Julia likes Snapdragons!

My daughter and I made a video last week. We’ve done a couple others, which I have posted on previously. This time, I did not include my company’s name or contact information in the video. Feel free to link or use as you wish. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t9UDwXO9uC0

Here’s my own critique of this video and what I was trying to do and what I would do differently…

I’m not very good at planning. Normally, I see an opportunity to make a video and we just go for it. That was the case here with Julia. I had shot a video with Matt Nagle covering Snapdragons and we weren’t really happy with his performance!

So, I went and got Julia and I asked her to run around and say some things and then play with the Snapdragons. That’s why her “story” of the Begonias “are going to look bad” doesn’t really sound convincing or polished.

I wish I had taken 15 minutes to think about what she was going to say before we began!

I shoot with two cameras, a Panasonic DVX100 and a Canon Rebel T2i. The “dolly” shots were accomplished by using a $99 slider from Indi Systems.

We are in an experimenting stage here, trying to figure out what we’re doing! Part of our thinking is that, promoting our own company to our customers is short-sighted. We want to make videos that work on both levels. Our customers can see it and know what our plants look like, but the message is in a form that is interesting and entertaining/informative (?) to anyone who has any appreciation for plants.

It doesn’t feel like we’ve nailed it yet, but I think we’re on to something.

What do you think?

~Art