The World Turned Upside Down
During a vacation last summer I met a young man and woman out testing a brand new camcorder. They were having a wonderful time, burning through tape and batteries at a prodigious rate. They shot buildings, landscapes, people, automobiles, animals-nothing went unrecorded.
We entered into conversation; he told me he was a teacher, intending to make videos for class. His first project, he said, would be a video about his local town. This would both give him an opportunity to experiment with the camera and provide an interesting project for the children.
The young woman had ambitions of her own. In college she'd been a member of a theater group and had enjoyed taking part in plays and revues. She was interested in scripts suitable for video use. Although scripts for stage plays exist worldwide, there are few written or published specifically for videomaking. I suggested they might have a go at writing their own.
They felt this was a job for professionals, that it would present too many problems.
It took me about three minutes to convince them othe…
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