It’s been a little bit quiet on the blog front, lately – but that’s not because I’ve not been out scouting locations since the last post in August. I’d had the idea for a while that I’d like to expand from a still photo & blog posting format to making location films for a YouTube channel; well, finally – I’ve put that into action!
The new channel can be found at https://www.youtube.com/@Sweenealogy
There’s one location video up at present – the first half of a trip I did back in October around Fulham, West Brompton and Chelsea; the video of the second half of this trip should be coming very soon.
I’ve also filmed material from a subsequent location trip in December ’23, which took in an arc from Bayswater to Clerkenwell, via Edgeware, Primrose Hill and King’s Cross. I will be working on the videos from this trip once the ‘Fulham & West Brompton Part 2’ video is published; however, there may be a bit of a snag with that one in that some of the footage I’d intended to use under ‘Fair Use’ law is initially blocked from YouTube by the copyright holder (Fremantle Media). I’m pretty confident that I have a decent Fair Use case – I’m not publishing significant portions of the footage compared to their entire run time, I’ve changed the ‘purpose’ from narrative storytelling to a documentary on the changing face of London, I’m using it to educate and inform – etc. However, the AI sitting behind the YouTube publishing engine just matches content to a database and says “nope” – so I may have to jump through some hoops to get the next videos up. Either that or, worst case, I’ll have to drastically trim the video and then work on more locations that aren’t from blocked episodes (it seems to be particularly episodes from seasons 3 and 4 that are blocked).
As to the future of written blog posts and still photo comparisons – I’m still hoping to keep these going, including writing up the recent trips that are the subjects of videos so far. It’ll just be a case of when I can actually fit that in!
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