count me in.

Yes please.

One for me too please  :D

I only downloaded it yesterday, wow.

You certainly did some miles during the race -  the time lapse dawn shots of the cars coming down from the bridge were great.

Stu

Well, as you are copying, please remind me in that!

Yes please can I have one