I'm occasionally faced with the challenge of producing a video about a subject where I can't film b-roll. Children are the best example for many reasons. Let's say you want b-roll of children playing in a park. The easiest thing to do would be to walk to the park and start filming kids. That would…
Video
Budget Basics Video
Three years ago I created the first Santa Barbara County Budget Basics video. I created the video as a response to general comments that the budget book was too large to understand. While the budget book has a summary section in it, I thought it would be a good idea to visualize the summary as…
California Children’s Services
I have produced hundreds of short promotional and educational videos over the past ten years. The process can be difficult sometimes either because the subject matter isn't interesting or the people who request the video don't know what they want, change their mind about what they want, etc. Then there are the gold standard videos…
First post
Here's my first post. Let's make it the latest video I produced for Santa Barbara County Parks Department. Producing this video was like a scavenger hunt. The parks director asked me if I could create a 4 minute video on our parks that would show before the movies in the Courthouse Sunken Garden this summer.…
Lael Wageneck 