Dan Crowther

My Portfolio

Welcome to my website - why is it here?

Welcome to my website. The aim of this website is to try and showcase who I am and where I am going with my video projects both personally and at College so you can get a feel of my journey with video I want to share with people the technology I used to create this platform that …

Getting started - Part 1 - the thought process

I thought it was time to setup some form of central repository or portfolio of my work when I started visiting university open days and wanted to be able to showcase my work so far. This article aims to outline the initial steps take to get off the gound. Currently the content I …

Getting started - Part 2 - the practicalities

After a bit of a crash course in googling how to do things its time to join all the dots… Hugo Installing Hugo was fairly painless and it has some great features like the ability to preview my changes on the fly. I then found a simple theme from the Hugo themes library …

Getting started - Part 3 - the content

Sometimes the content is the most difficult thing. I have the infrastucture and the methodology just need to put some structure to it and a common theme. Luckily Hugo has a great repository of prebuilt themes so I picked one that gave me the option for a blog type layout with the …

My Portfolio - my video content

Ultimately the aim of this website is to share some of the videos and content that I have created - so here it is…. My Portfolio In future you can simply select My Portfolio from the menu in the top right hand corner

Livestream test

This was an experiment in live streaming and person following My instant thought when doing a livestream is OBS and a laptop and a camera feed. While this can work very well we were looking at how we could stream a live event easily with minimal equipment and also minimal space …

Basketball end of season highlights

This was a video that I edited and put together for a basketball end of season highlights celebration Every game that this particular team play is recorded as a simple video file and then I took all of the best moments from these and added an audio track and this was presented at …

Basketball promotional video

I am a player at Abingdon Eagles Basketball club, however I am also a coach and official. One of my honours is to be asked to coach for a Community Session setup by the Abingdon Eagles Foundation (https://abingdoneagles.foundation). Every Monday I am an assistant coach for …

Basketball leavers video

This was a video that I edited and put together for a basketball leavers celebration The concept behind this was to create an emotional yet fun interview type video with all the players in the same age group that all leaving the club going onto university or jobs. This was filmed …