{"id":2151,"date":"2013-07-04T11:55:01","date_gmt":"2013-07-04T19:55:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/heathervale.com\/blog\/?p=2151"},"modified":"2023-04-17T16:11:53","modified_gmt":"2023-04-18T00:11:53","slug":"a-4th-of-july-gift-for-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/heathervale.com\/blog\/2013\/07\/04\/a-4th-of-july-gift-for-you\/","title":{"rendered":"A 4th of July Gift for You!"},"content":{"rendered":"<iframe src=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/like.php?href=https:\/\/heathervale.com\/blog\/2013\/07\/04\/a-4th-of-july-gift-for-you\/&amp;layout=standard&amp;show_faces=1&amp;width=450&amp;action=like&amp;colorscheme=light&amp;font=\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border:none; overflow:hidden; width:450px; height:25px\"><\/iframe><iframe src=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/like.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fheathervale.com%2Fblog%2F2013%2F07%2F04%2Fa-4th-of-july-gift-for-you%2F&amp;layout=standard&amp;show_faces=true&amp;width=450&amp;action=like&amp;colorscheme=light&amp;height=80\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border:none; overflow:hidden; width:450px; height:80px;\" allowTransparency=\"true\"><\/iframe><p>As you know, I love what Andy Jenkins and Mike Filsaime are doing with <a href=\"http:\/\/theunwrapper.com\/videogenesis\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Video Genesis<\/a>. They&#8217;re all about quality, and seriously&#8230; it&#8217;s about time.<\/p>\n<p>Now, I have to admit that my own journey of striving for quality has always ended up with simpler solutions. I&#8217;m the anti-editor&#8230; I would rather capture an effect live, in the camera, to avoid an edit later and achieve the same result.<\/p>\n<p>That led to my famous swish-pan intro bumpers that became an integral part of my TV show, WORD, which ran in Toronto from 1993 &#8211; 1996.<\/p>\n<p>It also led me to help pioneer a style of on-camera presentation we called the Heather Vale Walk &#8216;n&#8217; Talk. You can see it at the beginning of this clip from my TV show:<\/p>\n<span class=\"vvqbox vvqyoutube\" style=\"width:425px;height:335px;\"><span id=\"vvq-2151-youtube-1\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=eu7V5hK1-Gc\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img.youtube.com\/vi\/eu7V5hK1-Gc\/0.jpg\" alt=\"YouTube Preview Image\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/span>\n<p>Then the interview is a standard format &#8212; mostly one-camera hand-held with the mic directing the flow of conversation. We did NOT use tripods back then&#8230; not EVER!<\/p>\n<p><strong>OK, now here&#8217;s the gift<\/strong>&#8230; (no, it wasn&#8217;t that blast-from-the-past clip!) \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>Andy and Mike are giving out a free mind map of all the possible video styles, when and how to use them, and what equipment you need to make it happen (you probably already have it too).<\/p>\n<p>My Walk &#8216;n&#8217; Talk is included under Talking Heads (we used to call them standups before I started walking instead of standing) \ud83d\ude42 They left out the Heather Vale part, but they probably don&#8217;t realize that I was doing it well before MuchMusic or CityTV&#8230; or Canadian dramas like Traders and The Newsroom&#8230; and years ahead of American dramas like The West Wing. Well, now you know!<\/p>\n<p>They also include the interview, of course, in two variations. To get the details on those, plus the other ten, head over to <a href=\"http:\/\/theunwrapper.com\/videogenesis\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/TheUnwrapper.com\/videogenesis<\/a><\/p>\n<div id=\"stcpDiv\">\n<p><strong>Keep Unwrapping Your Success!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Heather Vale Goss\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/heathervale.com\/images\/sigHVG_2.1_blue.gif\" width=\"205\" height=\"35\" \/><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As you know, I love what Andy Jenkins and Mike Filsaime are doing with Video Genesis. They&#8217;re all about quality, and seriously&#8230; it&#8217;s about time. Now, I have to admit that my own journey of striving for quality has always ended up with simpler solutions. 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