job for an Island Caretaker<\/a>. Even though it’s only for 6 months, I’d love to do this. So I needed to make it happen. But I needed to put together a video. Only problems … 1) I’d not put together a video before and 2) I haven’t got a movie camera.<\/p>\nNow I figured that Andy talking to a webcam would have limited appeal, so I dragged my mate Paul and his camcorder down to Sutton Park to do some location shots. I was going to include photos of me actually diving there, but the January session was cancelled and today’s the next chance – this is the closing date for applications, so it would have been leaving it a bit late!<\/p>\n
As luck would have it, we had a cold snap a couple of weeks later, so I took the opportunity for a follow up.<\/p>\n
My obvious “selling point” is that I can take pretty reasonable photos underwater. This is something that takes time, practice, being able to work with the software, and some quite expensive toys.<\/p>\n
This was where the move to the Apple Mac (at the start of January) came good, because the (installed as standard) iMovie software is really pretty accessible to a complete beginner. It also makes it pretty easy to make (static) images quite dynamic. I did wait until the iLife ’09 version was delivered, then put together a first cut.<\/p>\n
In the meantime, I realised my Gallery album was waaay out-of-date – missing out (for starters) everything I’ve done with a DSLR. So I’ve been getting on with redeveloping that (there’ll be another entry on that before long) … hopefully, there’ll be a new one will be along in the next week or two.<\/p>\n
(The only thing that was disappointing was that I had to get a USB microphone – the standard headsets apparently work at the wrong level).<\/p>\n
Two more iterations later and I was ready to upload. Apparently, that got knocked about in the ether, so I eventually managed to resend it with just two days to go.<\/p>\n
Queensland Tourism have apparently been blown away by the interest they’ve had. I’d actually guessed very early on that there’s be about 20,000 applications, and that’s not far away.<\/p>\n
So (phew) it’s there now. You can see it by clicking on this link<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"… all about putting together my Application for the “Best Job in the World” in Queensland<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[61,94,95],"class_list":["post-335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-assorted-rants","tag-great-barrier-reef","tag-island-caretaker","tag-queensland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/muttznutz.net\/muttzblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/muttznutz.net\/muttzblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/muttznutz.net\/muttzblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/muttznutz.net\/muttzblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/muttznutz.net\/muttzblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=335"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/muttznutz.net\/muttzblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":342,"href":"https:\/\/muttznutz.net\/muttzblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335\/revisions\/342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/muttznutz.net\/muttzblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/muttznutz.net\/muttzblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/muttznutz.net\/muttzblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}