I think it shows the neighborhood rather well.

Kris, with your natural sarcasm and lightening fast sharp wit (ask Steve if you don’t know what I mean), you could make great drive by videos. But you’d have to switch to the dark side (telling sellers to lower their price already instead of waiting for the market to “turn the corner”), and I don’t see you doing that.

As a compromise, you could ride shot gun in Jim’s truck and take the video (so Jim can watch where he’s driving, for a change). Also, most importantly, you provide “color commentary” to Jim’s straight-man snarkiness. Be sure to have a couple of chardonnays in advance, it’s not like you’re driving.

Next time I’ll use more ducks.

(BTW, not seeing blurry on my end.)

Not sure if it’s the photos but most of them show blurry on the video.

My suggestion? Do something more personal. Not just with pics and video but with you and Steve. Interview some friends/clients (short snips, maybe just one or two words like kid says “park!”, mother says “farmers market!”). Take the impersonal offsite computer driven video editing out of it and put the community into it.

Oh, and when you do video of people, have them ome towards you, not running away like your sneaking a shot in… looks much better and lots of people will wave and ham it up for the cam.

Soundtrack? Ditch it. Unless you can get one made by a friend go with the sounds of the community and yourselves. Voice-overs can be very powerful!

Most of all, focus on the video narrative. All videos must tell a story. They must flow and each scene should blend seemlessly into the next. When they don’t, that is when you use an effect (subtle fade is my favourite). Think about the order of scenes. School to sunset lake to school sportsfield doesn’t follow.

Hope my $0.02 helps.

Though I’m betting this was just put together to play with animoto as so many realtors seem to do. Am I right?

It’s 86 degrees currently in Carlsbad, what’s the temp in SR?