Alan Taylor's Reel

Introducing Dusty the black and white cat, I take a look at what he gets up to in his spare time by following him with a camera. My Cat also known as Dusty was a funny creature indeed. I caught him inside the bathroom sink getting up to mischief. Dusty liked to walk across the top of cars and play suicide in the middle of the road. Sadly, that's how his life ended after he was ran over by a car. I loved Dusty, he was my friend. It was like having a loyal companion beside you that you could...

Short travel video vlog of my charity walk along part of Hadrian's Wall for raising money for Nepali children as part of a Rotary sponsored walk. After completing my Rotary Youth Leadership Award, I took part in a charity walk across a segment of Hadrians Wall to raise money for young women in Nepal who need special care. I managed to raise £200 from local friends and neighbours which was a big help. The experience of the walk really came about while I was doing my Gold Duke of Edinburgh...

Highlights of the 2007 Royal Highland Show that takes place every year at Ingliston, Edinburgh featuring livestock on show, birds of prey talks, sheep sheering and food tasting. The Royal Highalnd Show is held by the Royal Highland and Agricultural Society of Scotland, founded in 1784 to promote the regeneration of rural Scotland. Occupying almost a three hundred acre site right next to Edinburgh Airport on the western fringe of Scotland's Capital City, the event is an annual 'must' for the...

This is an experimental video which I made as part of an exercise for college which included gathering shots associated with the title 'ecology'. Ecology is the scientific study of interactions among organisms and their environment, such as the interactions organisms have with each other and with their abioticenvironment. Topics of interest to ecologists include the diversity, distribution, amount (biomass), number (population) of organisms, as well as competition between them within and...

Deleted scene from the film I made called Mind of Obsession, a scene I wanted to include but during filming on location no sound was recorded! It should have made it into the film. Video Shot on Panasonic DV100 SD 16:9 Anamorphic Mind of Obsession has been my most ambitious short film project to date, filmed in Spring and Summer, 2008. It is a spoof running 30 minutes which I produced for my HNC Graded Unit on the Jewel & Esk College Film & Television production course, now known as...

Highlights from Edinburgh's Christmas Festival featuring the Torchlight procession, Nigt Afoire International, One O'clock gun race and a live Cellidh. Edinburgh is a great place to visit in the winter period in addition to it's beautiful surroundings in the summer. The Christmas Festival plays host to the annual torchlight procession starting on the famous Mound, making it's way to Calton Hill. Another feature of the festival is the Night Afoire international, a mixture of live cellidh and...

A short film that was produced by first year college students at Jewel and Esk College in 2007 as part of one of their first exercises to get familiar with the camera. Jewel and Esk College was a further education college in the Lothians in Scotland. It had two campuses, located at Milton Road in Edinburgh and at Eskbank, Dalkeith, Midlothian. In October 2012 the college merged with Edinburgh's other two FE colleges (Telford College and Stevenson College) to form a new entity called Edinburgh...

In August, 2007 as part of my Scottish Duke of Edinburgh Award Residential section, I traveled to the RYLA camp at Abernethy Ardeonaig, Perthshire. RYLA stands for Rotary Youth Leadership Award which is a course designed as a program for youth to turn you into a better leader and build your team building skills, organized by The Rotary International clubs. It was one of the best experiences ever and I will never forget it. I was sponsored by my club Rotary district Portobello. When we...

During my BA TV course at Scottish Edinburgh Napier University, Scotland I did some presenting exercises where I had my first experience of doing a piece to camera as a Presenter. At first, I felt quite nervous with people watching and staring which made me feel a bit like an idiot but I knew it was all part of the process so the gradually got better throughout. The piece was on the environment and how to be green with recycling and waste management. One of the things I find tricky when...

Live coverage of the 2007 Edinburgh Military Tattoo event.