{"id":3050,"date":"2010-12-14T17:05:40","date_gmt":"2010-12-14T16:05:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www2.imperial.ac.uk\/videoarchive\/?p=3050"},"modified":"2024-10-22T09:51:13","modified_gmt":"2024-10-22T08:51:13","slug":"30-years-ago-this-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/videoarchive\/30-years-ago-this-week\/","title":{"rendered":"30 years ago this week&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_3053\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3053\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"wp-image-3053 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/videoarchive\/files\/2010\/12\/bob-office2-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Office of the Professional 1980\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3053\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Office of the Professional 1980<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>This is an additional and brief entry to mark the recording of a video I made 30 years ago this very week. The video was &#8220;The Office of the Professional&#8221; made with, and for, Professor Bob Spence from Electrical Engineering. You&#8217;ll find this video and others\u00a0 in the section about Bob&#8217;s work, but I thought it worth repeating. I saw Bob recently and we both recalled the making of the video and how complicated it was. For example, the various TV screens seen running were in fact fed from different video players, so making these all run in sync was not easy. In fact, along with the recorder that was actually recording the video from the camera, we had 3 machines all needing to be run at the same time. This was early days for us and our colour camera (yes camera, as we had only one) which needed a lot of light to give good pictures<strong>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/vCm9ym6D1Oc?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-GB&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/div>\n<p>The video was shot during this week in December 1980 and edited, after the Christmas holiday, in January 1981. Bill Buxton in his 2007 book Sketching User Experiences is quoted as saying, in reference to the video that this &#8220;is the first example of an envisionment video that I am aware of&#8221; and that it was &#8220;remarkable for its insights&#8221;. As I have already detailed in the previous full entry about Bob, the office desk that was constructed was faced in cardboard and green felt. One oversight was perhaps the telephones, we never attempted to change these to anything futuristic, so they look a bit odd now. The video also captures parts of the college long since changed and Alumni may remember: the main entrance, the steps and the original walkway going towards Electrical Engineering. These shots were taken on a dark and wet December afternoon back in 1980.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Professor Robert Spence, passed away on Friday 20th September 2024, at the age of 91.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Colin Grimshaw December 2010<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Office of the Professional was shot during this week in December 1980 and edited,after the Christmas holiday, in January 1981.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[79,80,81,390],"tags":[84,18467],"class_list":["post-3050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campus","category-people","category-research","category-technology","tag-electrical-engineering","tag-tv-studio"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>30 years ago this week... - 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