Thursday, 28 November 2013

Amara and a beautiful film.

Hello, 
This week, I’m working with the Amara software which gives a great possibility to overcome accessibility and language barriers for online video. Thanks to this free and open source we can make the work of subtitling and translating video. It’s a useful and powerful tool for the foreign languages classes, for example. I don’t want to write only about Amara, but I would like to encourage you to see some beautiful film which my teacher of Amara showed us at the beginning of the online training course using the platform Moodle. I don’t know how I have to download this film from the Vimeo servis so I give you only a link (I couldn’t find it in YouTube) http://vimeo.com/29531643. This film tells a story about life, love, and … sugar packets.
A boy working at a coffee shop notices an old man repeatedly stealing sugar packets. The boy attempts to solve the mystery of this man’s strange behaviour. But the answer isn't at all what he expected… You must really see this film!



Starring: Ian Hyland, Bill McHugh and Tom Everett Scott
Director: Brian McAllister
Screenplay by: Rebecca Sue Haber
Producer: Robert Cammisa
Director of Photography: Dennis Donovan
Music: Jarkko HietanenExecutive
Producer: Jim Mayzik