Alan Taylor's Reel

Highlights of the day of events celebrating the start of the third session of parliament featuring a parade down the iconic Royal Mile followed by a picnic at the parliament next to Holyrood Park. At 10:20am, the Royal Company of Archers, Pursuivants, Heralds, and the Duke of Hamilton along with the Crown of Scotland made their to the Debating Chamber through the Conongate entrance awaiting the arrival of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth 2 along with the Scottish Parliament Edinburgh's Mace bearer...

Highlights of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, an annual event of musical theatre, comedy shows, operas, exhibitions, music and other events in Scotland. The Festival Fringe Edinburgh is the largest arts festivals in the entire globe, taking place every August for three weeks in Edinburgh, Scotland's capital City. Annually, thousands of performances are put on display all over Edinburgh, presenting comedy live shows to suit a multiple number of tastes. Edfringe acts range from well known names...

Short video paying tribute to the men who lost their lives during the Falklands War in the form of a Beating Retreat event that took place at Edinburgh Castle. Every year on Scotland's Edinburgh Castle's esplanade, a Scottish Beating Retreat takes place, usually involving many civilian pipe bands and brass bands. In 2007, there was a special remembrance memorial to the Falklands War which although I hadn't been born at that time, I decided to out this rememberances video together as a...

Musical performance from the Zawose Family as they play at the Royal Botanic Gardens in Inverleith as part of the Edinburgh International Festival. Hukwe Zawose was a well known Tanzanian musician, born in 1938 living until 2003. He was a member of the Gogo ethnic group which played the ilimba, a large lamellophone much the same as a mbira. He was a very well respected singer too. The musicians seen here as the Zawose Family, a group of people who are large fans of Hukwe Zawose and of the...

Highlights of the 2008 Edinburgh Festival Cavalcade filmed along Princes Street and at the top of Waverley Bridge featuring the cast of the Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo. Edinburgh is known widely for it's annual festivals, it's even had the name, the Festival City in place for many years. Some of the festivals present in Edinburgh include the; Edinburgh International Festival, Edinburgh Fringe which the Cavalcade starts off. The Edinburgh International Film Festival is another interesting...

Short video showing the full performance ahead of the 2008 Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo 2008 featuring the Golden Eagles Marching Display team. The Golden Eagles Southeast Missouri State University Marching Band has been playing since 1957 and has played to thousands of spectators throughout the United States and abroad. The USC Marching Band have played at national football league games, including the St. Louis Cardinals, Atlanta Falcons and Kansas City Chiefs. They have also performed...

Highlights of the Leith Festival annual Gala Parade as participants make their way down the famous Leith Walk. I made this parade video during June 2007 when I made around ten videos based around local events which I enjoyed doing. I stopped making these really as I couldn't afford to take time off to cover them which is a shame. Make sure you see the parade parade! Format: Hi8 Canon Uci8 The Leith Festival Gala Day community events take place every June as one of the events as part of the...

Scottish trip outdoors up Ben Lawers in company with my Duke of Edinburgh award group. For my gold duke Edinburgh hill walking expedition section of my DOE Award, I walked between Ullapool and Alness covering a distance of just over 80km, 50 miles over four days in August, 2010. Since 2006, I've been attending the duke of Edinburgh's awards training sessions at New Parliament House for preparing me for the d of e gold expedition which included sessions on map, compass work, preparing then...

Celebrating the 200th anniversary of the Dunbar Lifeboat Service, a mock rescue demonstrates a taster of how the RNLI deploys itself in rescues. In 2008, members of the Edinburgh Cine and Video Society collaborated on a project to celebrate the 200th anniversary of Dunbar Lifeboat Station where we took a collection of cameras and filmed the lifeboat crews practicing training with a variety of inshore rescue situations. Dunbar Lifeboat Station is situated in the East Lothian town of Dunbar on...

Full performance of the Trinidad and Tobago Steel Orchestra and Drums performing at the 2007 Mini Tattoo in Edinburgh, Scotland. In 2007, the organisers of the Royal Edinburgh Military Tatttoo staged a mini tattoo for visitors and residents to enjoy who may or may not have managed to get a ticket to the annual event on Edinburgh's castle esplanade. The Mini Tattoo is a 1 hour show featuring performers from the main event at the castle. This segment features the Trinidad and Tobago Defence...