After completing a Video for iPhone course, I was eager to put my skills into practice.

I was working in Ipswich Hospital’s communications office, who were keen to post more video on the website as soon as possible.

So, armed with just and mini iPad in a snazzy iOgrapher case, I set off to snatch clips in between interviewing and writing up stories, taking photographs and occasionally assisting a videographer.

Editing using the iPads’s iMovie was frustratingly limiting, as there are much fewer features on the iPad compared with the Mac version. It also often crashed when adding new clips to the timeline.

Anyway, hope you enjoy it!

Here is the legend I wrote to go accompany the film:

Take a high-speed art tour of Ipswich Hospital focusing on the drawings, photographs and sculptures that brighten up its corridors. Pieces specially commissioned by professionals hang alongside those by local school pupils, art groups, college students and those looking to sell their work or teach others.

One highlight is stroke patient Alex Osborne’s painting. The art student created it with his non-writing hand as part of his therapy in helping his recovery.

The largest piece is Suffolk artist Paul Richardson’s sculpture of two pairs of ballroom dancers entitled Dancers (a quick step to recovery). The larger than life silver and gold painted steel figures can be found with beaming grins outside in a courtyard.

The historic photographs seen on the way into the Stroke Ward can also be useful in helping patients by triggering memories that could be the key to releasing others.

Some of the more colourful pieces have been made by the youngsters in the Schoolroom in the children’s ward. Other artists, such as Picasso, are used as inspiration or projects may reflect the natural world.

This video is just a taste of what can be found around Ipswich Hospital, there’s lots more to be found if you keep your eyes peeled.