Adventures in Video Land

http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=4v_FvuVWrU8

That should be the link to my YouTube 1 minute intro.
NO IDEA WHERE THE SOUND WENT and nobody else seems to be able to tell me.
It's super quiet and we don't know why - sorry about that.
[LOWER THE BAR, PEOPLE! It's the Basics. Think Basics.]

What a week! How do all you soccer Moms do this? You people with kids and dogs have been videoing and camcordering for all these years but somehow I escaped the whole thing. Until now.

The bottom line here is that it took me maybe 35 hours to make a one minute video that is seriously terrible. Note to self: "No 6am footage before coffee!"  But... I am way smarter than BEFORE I attempted this trick, and I liked what I learned. Especially once I progressed past the "hit my laptop with a hammer and throw the camera in Puget Sound" phase. All uphill from there, pretty much.

About 6 years ago I was both an attendee and a presenter at huge multiple conferences - consumer trends, product/industry trade shows, that sort of thing. I was (and still am) pretty darn surprised in many instances at the level of presentation given by some of the hot shot names on the roster. Have they ever SEEN the presentation before...? Did they have the girl next to them on the plane put it together....? Is it from 5 years ago and they just picked it off a stack?! Really! Some pretty unimpressive stuff at times.

Conversely, I have had my socks blown off by sleepy little companies with kick ass presentations.

Guess what the most memorable ones A L W A Y S had in them.......? That's right -- V I D E O.

No surprise. Very attention-getting and there is no way around their multisensory ability to capture my imagination and attention over Death By Bullets on those ppt templates we all know and love far too well.

My solution at the time was to move toward multimedia presentations immediately, and I did for a few years. I was working with a mega-talented film and video production house in Seattle called Mineral. Amazing. But I never did the shooting or editing or sound myself. (LOL: Now I know why!)

So the general report out from here is that I feel like I just fell down yet another Rabbit Hole - another time and space dimension and something interesting to me -- and I knew I was in a Rabbit Hole ALREADY. Is there a way up or out of here, I wonder?

The other thing to report out clearly is that I really like video - Love it. I like watching it, and if I learn how, I think I'd like creating it, and also I like people's responses watching it. It's just more fun and more engaging than stills. Period.

Thanks to Chris and to all for the ongoing pep talks. It was a scary couple of weeks there. Better now. Not sure yet what the outlook is for completing the list of lists for this course, but I do feel like I persisted and was able to learn new things in spite of massive frustration factors. Progress for me since conflict and frustration are often very demotivating in my case. Looking forward to finding out what's next!