Video scrapbook quick-start guide

This page is a video scrapbook quick start guide. In other words, we want to help you get a handle on just what it will take to get you from the ideas stage to having your video scrapbook done. Why is this important? Because if you can get a handle on the process and grab each little part with our time organizer, it will become huge and this scrapbook quick start will become your personal "blankee".

It is (scrapbook psychology time) like any new unknown thing. Think for a moment...buying a new car...planning a trip...even shopping for a new house. HUGE! Most of us tend to look at the entire mountain we must climb instead of just looking at the trip as putting one foot in front of the other and sticking with it.

So, instead of concentrating on EVERYTHING that is involved with a new project, you simply chip away at it one bit at a time. When you do that, every day you accomplish one small part and eventually it all is completed. It really works and this scrapbook organizer will help you do that.

Now...you still have to make your roadmap and that is what we will do here. Call it a roadmap, a to-do list, a checklist, outline. Whatever works for you but use it to create the basic organization and then work it step-by-step until everything is done.

Here is your scrapbook quick start as you mentally think about your video scrapbook project:

1. Plan the purpose of the project
   Who do you wish to help you?
   Contact your helpers to see if they are interested
2. Read our book! Really – it will make this a lot simpler
3. Contact your star or video subject
   Are they interested?
4. Assign everyone to think of topics and questions
   Give a time deadline for responses
   Ask family and friends for photos, music if they will fit somewhere
5. Organize the responses into your script or prompter list
   Notate photos, music on your script for use later
6. Look at video equipment you have or can get the use of
   Go shopping if you need to purchase
7. Investigate editing software
   See if someone in the family can help if you don’t wish to do it yourself
8. Decide how you shoot and edit based on your hardware availability
9. Plan the shooting date, time, location
   Run it by everyone involved for approval
10. Acquire all of the things you need for the recording
    Make a list and don’t forget water, plenty of tape, notepads
    Wouldn’t hurt to have a still camera to take pictures of recording the video
11. Do the recording – Big day – have a lot of fun.
12. Take a break – let everything sit for a week
13. Start looking at the footage, photos, music
14. Get it all in you mind how you wish the video to evolve
15. If computer editing, start capturing everything into the computer
16. When finished capturing, start to lay down the main footage
    Just tack it together so the whole program is in there without any other stuff
17. Make sure the flow looks good – edit out any fluffs
18. Start adding in the extras – photos, music, titles
19. Watch the whole program and see if there are any areas to tweak
20. If you are happy – transfer it to DVD
21. Schedule a viewing with the star and those present during recording
22. Do the viewing and get comments
23. Make any changes if needed
24. Make the final copies of the DVD and distribute with instructions
25. Write thank you notes to everyone
26. Take a well deserved break.
    

Does it seem like this will take forever? It won't. Click here to see how long it will take to accomplish everything.

We hope this scrapbook quick start guide makes sense - feel free to modify it for your own specifics needs.

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