Video: Space Competency Certification

Some of you know that I recently got in to a video project which was a bit outside my normal skill-set. A few weeks back, I approached 826 Seattle (where I have been volunteering) about the possibility of me videotaping author events when they have them. They seemed receptive but also came up with a separate video project which required more immediate attention.

Basically, the project was to document a new interactive experience currently for sale in the Greenwood Space Travel Supply Store. They wanted me to make a video so that the volunteer employees could understand how to give the exam to customers. As you’ll see, the experience is really fun; people submit themselves to being poked, prodded, and interrogated by an actor (or employee of the store), all in an attempt to receive certification for space travel.

The difficulties of the project were basically all in the editing since I’ve never actually used software to do it. I was expecting to videotape the process just once and then to go put it on a DVD. I had no idea that they were going to bring in the writers and an actor, giving away free in-store space certifications until we filled up a whole tape. Alas, challenge is good and I’m pretty happy with the results, especially the DVD’s I made. This is just one more example of a Mac with off-the-shelf software doing something pretty incredible.

Let me know what you think!