#Bruntsfield Links

[scotianostra]

A very kind guy gave me a camera he no longer need, it;s a proper DSLR, Canon, with a lens that can be added, with super zoom, I need to get the hang of focusing though, was out at Bruntsfield Links today trying it out and a number of the zoom pics are blurry, I think these two came out ok though.

#Edinburgh #scotland #scottish #edinburgh castle #bruntsfield #bruntsfield links #new camera

[embraphotos]

Bruntsfield Links, EH10

#Bruntsfield Links #Bruntsfield #Edinburgh #Scotland #United Kingdom #Street Photography #Photographers on Tumblr #2021

[thomasfilmblog]

Exercise 2

The location I visited was Bruntsfield Links Playpark. While walking through the meadows I came across a park that instantly transported me back to my childhood. Sitting in the deserted park I took in the scene, the weathered equipment, the graffiti covered benches, and the distant sounds of swaying swings and cars. It was an overcast day and the soft light added an eerie atmosphere to the place. 

Being there made me reminisce about simpler times, where I'd play with nerf guns and capture climbing frames as if they were space stations. The wave of nostalgia was powerful, and I realized how many other had shared the same memories in that park and others like it. But there was also a tinge of sadness as I vividly recalled those moments of jumping off swings and stomping up slides. It hit me that I could never go back to those days. My 20 or so minutes in this time capsule prompted me to reflect on my current experiences, living in halls, the routine walk to Merchiston, and more. This place reminded me to make the most of where I am now because one day il look back and be unable to relive these moments.

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[weegiewargamer]

Exercise 2

  The location I visited was Bruntsfield Links Playpark. While walking through the meadows I came across a park that instantly transported me back to my childhood. Sitting in the deserted park I took in the scene, the weathered equipment, the graffiti covered benches, and the distant sounds of swaying swings and cars. It was an overcast day and the soft light added an eerie atmosphere to the place. 

Being there made me reminisce about simpler times, where I'd play with nerf guns and capture climbing frames as if they were space stations. The wave of nostalgia was powerful, and I realized how many other had shared the same memories in that park and others like it. But there was also a tinge of sadness as I vividly recalled those moments of jumping off swings and stomping up slides. It hit me that I could never go back to those days. My 20 or so minutes in this time capsule prompted me to reflect on my current experiences, living in halls, the routine walk to Merchiston, and more. This place reminded me to make the most of where I am now. 

[saoirse-gillespie-film-blog]

Helping on Other Form Shoots

Hazel had asked me to help on the Lifeline shoot as her boom op while she recorded sound. As we’ve worked together before and this has been a good experience I agreed to help out! 

I joined the crew of Lifeline for a test shoot on Monday 27th March which ran from 6pm until around 9pm (for us sound people). Myself and Hazel set up and tested the sound equipment to make sure everything was in working order during this time.

Tuesday the 28th was the first night of shooting. I showed up to the location at Bruntsfield Links for the call time of 7pm and we shot until wrap which was about quarter to 12am. This ran smoothly and I had a lovely time working with Hazel and the entire crew! I helped Hazel set up the lav mics and mic the actors and then boom opped the entirety of the shoot. Hazel gave me a listen to the recordings between takes so we could assess position and level changes if needed. Overall a very good on set experience!

#filmform

[ivanwainwright]

Film Form Critical Reflection

 I am happy with my role of Producer on Lifeline, though I am very aware of the points at which I was at fault. I am not incredibly experienced in the role, so the process was a lot of learning for me.

              Before we began writing, the group faced some disagreement about what outline we wished to adapt. While some argued that Fiontann’s was ideal, Sophie felt far surer of herself to adapt Robbie’s outline into a script. She made a convincing argument, and the group was motivated to change.

              In the pre-production process, I was faced with tasks largely unfamiliar to me, including heavy scheduling, location agreements, the casting process, and group organization. Though my communication with the camera department was lacking, I managed to arrange a schedule for the shoot within a couple days of the final draft of the script. This later proved to be one of the most useful skills I learned while making the film.

              Location scouting was difficult, there were many suggestions from the group, but ultimately John found an ideal area by Bruntsfield Links. This would necessitate shooting on a weekday to minimise busyness, as well as discussion of the logistics of shooting on parkland. I managed this by ensuring that at all points no crew or cast would set foot on the Links, thus negating the need to acquire location agreements from the council. For the party scene, we elected to shoot at India’s flat, which was a ground floor location. The issues in the location process were largely around technical problems; though we were able to scout at the phone booth location fine, we did not schedule for a scout at the flat.

              Casting was a good experience, and I think it will help me in further directorial projects to have been on the producing end of the process now. We received a good number of auditions, and eventually decided on two very talented actors. The crew were enthusiastic with them, and India coordinated costumes very well. We called them in for a read through in the week before shooting, though Michael (the older actor) could not make it and phoned instead, but this arrangement helped me get to know them and arrange specifics for scheduling on set. We also cast Kyle from our course in an additional role.

              As we approached the shoot, we realised that the previous schedule was unsustainable without having scouted India’s flat well, so we added an additional night on the shoot to allow for an additional recce day. The extra day was very useful, and I am glad that I put it into the schedule. The fact that we managed to arrange it is a testament to the communication skills that we attempted to build as a group.

              It was at this point that we coordinated additional crew as well, recruiting five additional crew members. They would all prove to be invaluable on set, and the shoot would not have been possible without them. As a producer, the larger crew posed some issues with forms and permissions, but I was happy to fulfill this in exchange for the help on set.

              The first day recce was key in establishing a coherent reschedule for the following days. The second day was more stressful, though in the first AD role that I took on set I was able to manage the pace to something comfortable. Issues mostly arose in rearrangement and adding shots from DOP and director without first running this by me, which would have been useful, but once I pulled them aside to discuss plans, we managed to correct this. I was very happy with the third day, and John’s editing process meant that all notes for pickups were easily available and scheduled ahead of time. The final shoot day was equally smooth, a little shorter than the others. We had to reshoot and relocate a bit more to accommodate the busy foot traffic in the area, but it was nothing unmanageable.

              In post-production, I attempted to coordinate the editing process, though this was by far the area of producing I know the least about. I wish that it was here that I had made myself more involved, and it is a testament to John as editor and Hazel as sound designer that without my producing skills being especially developed they managed to turn out a strong product.

              The overall skill that the making of Lifeline taught me is one of group coherency; most issues that arose in the process were ones where the group were uncoordinated or in disagreement, and the places that I excelled and fell behind in my producing were the places where I was able or unable to provide a driving voice towards coherency.

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[hazelsbilmflog]

Sound Tech Recce (01/03/23)

On the 1st March, our group (Lifeline) held a lighting rehearsal/sound tech recce at our location, a telephone box on Bruntsfield Links. As HoD of sound, my objective for this was to practise using the MixPre’s Advanced Mode, in which you can use multiple mics to create a polywav.

After a massive upheaval of equipment, we finally made it to Bruntsfield Links. As other set up lighting and camera kit, I worked on getting the boom set up - which proved slightly more difficult considering we forgot to book the boom pole… lolz In the end it was fine, as Ivan humbly stepped into the role of human boom pole. After this, I synced and set up the radio mic, fitting this on to our stand-in, Sophie. The rest of my night was spent getting comfortable adjusting the gains of individual tracks in Advanced mode, soloing these etc.

Once home, I transferred the sound files onto my computer and opened them up in ProTools. Here, I tried to checkerboard and decipher which track was what mic by listening. Overall, I feel very prepared for the shoot and excited to push myself beyond my comfort zone in terms of both sound recording and design!

[usasportsworld]

The list of the oldest golf clubs in the world

The list of the oldest golf clubs in the world

We are talking about circles, not paths, and there is a substantial difference. The clubs, over time, can change location, and in fact it has happened, as we will see. The reference territory, clearly, is located beyond the English Channel. Golf club, list Royal Burgess Golfing Society (1735) Founded in 1733 in Edinburgh, it began its activity in 1735 on the Bruntsfield Links course, consisting…

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[one-punch-gran]

edinburgh, scotland 15/09/2020

#photography #photos #edinburgh #Scotland #bruntsfield links #church #landscape #aesthetic #grainy #night #view #mine

[coolitoff]

26 January 2019 - Gloomy Runs 

I’m finally getting back into running, which is good because I need to get ready for the half-marathon in May! (It seems like it���s really far away, but I haven’t run more than 3 miles in months, so it will definitely be a hard 18 weeks). One of my favorite things about running in Edinburgh is all of the green spaces – on the left is the Bruntsfield Links, and the other two photos are Holyrood Park. When I start going on longer runs I’ll be able to run down to Portobello and have lovely beach views, so I’m looking forward to that!

#edinburgh #scotland #holyrood park #bruntsfield links #st. Margaret's loch #arthur's seat #studyabroad #running views #running

[bantarleton]

A view of Edinburgh just after the 1746 Jacobite Rising by British Army cartographer and artist Paul Sandby, specifically showing a horse fair taking place at the Bruntsfield Links.

#history #edinburgh #scotland #art #18th century #jacobite #jacobites #1746

[scotianostra]

Castle over the rooftops

Eddinburgh Ccastle as seen from Leamington Walk on Bruntsfield Links today.

#scotland #scttish #brunstfield #edinburgh castle #my pic

[embraphotos]

Bruntsfield Links, EH10

#Bruntsfield Links #Bruntsfield #Edinburgh #Scotland #United Kingdom #Street Photography #Photographers on Tumblr #2021

[almadelirante]

“Resting-state brain information flow predicts cognitive flexibility in humans” - (Chèn et al., 2019) (at Bruntsfield Links) https://www.instagram.com/p/CHFLqRALA7s/?igshid=10b6nn28dlavj

[ninasgalaxystuff]

Goodbye Edinburgh...

So, heute ist mein letzter ganzer Tag hier in der schönsten Stadt der Welt. Das Buchen des Rückfluges war zwar eine heftige Odyssee (an die, bei denen ich mich darüber noch nicht aufgeregt habe: mein Flug wurde mehrfach gestrichen und am Ende stellte sich heraus, dass nach Hannover sowieso garkeine Flüge fliegen zur Zeit...) aber am Ende konnte ich einen KLM-Flug von Edinburgh nach Amsterdam ergattern, wo mich meine Familie dann abholt. Wennnn sie denn über die Grenze kommen. Und fallls mein Flug morgen fliegt. Ja, ich traue dem Braten immernoch nicht so ganz... Und außerdem kann ich mir einfach nicht vorstellen, nicht mehr hier in dem Dachzimmer (in dem zur Zeit die 30 Grad warme Luft so dick steht, dass man sie zerschneiden könnte) im Herzen der Stadt bei einer fantastischen Gastfamilie mit (meistens) super süßen Kindern zu Wohnen!

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Gestern Abend habe ich mich das letzte Mal mit Emily und Noemi getroffen, die erst im Laufe der nächsten Wochen nach hause fahren. Ich bin schon ziemlich traurig, dass auf unserer „To Do- Liste“ noch so viel stehen geblieben ist (Danke für nichts, Corona 🙄), aber wir hatten echt eine fantastische Zeit und planen jetzt schon unsere Reunion.

Wenn ich so darüber nachdenke, verging meine Zeit hier doch gefühlt schneller, als die „Concorde“ von London nach New York flog. Ich hab aber super viel gelernt, zum Beispiel, dass der Golfplatz in den Bruntsfield links (direkt gegenüber) einer von Europas 1. Golfplätzen und in Großbritannien sogar der allererste war! Und dass der große Platz vor dem Edinburgh Castle tatsächlich Kanadischer Boden ist... Dort musste nämlich eine Zeremonie abgehalten werden, die traditioneller Weise nur in Kanada ausgeführt werden darf, weswegen man sich einfach entschloss, den Platz zu Kanadischem Grund zu erklären. Ich war also sogar in Kanada!

Es gibt hier ao vieles zu entdecken und jeden Tag sehe und lerne ich etwas neues, weswegen es noch trauriger ist, dass diese Zeit morgen endet. Trotzdem plane ich, auf jeden fall und spätestens nächsten sommer zurück zu kommen. So schnell werden die Schotten mich nicht los!

Jetzt muss ich aber wieder in die Küche, denn Izzy und ich haben einen Mixed-Berry-Pie gebacken, der aus dem Ofen muss. Außerdem hab ich Jamie versprochen, ein letztes mal mit ihm Minecraft zu spielen... ich werd die beiden echt vermissen. Nur vielleicht das Dudelsackspielen morgens um 7 an Samstagen nicht. Darauf kann ich wohl ganz gut verzichten!

An alle zuhause: morgen kommt das Chaos zurück! Also versteckt die Schokolade und das Eis, denn bei den angesagten 31 Grad werden die wohl dann als erste auf wundersame Weise verschwinden...

Auf gepackten Koffern, mit Berry Pie und nem X-Box-Controler zum letzten mal Grüße aus Schottland,

Eure Nina

[one-1-year-gone]

Day one hundred and ninety-five (195)

Friday, friday... how does the song go? Anyway the weekend is here, but before that I nearly got blown off the school in the morning. Also got damped with rain.

I once again realised that I really need to revise for maths and in Biology we wrote a surprise test, bc our teacher got pissed at our class. Can't blame her tbh. Thankfully I just read over the notes the period before that and I got one hundred (100) percent. Haha, it was just a C-level test though...

In French Viviane and I essentially chatted for fifty (50) minutes and that was it.

It took me a bloody eternity to get home, quarter past one (13.15) I was home!

And I was out of the house again by two (2) I wanted to go see Morningside, so I took the thirty-six (36) there and gotta say, that bus drives through some posh neighbourhoods, that'd be nice living there.

I tried to go shopping in the many charity shops there, but I was really just not feeling it, so I let it go.

I went into Waitrose for the first time, it's like a Marks and Spencer, maybe even a bit more fancier. I also bought Malted Milk biscuits bc I wanted to know how they tasted. They are kinda salty?

Anywhooo I walked all the way from Bruntsfield Links (btw really nice area, I have to come back and explore it a bit more) to Fountainbridge (there is a quay? I didn't take a closer look, but there are boats?) and then to Haymarket, where I took the bus home. I walked quite a bit today, my phone says over ten thousand (10'000) steps and seven (7) kilometer.

Now it has been a week since Claudia has gone home and it was weird in the beginning, but I think I've already become used to being on my own now. Maybe it's a bit early to already make a conclusion but it's ok. It's a lot quieter, not that Claudia has made a lot of noise, but it's something different with someone else in the room.

I watched all of Pauline's dramas today and wow, EastEnders didn't have to finish like that.

So, tomorrow there is this brain competition for which I have revised zero (0) hours. But there's a free lunch and tour of the anatomical museum, I won't miss out on this.

In the evening there's Mireia's birthday party, eventhough she'll turn eighteen (18) on Monday. I'm sure it'll be great fun though.

Have a nice weekend lads.

#scotland #scottish #scotia #exchange student #exchange year #exchange #edinburgh #host student #year abroad #swiss girl in scotland #travel blog #travel #daily blog