Video Making on a Budget

 Here is very basic raw footage for the 1-2 minute video that will put together by the University of Idaho videography department team. While they've done exciting video shoots hanging out of helicopters to the more mundane and random basic program brochure made into a video for training staff, my hope is this video has some appeal to inspire parents and 4-H leaders to enroll youth in science related projects. I certainly could have shot more exciting video such as science experiments with major reactions, in fact I'm regretting not doing that (did get some great laboratory videos and images), but hopefully with music, wording with great timing (done by professionals, not me), I know they can create magic.

In my former position as coordinator for Idaho's Wednesday's Child, area foster children were recorded asking for adoptive homes and then featured on the local news. I've seen how the process works for the local news team, and how many hours goes into one five minute video segment. I believe those in the news room, the staff and "talent", do work long hours for the short videos we take might take for granted. We're learning much about the changing face of media with short clipets of information blasted at rapid intervals. As program coordinators within the University and extension offices I believe we need to keep up with the times, even if we're not confident we can do it.

My hope is this video moves us forward and is a good bang for the buck.

 

Enjoying post production photo and video shoot to send to the University video department. My video shooting ability is not what it could be!