Gordon Wells

Well done, Bogdan. This is a substantial improvement on the first draft you showed us in Pistoia. I agree with Mihai that you have paced it well, and I am sure there will be enough space between sound clips to accommodate the different amounts of time that different languages will need to make a particular point. Suggestions for further improvement? Well, yes, I have some. I don't think it needs to be quite as long as you have made it. You could, for example, cut down on the length of the finished example clip you show at the end. Two or three sentences only would be probably be sufficient. Two comments on the soundtrack. Firstly, your voice is clear and strong, but the recording is slightly "boomy" - I detect something of an echo. Perhaps you recorded it in a room without carpets and curtains? Another time you could try recording your voice in a room with less reflective surfaces. Secondly, I'm not sure the backing music really adds to the piece. For me, "I can't live, if living is without you" was a distraction rather than an enhancement... And finally, I'm not sure about your use of the term "replica". It seems slightly odd. Wouldn't "sentence" or "subtitle" be better? But, overall, I think you've done a good job here and it stands comparison with other online DIY instructional videos I've seen in the same genre. And I recognise that some of the comments I've made are, to an extent, matters of personal taste. It will be interesting to see what other colleagues think. I will never advise colleagues not to achieve as high a quality as they possibly can, but at the end of the day it will be up to each team to decide whether what they have produced bears comparison with the best work of others and adequately reflects a positive image of their institution to the outside world. Keep up the good work, everyone!