It’s the end of August, which means that London’s big summer event is in full swing: the Notting Hill Carnival. Will the weather hold? Or will the heavens rain on the enthusiasm of a million aficionados determined to have fun?

I won’t go to Carnival this year. I am not a fan of huge crowds. Still, I decided to brave the tourist hordes and visit Big Ben after having made the acquaintance of Little Ben in the most surprising of places. Have a look:

I had tons of fun making this video. Well, except for the day I set off to video Big Ben and arrived exactly 1 minute after 12noon because the Tube was held up. D’OH!! 🙂

I basically used a lot of the free tools I gave you in an earlier blog post. If you don’t have them yet, head over to my video survey, fill in the very brief questionnaire and receive the Free Resources report with my compliments. You’ll also find my How-To-Create-Videos ebook there if you want it. It’s free, too.

For this video, I used a couple of tools that I have not yet added to the two reports. I downloaded the soundtrack (free) from iStockphoto.com. Creating an account with iStockphoto is free. Every month they give away free media – I make a habit of visiting the site regularly and downloading what I like. I also buy media there, but this time I didn’t need to.

Another free tool I used to edit my MP4 video clips of Big Ben and Little Ben is “VideoPad Video Editor Software.” After I had edited them, I saved the clips as WMV files, and then compiled the final version in Windows Movie Maker 2.6. Incidentally, you can use Videopad also just for file conversion.

If you have any questions or comments, I’d love to hear from you. And should you encounter Little Ben in other far flung places, PLEASE, let me know.

Here are the links again:
http://maxalter.com/video/fear-of-video-can-you-help/ (for the free reports)
http://www.istockphoto.com/
http://www.nchsoftware.com/videopad/index.html