Create powerful promotional videos with your smartphone, and then upload to YouTube to maximize your rankings on Google.
www.bescene.digital
About Us
Sheena - digital marketing
Originally from Los Angeles, Sheena has over 15 years in the digital marketing industry. She spent her first few years building financial institution websites and learning about digital marketing channels.
Sheena moved to London in 2003, where she worked primarily as an email marketing consultant, and became passionate about B2C and B2B communications for all stages of the customer and client life cycle.
After moving to Australia in 2011, and with a new perspective on the social media landscape, Sheena has focused her efforts on the evolution of email marketing and the ever-growing importance of client retention through a more effective platform – video marketing.
Adam - video production
Originally from Sydney, Adam has over 15 years in the photography and film industry. He started his career in the professional wake board industry where he won awards for best photographs and films.
Though still interested in filming water sports, Adam has now moved on to the corporate world where he has worked for many large brands such as: Porsche, Jeep, Rip Curl, Sportscraft and Target...just to name a few.
Adam has a keen eye for detail and is highly regarded by his peers with his camera, lighting and sound capturing skills. He is also a video editor, which helps him direct scenes and create a professional video with high production values.
Create powerful promotional videos with your smartphone, and then upload to YouTube to maximize your rankings on Google.
www.bescene.digital
About Us
Sheena - digital marketing
Originally from Los Angeles, Sheena has over 15 years in the digital marketing industry. She spent her first few years building financial institution websites and learning about digital marketing channels.
Sheena moved to London in 2003, where she worked primarily as an email marketing consultant, and became passionate about B2C and B2B communications for all stages of the customer and client life cycle.
After moving to Australia in 2011, and with a new perspective on the social media landscape, Sheena has focused her efforts on the evolution of email marketing and the ever-growing importance of client retention through a more effective platform – video marketing.
Adam - video production
Originally from Sydney, Adam has over 15 years in the photography and film industry. He started his career in the professional wake board industry where he won awards for best photographs and films.
Though still interested in filming water sports, Adam has now moved on to the corporate world where he has worked for many large brands such as: Porsche, Jeep, Rip Curl, Sportscraft and Target...just to name a few.
Adam has a keen eye for detail and is highly regarded by his peers with his camera, lighting and sound capturing skills. He is also a video editor, which helps him direct scenes and create a professional video with high production values.
Evaluation Question 6 and 7)
6) What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?
7) Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?
Evaluation Question 6 and 7)
6) What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?
7) Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?
Transcript: Selling digital books in 2024: Insights from industry leaders - T...BookNet Canada
The publishing industry has been selling digital audiobooks and ebooks for over a decade and has found its groove. What’s changed? What has stayed the same? Where do we go from here? Join a group of leading sales peers from across the industry for a conversation about the lessons learned since the popularization of digital books, best practices, digital book supply chain management, and more.
Link to video recording: https://bnctechforum.ca/sessions/selling-digital-books-in-2024-insights-from-industry-leaders/
Presented by BookNet Canada on May 28, 2024, with support from the Department of Canadian Heritage.
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 4DianaGray10
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The UiPath Test Manager overview with SAP heatmap webinar offers a concise yet comprehensive exploration of the role of a Test Manager within SAP environments, coupled with the utilization of heatmaps for effective testing strategies.
Participants will gain insights into the responsibilities, challenges, and best practices associated with test management in SAP projects. Additionally, the webinar delves into the significance of heatmaps as a visual aid for identifying testing priorities, areas of risk, and resource allocation within SAP landscapes. Through this session, attendees can expect to enhance their understanding of test management principles while learning practical approaches to optimize testing processes in SAP environments using heatmap visualization techniques
What will you get from this session?
1. Insights into SAP testing best practices
2. Heatmap utilization for testing
3. Optimization of testing processes
4. Demo
Topics covered:
Execution from the test manager
Orchestrator execution result
Defect reporting
SAP heatmap example with demo
Speaker:
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
Smart TV Buyer Insights Survey 2024 by 91mobiles.pdf91mobiles
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Search and Society: Reimagining Information Access for Radical FuturesBhaskar Mitra
The field of Information retrieval (IR) is currently undergoing a transformative shift, at least partly due to the emerging applications of generative AI to information access. In this talk, we will deliberate on the sociotechnical implications of generative AI for information access. We will argue that there is both a critical necessity and an exciting opportunity for the IR community to re-center our research agendas on societal needs while dismantling the artificial separation between the work on fairness, accountability, transparency, and ethics in IR and the rest of IR research. Instead of adopting a reactionary strategy of trying to mitigate potential social harms from emerging technologies, the community should aim to proactively set the research agenda for the kinds of systems we should build inspired by diverse explicitly stated sociotechnical imaginaries. The sociotechnical imaginaries that underpin the design and development of information access technologies needs to be explicitly articulated, and we need to develop theories of change in context of these diverse perspectives. Our guiding future imaginaries must be informed by other academic fields, such as democratic theory and critical theory, and should be co-developed with social science scholars, legal scholars, civil rights and social justice activists, and artists, among others.
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I have heard many times that architecture is not important for the front-end. Also, many times I have seen how developers implement features on the front-end just following the standard rules for a framework and think that this is enough to successfully launch the project, and then the project fails. How to prevent this and what approach to choose? I have launched dozens of complex projects and during the talk we will analyze which approaches have worked for me and which have not.
Accelerate your Kubernetes clusters with Varnish CachingThijs Feryn
A presentation about the usage and availability of Varnish on Kubernetes. This talk explores the capabilities of Varnish caching and shows how to use the Varnish Helm chart to deploy it to Kubernetes.
This presentation was delivered at K8SUG Singapore. See https://feryn.eu/presentations/accelerate-your-kubernetes-clusters-with-varnish-caching-k8sug-singapore-28-2024 for more details.
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Neuro-symbolic (NeSy) AI is on the rise. However, simply machine learning on just any symbolic structure is not sufficient to really harvest the gains of NeSy. These will only be gained when the symbolic structures have an actual semantics. I give an operational definition of semantics as “predictable inference”.
All of this illustrated with link prediction over knowledge graphs, but the argument is general.
Dev Dives: Train smarter, not harder – active learning and UiPath LLMs for do...UiPathCommunity
💥 Speed, accuracy, and scaling – discover the superpowers of GenAI in action with UiPath Document Understanding and Communications Mining™:
See how to accelerate model training and optimize model performance with active learning
Learn about the latest enhancements to out-of-the-box document processing – with little to no training required
Get an exclusive demo of the new family of UiPath LLMs – GenAI models specialized for processing different types of documents and messages
This is a hands-on session specifically designed for automation developers and AI enthusiasts seeking to enhance their knowledge in leveraging the latest intelligent document processing capabilities offered by UiPath.
Speakers:
👨🏫 Andras Palfi, Senior Product Manager, UiPath
👩🏫 Lenka Dulovicova, Product Program Manager, UiPath
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In this presentation, we examine the challenges and limitations of relying too heavily on PHP frameworks in web development. We discuss the history of PHP and its frameworks to understand how this dependence has evolved. The focus will be on providing concrete tips and strategies to reduce reliance on these frameworks, based on real-world examples and practical considerations. The goal is to equip developers with the skills and knowledge to create more flexible and future-proof web applications. We'll explore the importance of maintaining autonomy in a rapidly changing tech landscape and how to make informed decisions in PHP development.
This talk is aimed at encouraging a more independent approach to using PHP frameworks, moving towards a more flexible and future-proof approach to PHP development.
Connector Corner: Automate dynamic content and events by pushing a buttonDianaGray10
Here is something new! In our next Connector Corner webinar, we will demonstrate how you can use a single workflow to:
Create a campaign using Mailchimp with merge tags/fields
Send an interactive Slack channel message (using buttons)
Have the message received by managers and peers along with a test email for review
But there’s more:
In a second workflow supporting the same use case, you’ll see:
Your campaign sent to target colleagues for approval
If the “Approve” button is clicked, a Jira/Zendesk ticket is created for the marketing design team
But—if the “Reject” button is pushed, colleagues will be alerted via Slack message
Join us to learn more about this new, human-in-the-loop capability, brought to you by Integration Service connectors.
And...
Speakers:
Akshay Agnihotri, Product Manager
Charlie Greenberg, Host
1. What have you learnt about
technologies from the process
of constructing this product?
2. What I would do with the benefit of hindsight?
Filming
1. Improve zooming in and out. It was very hard to zoom while filming; so next time film, pause the action at the intended focus, then
zoom, then continue.
2. Steer away from seemingly random music just to go in the background as sound can drastically distort the viewing experience. Also
no swearing in the middle of acting because half the time it turned out to be a good shot despite the acting.
Props/Lights
1. Book out more to enhance the filming quality.
2. Stock up on batteries. Those little LED lights are effective for 15 minutes then after that the iPhone utility light is better.
3. More realistic props / Mise-en-scene. It looked pretty stupid the antagonist shooting someone without gloves on, so paying more
attention to mise-en-scne and not trying to cut corners would be a good idea in hindsight.
Editing
1. more attention to after effects.
2. Editing out fake parts of gun barrel to make it look more realistic, in turn making the metaphor of Magnum being told through a gun
barrel easily comprehendible
3. What I know now that I didn’t know before?
Editing:
1. Is actually more important than filming as it can enhance the filming quality anyway. I naturally thought
filming was more important until I realized the possibilities that premier pro has. Evidence being the
black/white effect to signify a flashback.
Props:
1. Lighting can make or break a scene. The fixation of lights is needed to highlight a focal point. The lighting
coinciding with a zoom and a suitable camera shot will attract the audiences attention, therefore giving
lighting the power to sway the audiences interpretation of the shot.
Filming
1. Cameras lie to you. They sell you the dream of your picture having adequate light then you import the scene
into Premier Pro and it’s as if no external light except street lights were used at all.
2. Time will creep up on you. It seems during dialogue and filming the certain scene isn’t actually that long.
However when you are; crossing streets trying to answer the phone to your detective superior whilst trying to
hold a newspaper and drink eggnog you’ll find something you thought will be a detriment to characterization
of the protagonist is actually seven minutes long… and above all pointless.
4. What advice would I pass on?
Whatever you do please refrain from random sound tracks to
fill time
Don’t leave After Effects till last minute because it takes a
surprising amount of time and if that time is allowed it can
really create something resplendent.
Do not procrastinate on filming schedule. Just get it over and
done with because editing tends to take longer.
Pick typical English weather for continuity
5. What are the advantages/disadvantages of different
technology used - Editing
Garage band:
Quality issues/possibilities: Had water droplet and police siren effect which we used to benefit – Advantage / Possibilities were slim
considering our theme and my meticulous nature. Couldn’t find the low tone, low tempo piano track I was looking for. Plus on a mac
creating a beat without a keyboard plug-in is virtually impossible – Disadvantage.
Ease of use: It was impossible to create a beat because your mouse/hands can't move fast enough to press the piano and loop it at the same
time. - Disadvantage
Premier Pro:
It was actually really easy to edit considering lessening footage and putting footage in. - Advantage
Rendering was too long for my impatient mind. - Disadvantage
Possibilities wise does the job however the quality of it is arguable. At the end of the day we have effective titles, however inevitably using
After Effects would be much better for this. - Both
Flexibilities worked to an advantage as well, this is evident in the order change of the sequence appeasing both the audience and ourselves.
After effects:
Ease of use: Verging on impossible, it was far too time consuming. We explored the possibility of creating the production companies label on
After Effects and it turned into a ribbon and an energy ball, it’s fair to say it was a failure. - Disadvantage
Quality Issues: None, it would have been perfect if we used it. – Advantage
E-Creative possibilities: The possibilities were perfect suited to my ideal titles – Advantage
6. What are the advantages and disadvantages of different
technology used - Filming
Camera:
Quality Issues: The little HD cameras did the job but nothing too special. The quality was sufficient. – Both/ Naturally a camera is no where
near the quality of the human eye so there were major lighting problems due to misinterpretation when put into premier pro. -
Disadvantage
Ease of use: It was impossible for me to zoom and zoom out, well for me anyway – Disadvantage
Handling Issues: Fit loosely on the tripod and was hard to track along – Disadvantage / Due to being small the camera was easy considering
portability - Advantage
Tripod:
Ease of use/Quality Issues: Very misleading. You’d think it would be easy to move a camera left and right, but no, it was far from. In fact the
main camera man found filming easier handheld - Disadvantage
Handling Issues/Portability: Unfortunately due to the location my team had to carry one or two tripod(s) on two buses and lug them around
my estate which was both uncomfortable and the constant fear of them sliding down their place of rest and breaking into a million
pieces as scary. – Disadvantage
Flexibility/Creative possibilities: It had different variations in height which worked effectively to do worms eye view shots. – Advantage
Health and Safety: Sometimes it would slide off the wall and fall on your foot but it’s not like that’s a real problem. – Neither really
7. What are the advantages and disadvantages of different
technology used - Props
Lights:
Quality Issues: Due to environment and location we needed around 4 LED lights
and it wasn’t even near what was needed, it was merely useable. However it did
work to our advantage as it made sure not to lose the dark/gritty feeling of our
film consequently adding to the conventions of the genre. – Both
Portability/Flexibility: They are small however an awkward shape so at times they
got annoying to carry around. - Both
Ease of use: You’d think using lights is easy but it’s actually an intricate technique
of perfect planning and fixation. Yet if done well works well. – Both
Health and safety: Only a real moron can hurt themselves with an LED light.
However shining them in Niro’s face too much led to deterioration of his eyes
and him thinking it’s raining all the time. - Advantage
8. What could I have done but
didn’t
Putting a CCTV effect on the progression of the antagonist to the interrogation
scene would be niche, thus making our sequence stand out due to variety and
add more marks due to use of effects. However we left this possibility too late
and didn’t get to capitalize on the gold mine of an opportunity.
Due to time we couldn’t use Adobe Photoshop to edit out the barrel of the gun.
Due to being a plastic toy Magnum .44 replica it had a cross in the middle of
the gun, which can confuse the metaphor of the sequence being told through
the eye of the gun barrel.
Unfortunately we we’re running out of time and couldn’t properly explore
more specified titles with After Effects as Premier Pro have notoriously bad
titles. So we ended up with pretty basic titles, however they suit the theme being
grey like the colour of a magnum.
Used sound to a better advantage. Instead of throwing on a looped emotional
piano (which sounds pretty misguided and pointless) it would have been better
to bridge over visuals with a police siren, traffic or maybe just normal
prerecorded environmental sounds.