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I wasn’t really able to participate in the planning process for IgniteOKC this Spring due to my teaching schedule.  However, the committee asked me to come back to do the videos again for the night of the event.  I think the videos turned out much better this time because I finally figured out how to compensate for the low light in the theater – we got someone to run a follow-spot and I stopped the aperture down a bit more than normal on the camera.  Thus, color balancing took much less time this go-round and I got all 15 videos turned around in a week! The intro graphic was made using Kathleen Shannon’s design for the IgniteOKC programs. Click here to see the rest of the IgniteOKC 3 videos.

That was the title of my Ignite Tulsa 3 talk, anyway.  I was technically third to go, following Jack Frank, who spoke about how all these old home movies had preserved Tulsa’s history (DOH!), and the infamous Matt Galloway.  Matt Eber is in charge of editing the videos for Ignite Tulsa and I look forward to sharing those with you as soon as they’re ready!  In the meantime, here’s my slides – you can pretend to hear me bumbling through them, can’t you?

Got the word late Friday night that my talk submission was accepted for Ignite Tulsa #3!

My talk title is, “No One Wants To Watch Your Home Movies,” which sounds kinda harsh, but I’m planning to share tips & tricks for total video n00bs. I’ll talk about recording best practices, easy-as-pie editing, and of course sharing that little Oscar winner with the world when you’re all done.

Ignite Tulsa will be held Sept. 16 at the Blue Dome Dinner in downtown’s Blue Dome district. Tickets go “on sale” this week and doors open at 6:00 (tickets, as always, are free). Come hang out and cheer me on if you’re free that evening!

Of course, there are 17 other amazing speakers as well, so your evening will be well spent.

As a side note, it has been so much fun to be part of Ignite in Oklahoma. I blogged earlier about how events like Ignite make a difference in the community – and I’m still amazed at how Ignite has exposed me to people and ideas I had never heard of before. So, go check it out. I think you’ll be glad you did.