A Glance Back – Video!
For the next month or so I’ll be experimenting with a new idea for Friday posts – A Glance Back. I hope these posts will let you know me a bit better, and – this is the fun part for me – let me get to know you better, too!
For this first post, I thought you might enjoy a visit with the video team that my Ebook publisher, Open Road Integrated Media [http://www.openroadmedia.com/], sent from New York City to my home here in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula for a two-day taping session.
You will notice if you visit Open Road’s author pages [Here’s mine: http://www.openroadmedia.com/sue-harrison] that many of the pages include a two-minute biographical video. To my delight, Open Road wanted a video for my author page, too, and so on Tuesday morning, July 9, two great guys with all kinds of cinematography experience and equipment showed up at our house.
Meet Corey Maloney, producer. Corey is also a writer. You can catch up with some of Corey’s other projects on YouTube. For example: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bXM3M0wIziY.
This is Luke LoCurcio, cinematographer. Check out the movie he’s currently working on, The After: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/sunrisearts/the-after
Although I love to perform to a live audience (as in singing and giving speeches), I’ve never really been comfortable in front of a camera, but Corey and Luke put me completely at ease. They set up in my office that first day, and Corey asked the interview questions while Luke did the camera work.
We broke for a lunch of traditional U.P. pasties. Nothing fancy – we ate on paper plates – but the meal was a hit! I’ll be posting a pastie recipe on my FB Author Page in the next week in case you’d like to try these little meat pies for yourself.
Later in the afternoon, Corey and Luke took off on their own to explore. They eventually wound up at Whitefish Point and Tahquamenon Falls. Great choices!
The next morning we taped “B roll,” which would be used as background with some of my interview answers. We taped on the beach, in my office, and in our living room where my husband Neil and I gave a short impromptu “concert.” We also shot some footage in the woods. The mosquitoes were delighted with our visit! Lunch that day was venison sandwiches and a pan of the ugliest brownies you ever saw. I lay no claims to artistry in the kitchen. (But they tasted good.)
There’s no way I can ever thank Corey and Luke enough for those two wonderful days. They are amazingly talented, and Neil and I will be following their careers as in, “We know those guys!!”
So that was my week. Tell me about yours. Are you into photography?
Blessings!
Sue
