Wet, Wet Wet...

The recent 3 weeks of wet weather which I had hoped would generate better order levels after the blistering 3 weeks of early May,  has not had any noticeable impact. Full of a head cold as I type after cutting up some wind fallen beech and getting soaked over several consecutive days the glorious summer looks some way off as yet.

Website hit rates continue to bob along the 8 - 10 hits a day on the Fan-C pages - pretty good as far as the website hits goes, but conversion of hits to orders now has to be the focus. The Twitter @Thefan_Ce tweets now use the www.stovetopfan.co.uk reference which is re-directed to the existing pages in the hope that it is a more memorable website address than the actual location, buried as it is 3 levels down.

			Paul Morgans of Peak Films , a friend and client, has offered to come over and help put together a professional promotional video for the website and Fan-C - which is a great opportunity. I have started to put together a 'story board' of the sequences so at the least we have a starting point to frame up and work with. This includes what I hope will be some 'sexy' looking close up panning shots of the components that go into the product. I hope I have use of my nose by then in the event of any 'voice overs' !
			This generated a few ideas for me to see what I could do with what I had, that is to say, some product still shots and Windows Movie Maker. After about 90 minutes work I came up with the following sequence. Which given I had not used the software I think just goes to show how good software is now at making a job intuitive. Additionally, a quick search on YouTube and a few minutes watching tutorials I was up and and away.
			For next time, I will try to get a music sequence which I can trim to the movie in the software rather than adding it in via YouTube which will not allow trimming / editing of  these file types.