The Premier Video Spotlight

 We've reached the last week of the video spotlight campaign. The Premier Level!

I considered re-recording the audio for this one, because the sound of the locks dripping is SO loud, but I decided that I liked the character of it. Plus, it would be a lot of work to get all my words to match up to the video exactly.

I'm so pleased with how all the videos turned out. I'm excited that now I have video explanations of each book to which I can refer customers. Many thanks to my hubby over at JK Sound Studios for the video work and editing, although I created all the intros and outros using Canva and Lumen5.  The soundtrack is also from Lumen5; I found the track when I created my first Lumen5 video and just fell in love with it.  

I'm even more excited about my next promotion however: a contest! More details to come, but free books and gift cards will be on the table!

Week five of the Video Spotlight Campaign: The Intermediate Level

 Excited to share the next installment in the Video Spotlight series today: The Intermediate Level.

As I remarked on Facebook, the background we shot this in front of is my favourite of all five videos. To film these, James of JK Sound Studios (and also my husband) and I wandered around Fair Havens Ministries in Beaverton, Ontario, and just let inspiration strike.  I had an idea for the first video, and from there we just scouted around until a setting struck our fancy.

The previous video (Novice Level) was filmed at the bottom of the hill in front of the Gamebridge locks of the Trent-Servern Waterway, or the Trent Canal as most of us call it. For this video, we pivoted about 70 degrees to the cameraman's left (ok, I have no idea what direction we would have been in) and found a really beautiful spot where the rock shoreline, the canal, and the trees on the opposite shore just came together in this really lovely scene.

The only problem was that there were fishermen and picnickers nearby; a few kids racing around. We didn't feel we could ask them to be quiet since it was a public space, so we just took a deep breath and started filming. The final take has the sound of a manual air pump, as some guy was inflating his rubber dinghy, but I decided not to let it bother me. The sounds of real life, right?!