I shot and edited this video for Grandma Party here in Orlando.
From shooting until completion it took about a week.
Twice a year the residents of Orlando, FL convene in the parking lot of a coffee shop to buy, sell, and trade their homemade wares. Local bands perform while visitors browse colorful tents, or relax in the giant balloon pool. Basically it’s amazing. No video can do it justice. You should just go.
After almost a month of editing and motion-graphic-ing, it’s finally done. This is the official video for Orlando’s first BarCamp event.
I’m really excited about this because I felt like I really had a chance to make a difference here in the Orlando community. I wanted people to feel excited about their town, specifically about BarCamp; even one that already happened.
Before I started working on this there were two goals I had in mind. The first was to make something people would want to share with their friends. The second was to shame all other BarCamp videos.
Nothing against the other BarCamps (or their videos, even). I just wanted everybody to know that Orlando is not just going to sit idle while the world does its collective thing. We’re in the conversations now, and there’s some pretty great stuff going on here. It’s time everybody else knew that.
Right now I feel like Orlando is saying, “What’s up, World? We should hang out sometime.” So you better damn-well make sure you’ve got time in your schedule for us. Because we’ll keep calling. And not just to confirm your hotel reservations.
We shot this ad in a completely different environment than the rest of the series. I was worried about the sound the whole time (we’re in a noisier place now), but it turned out to be not much of an issue.
The guys at Rails Envy just released this ad last weekend, so I guess it’s about time that I post it here as well. This ad in particular deviates from the “Get a Mac” formula more than any other of the nine ads we shot. It’s also been getting some of the best responses we’ve seen yet. Huzzah for that.
So here you go; part seven of nine in the series: Ruby on Rails vs. Django