Going Frogging: Frog Hunter
Friday, October 7, 2011 at 12:33PM Here's a great story from Garden & Gun Magazine about Jody Meche, a frogger from the Atchafalaya Basin in Lousiana. Sometimes you take the ride because you never been there before. I suspect this will be the story when you meet Jody and here his story about how he takes most of his food out of the swamp.
Here's a great adventure story. It's got sounds and sights most of us have never experienced before. How much do we really care about the quality of the images in the final analysis? How much better would it have been if you had better images? 20% or 30% Point is, this video has great information. Sure, shoot it as best you can, but remember to get good sound and a great narration. Even though it's a video, the sound makes up for deficiencies in the images.
This was the case when deweymedia produce a fund raising video project for Agape, a charity that runs orphanages in India. We had to figure out how to tell their story with very little funding. So what did we do? We trained up a volunteer who was India bound on the cameras we had. A still camera and a video camera and we used whatever came back with them to make the best video we could. You decide if it worked. It's three up from the bottom of the page - it has a little girl smiling at you on a bus. Agape Video