Where in the world am I today?: Driving from Red Deer to Vancouver Hubba-Dubba-Dubba…

In the world of promo and marketing having up-to-date images and video is pretty important. I think this is in part why I became a part-time photographer/videographer. It’s a part of the business that I really enjoy and although I know there are times to get a professional in to do the job, I still love watching and growing in my skills with these two mediums.

I’ve always enjoyed taking pictures and documenting events in my life and love doing video edits as well… The picture that accompanies this blog came out of performing at Peacefest in Peace River, Alberta a couple of weeks ago. I handed my camera to the guy who was in charge of bringing me in to do the gig and told him to snap away… He caught many great images from my time in Peace River.

More recently, this past weekend in fact, I brought my video camera along with me and had the opportunity to put together a couple of fun videos with Rob Williams and Rick Kunst. I was talking to both Rob and Rick about my enjoyment of video work and we made time in and around performances at Centrefest in Red Deer to produce two ‘Clown v. Mime’ videos which can be seen here –

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L3lmDMVbkNU

And

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zg4fUSo85Kk

Now these aren’t specifically promotional videos for any of the people that were involved with the project, at least not directly related to the performances that compose the main source of our regular income, but they were a fun side project that allowed us to noodle around with some funny ideas and get them uploaded to YouTube fairly quickly and painlessly and allowed us to get a little bit extra out of the weekend we were already spending together.

In this day and age when both still and video cameras are, financially speaking, with in the grasp of most performers it startles me that more people aren’t doing interesting things with this technology. In a world where YouTube has become a daily source for entertainment content for many people it really is an opportunity to flex your creative muscles from time to time and generate a bit of up-to-date content.

Even if it isn’t specifically related to the show you do, I think there’s a real value in putting out creative and funny content to the world. Ya never know… It might just be the next big thing on YouTube.