Making a Life - the final cut

Hi

So I spent a little longer to get the video finished, which is because I really wanted to make it a live action video instead of a screen capture video.

I have nothing against screen capture videos, I have seen some really great ones, I just thought it would give me a real challenge to create and edit a live action video using my DVD camcorder.

I have learned a great deal about the whole process of creating a video and I now know that I really enjoy it! It is so much fun.

I would love it if you would check out the final version and let me know what you think.

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

Now, making the video is only the first part of the process, but it is important to make sure it is watch-able, so I sent the first version to a number of close friends and asked for feedback.

This was a good move because the feedback really helped and I re-edited the video and ended up cutting about 3 minutes from it.

The idea is to promote my website http://www.itis2easy.com so I have that link at the end of the video, but I did not want to plaster the link throughout otherwise people would have simply seen this as a promotional video.

The question I am asking myself is, whether the link should have been in the video as well as at the end, but time will tell on that one.

Also, I wanted the video to appear in as many places as possible, so I used TubeMogul (http://www.tubemogul.com) to upload the video to multiple websites for me.

The next stage of the process is to create links to these videos from multiple sources and to create links from these videos to my website.

All the best,
Chris
http://www.itis2easy.com/

P.S. The video is currently posted to:

http://video.yahoo.com/watch/3240628/9140810
http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=40131736
http://www.metacafe.com/watch/1586991
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=321477832392989663
http://revver.com/video/1089261/making-a-life
http://uncutvideo.aol.com/videos/b0a74d0e78ffd365f62f600021f34977
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x6ctyj
http://www.blip.tv/file/1149191
http://www.veoh.com/videos/v15499341mtGT4j8S
http://www.stupidvideos.com/video/science_technology/Making_a_Life_2
http://sclipo.com/video/making-a-life_2
http://www.howcast.com/videos/24048-Making-a-Life

Making a Life

Once upon a time ….

…. I asked myself a question.

A question I did not like the answer to.

When life throws you a bum steer, what can seam like a disaster can end up in a better life. It is all about the decisions you make to take yourself forward.

I went through a very painful divorce and found myself a single parent, with no idea what I was supposed to be doing.

You see, I had done everything I thought a good husband and father was supposed to do, and I thought I had done a good job, but I still ended up divorced raising two kids alone. So I then found myself completely re-evaluating what I was doing and why I was doing it.

I knew I had to change my life to be a better father and to give my children the time they needed. It took me some time to really sort myself out, but in the end I found the way to be able to stay home and be there for my children when they really needed me.

That is what this video is all about.

How I came to the choice of staying home and using the power of the Internet to allow me to provide for my family.

Enjoy the video.
Chris