More Conversations...

So the conversations video was shown at weekly faculty meeting and met with a wonderful reaction.  Everybody was excited about it...tears were reported.  Holy crap... Tears? I mean, the "kiss me goodnight" story gets me choked up everytime, so it's nice to know that others are affected as well.   That's crazy awesome.  And then apparently everyone in the room started throwing out suggestions about where this video could go.  And they talked and they talked...and then they ordered 500 copies that they're going to ship to Geriatric deparments and programs across the country....and that's not hyperbole.

And I...am stunned.  Tonight I was going to talk about the progress of the show and how many different versions I considered because I think it's a good example of the organic nature of these things.  I think this is probably the best version that could've come out at this time because I'd been working on it for a long time (along side other shows and events and recording speakers and etc etc.)  And then this happened and other things which I'm not going to get into, so I"ll go into that later.

But for now, I'm in Holy Crap mode.  If they're making 500 copies, we need to get the credits in order.  The video I posted was going to be the one they gave  the Reynolds Foundation to show what they've been doing. If this is going to 500 places, we need to tighten things up. For most ASC projects, we've never done full credits. A lot of the time our names aren't even on the shows.  We videotaped someone this morning and he was asking us what kinds of shows we work on.  I had to remind him that a year ago we did a video for him...like he was the client.  His response: "oh yeah, people love that video, we send it everywhere!"  So it's going everywhere without our names on it.

There aren't many of us, so I want to actually put in our credits and titles. Jeanne certainly deserves credit as an editor. She edits almost all of our shows and no one knows it's her. For just about everyone else, I know their title. The person I don't know what to do with is Sue.  I think she'll just be a producer....but then she's the manager as well....soooo I don't know.

Oh and I need to post a fun/cool video:
Here's one by Bruce Branit, who also was a co-creator/director/etc of 405, which is really quite a bit of fun.