Thursday, December 3, 2009

It's A Wonderful Library


This one was my baby. It was so much fun to create.

We wanted to use the It's a Wonderful Life idea last year, but it didn't work out. This time it did. J wrote the script and I put everything together. Those who have seen the movie It's a Wonderful Life will see the similarities between it and the podcast. J did an excellent job on George's voice, Brent made a wonderful Clarence, Melissa was Mary and Jocelyn was adorable as ever. She was the voice and little girl in our Trouble with Gnomes Podcast.

This one took approximately 50 hours of post production. Most of the work was on cutting out the 50 images from the movie and past them into pictures of the library and other locations around campus. One image we needed did not exist and I had to create it. It was when Mary turns to George and asks him what is wrong. I needed a shot of her looking concerned and there were none in the movie that I could use, so I ended up taking one of her smiling at George and removed the smile and brought the eyebrow down. That did the trick.

This was my first time doing the audio for a podcast; I think it turned out ok.

Food for Fines will Pay Your Dues

Carlos was the father of this one. He wrote the script. We added a couple new voices in this one. Shawn was Milly Baze and Brent (a new addition to UVU library) did the music and singing for the food for fines song at the beginning of the podcast.

Psycho for Study Rooms

J wrote the script for this one and he and I did the shooting for it. Unfortuanately the camera we used was not working correctly and turned out many of the pictures blurry. Due to schedules and deadlines we had to use those rather than reshoot. They still kind of worked because of the old timey look we gave the podcast. We used Melissa again, but added a new comer. I thought Warner was perfect for this role and did an excellent job. It was a fun one to do.

The Wizard of ERES

J'Oday and I wrote this one. I am not sure where the idea came from, but the timing was perfect because the movie was celebrating its 70th anniversary when we released this podcast. Melissa was the girl. J, Andrew, and I were the other characters. My favorite part of this podcast is the nontraditional ending. It is not a happy ending for everyone.