Message: 2 Date: Tue, 1 Sep 2009 03:52:53 -0400 From: Gregory Maxwell gmaxwell@gmail.com Subject: Re: [Commons-l] Video skills and equipment To: Wikimedia Commons Discussion List commons-l@lists.wikimedia.org Message-ID: e692861c0909010052p6d435bb7jb9a28f120a0e1292@mail.gmail.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8

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Even ignoring the skills and time issue, I don't think it's currently possible to do decent staged videography without a couple thousand dollars in lighting and camera equipment (and even at then we're not talking fantastic results).

So I've laid down the gauntlet and said it couldn't be done: So now someone gets to come and prove me wrong and show me some excellent work done on a small budget. :)

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A couple years ago, someone (user:David Vasquez) made a wikinews video brodcast that was very good. So i think it can be done, its just rather difficult. (However it wasn't done on an extremely small budget, but it wasn't hugely expensive either as far as i know). Links if anyones interested:

- http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikinews11Apr2005_Demo_(high_quality)... - http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:WikinewsSpecialReportCCDC.ogg

-bawolff

p.s. If i recall - Wikiversity has a large section on video making.