Week Four Feb 27th- Mar 2nd

We had an early start on Monday to travel to Ballyhaunis, County Mayo for a customer stories video with Iman Casings. We arrived at the plant around 11.30am, where we were greeted by James Barrett, the food safety manager, and then were taken on a brief tour of the plant. Iman Casings produce the skin of sausages. To our surprise we were told that sausage casings sell for the same price as all the meat inside, so it's a very profitable niche of the butchers trade.

James Barrett

Firstly, we filmed an interview with James, with Philip asking the questions (off camera), then we took footage of the processing plant itself, with James talking us through the production process. 

Then we did an interview with the son of the owner of the plant. He gave us some information on how the business was set up.





James was telling me that he works part time as a hypnotist. He helps people give up smoking, or overeating, or with the anxieties in their lives. This could be fear of flying or other phobias. He asked if I would mind videoing him giving an introduction, for his website, www.hypnosisinmayo.ie
I certainly didn't mind, or maybe he hypnotized me into doing it :)
This is a piece of James' profile on the website. If you click anywhere on James' profile you will be linked to the video footage.

James Barrett is a Hypnotist with many years experience in this field. James worked with John Connolly in Athlone and in 2008 opened the first clinic in Claremorris, Co Mayo. Westport Leisure Centre was opened in 2009. James also has a degree in Food science from UCC.Testiment to the success of the techniques word of mouth referrals were the highest in Irish Hypnosis in 2010. The Claremorris clinic was ranked in the top 3 in the country.James specialised in smoking and weight loss initially and then worked on panic attacks and depression. James is well known for fears and phobias including driving test, fear of needles, public speaking, sports hypnosis and many more. Hypnosis is much more than just a job. James leaves no stone unturned in allowing people get the life that they want.

It generally takes a few hours to transfer the footage from the cameras to the hard drives, so the next morning was taken up doing this. I often wonder how anyone can make deadlines between the amount of time it takes to transfer footage, and then the time the clips take to render during the editing process, followed by the exportation of the final product. 

The next few days were taken up listening to royalty-free music, trying to find something suitable for this project.

you would expect that you could go online and find a piece of suitable music in ten minutes, but there are so many genres of music out there. Not only that, there is a lot of music that you think is right for your project, only to find that it completely changes pace, and doesn't fit at all.