The APH Conference, which Becky and I are attending, can always be counted on for long days filled with education, skill sharpening, and learning new ways to repackage old products for new niches, new clients, and new revenue. In other words, there’s no down time here and that’s the way we like it, it makes us feel like we’re getting our money’s worth out of our registration fee.
And then there’s the benefit of meeting new people who become “fast friends” (a shout out to Mary Lou Terwilliger for that phrase) simply because of where we happened to sit during a day-long video workshop. Yesterday, Becky and I, Trish from Seattle, Diane from Loveland, Colorado, Melvin (who calls himself Dee) from Las Cruces, New Mexico, and Don, who lives in Salt Lake City now but who spent the Vietnam era working for the CIA (recruiting spies), started the day as strangers. Tonight, we dined as friends. In between yesterday morning and tonight’s dinner, the six of us conceived, filmed, lit, scripted, and edited a short video.
At tonight’s video share, where APH’s top videographers share snippets of their best work, the six of us watched the stories created by seasoned professionals. Some of the work was amazing; some of the work was beneath ordinary. All of us felt our impromptu film would have stood up well under audience critique.
My hope is to post our workshop project, our four-minute short film titled Video Trax: Inside the Free Zone, on this blog by Friday or Saturday.
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