Kay and I have just finished our latest project. It is part of the “Conversati0n Series” we started a number of years ago. This time we had the opportunity to interview the author Helen Frost. Helen won the Printz award for “Keesha’s House”. She is a wonderful writer and I am so grateful for the time she spent creating this video. If you would like to learn more about Helen and her work you can find it at www.helenfrost.net
John and I have been friends since the first library camp up in Ann Arbor. Kay and I captured this video a couple of years ago at the Internet Librarian Conference and then it just sat around in a drawer in my office. I found it and thought “Oh my god how did I forget to edit this footage.” I did manage to edit it and then I forgot to write a blog post about it. Now I am having that moment again where I am going “Oh my god why did I not write a blog post.” John is one of the coolest, nicest and smartest guys out there in libraryland. If he is talking at a conference that you are attending I would recommend going to his session.
I am always looking for online videos that are amazing unique and creative. Susie found these over the weekend and they are both just awe inspiring. These videos didn’t take a a huge budget but the investment was in time. Dream big.
Last year Kay and I gave a presentation at the Internet Librarian (IL) conference in Monterey. Our goal was to give a presentation and to create a video all within 50 minutes. We managed to do this with the help of the audience. We wanted to create a video that promoted IL 2009 and captured the energy and excitement of the event. I had storyboarded the video and thought I had an idea of how it was going to go together. Once we came back from the conference and had time to look at the footage we needed to have a voice over segment created that would pull the images together. I wrote the first draft, but it didn’t work. So now we faced a bit of a dilemma. Should we stay with the original concept or rethink what we were doing. Ultimately, we decided to change the direction and I guess this happens sometimes in post production. I then sat down and rewrote the voice over and we took a second look at the images we had captured. We thought we would try and take a humorous approach and combine the elements of a Tractor Pull, a Gun and Knife show and Professional Wrestling. This is the result and I hope you enjoy it. I want to thank Erik Mollberg for the outstanding voice over work.
I also want to thank the Internet Librarian Conference and Jane Dysart for giving Kay and I this opportunity. This is a wonderful conference with talented, innovative speakers. I would recommend it to anyone that is wanting to hear and share new ideas.
Kay and I created this short film for our IL 2008 presentation. I came up with the idea and wrote the script. Kay and I did the voice overs and Kay did the animation. I hope you have as much fun watching this as we did making it.
This video happened kind of by accident. Rebecca had come to the branch managers meeting to share with the group how they relieved stress at her branch. She pulled out these drawings that she had drawn and then told just the funniest stories. After the meeting I asked if she would come down and let us film her. Kay created the animation and you get to see the results. I am so glad we were able to capture this moment.
This is the first Spainish language video that we have created. I really want to thank Maria for helping us with the translation and then agreeing to be filmed.