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Karin,
If you are really interested in making a video series, we can talk in Philadelphia.
I hired a small television production studio and cameraman at $70 an hour, and moved my studio into an extra room at the television headquarters. I stayed there for six months until the videos were finished. I would go in three or four times a week and work with the cameraman. My model, Megan, also worked as continuity (She would remember if I had already said something or not...). When we had 50 hours of raw tape in the can, we went to work doing the editing. The filming took 2 1/2 months, the editing took three months.
I say all this to give you some idea of the time commitment. Albeit my video series is 13 hours long--a marathon of information--but the amount of time needed to put something like this together is logarithmically more involved than you can imagine. I figure that it was three hours in the studio for every hour of tape, and four hours in editing for every hour of finished tape. This is why I am very glad I made the decision to hire a professional to do the camera work and the editing. I didn't have to teach myself to use a camera, and I didn't have to teach myself to do the editing. I sat next to the editor and said, "Cut here, put the drop shot there, I want the opening shot to be panned there...," and the editor did what I asked, so it was my baby, but I didn't have to learn, buy, or rent the editing equipment.
I am planning on doing one or two more videos this summer, one on sauce, and one on charcoal, and I will go back to the same cameraman and television studio to make them.
The key thing is having an extremely clear idea on how the videos will be put together-the outline. Much like knowing exactly how a painting will look before one brushstroke touches the canvas, you need to know exactly how the video will appear before one foot of tape is filmed. Otherwise it gets very expensive and very time consuming. Heaven knows, it is time consuming enough when you know exactly where you are going. It took me two years to recuperate from the time lost to the video production.
Best luck! I would love to see you put something together.
Peggy
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