Hey everyone! Today I am attempting a hard exercise just to see what I can do! So lets take a look at the briefing
Task briefing:
The video below was shared by the Visit Tirana Twitter account on February 16, 2023.
Please answer the following questions:
a) To the best of your knowledge, at what time was the video recorded?
b) Find the coordinates of where the person was walking at the time of the recording.
(In the event that the tweet gets deleted here is the saved video and a screenshot of the tweet)
Exercise level:
For beginners: a) Hard, b) Hard
For experts: a) Medium, b) Medium
So when first inspecting the video there were two buildings tha really interested me!
From the start we do have some key information. The twitter handle is called “VisitTirana” so If we look up Tirana its in Albania! So have a city and country and that’s a good first start.
So I couldn’t find the smaller building because it was too blurry, but I did find the second building and that was important. So I took a screenshot of the building and did a reverse image search
So I was able to find that this was a hotel called the “Dream Tirana” So now I have a location, so I decided to put this into google map and see what I could find
Perfect I was able to locate the Dream Tirana, so next I decided to see if I could throw my hangman in the street and find any close resemblance.
I decided to reference this building called the “Poliambulance” because I tried to match the video and street view I felt this was the closest I could get for a street view
So lets a take a look and see what we see in the street view!
So this is strikingly close to where the video was taken more or less. You can see key features like the bank, the yellow building, “Dream Tirana” and the unique building further down! So we can definitely confirm the location.
Next lets look at time it was taken, So originally I looked at a time and date website to find out the sunset time there
Now in my opinion the sunset time of 17:15 is a bit late especially if we look at the video, the color in the sky seems like the sun was in beginning phase of the sunset.
So my guestimate is around 1700 maybe a little less because I think 1715 is too late I think maybe thats when it actually almost gone.. So we have roughly a 15-30 minute window from when the sun is initially falling.
The owner of the exercise took it a step further and found a more technical approach to finding the exact time and was impressive. I won’t show that because I don’t want to be a copy cat. But my estimation was very close and I learned a new skill on how to find an exact time on videos in social media.
So I would say this was my first hard exercise and I nailed about 98% of it! I am quite happy!
This exercise was much harder then previous exercises and took a significant amount of time but I felt it did push me to a new level of thinking and understanding and I believe I will continue to grow as the difficulty level increases!
So to answer the questions
a) To the best of your knowledge, at what time was the video recorded? My answer: 1700. Owners answer: 1646
b) Find the coordinates of where the person was walking at the time of the recording. coordinates: 41.32695, 19.80729
Thank you for reading and happy gathering!