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    How to Video Record Your Dog's Life Story: Writing, Financing, & Producing Pet Documentaries, Drama, or News
    How to Video Record Your Dog's Life Story: Writing, Financing, & Producing Pet Documentaries, Drama, or News
    How to Video Record Your Dog's Life Story: Writing, Financing, & Producing Pet Documentaries, Drama, or News
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    How to Video Record Your Dog's Life Story: Writing, Financing, & Producing Pet Documentaries, Drama, or News

    By Anne Hart

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    Your dog deserves a "celebration of life" video. Here's how to video record your dog's life story or make a movie, DVD, training documentary, or Time Capsule starring your dog included in your intergenerational family.

    Learn to record your dog's life story. Nearly everybody uses a camcorder to make videos of the family dog or takes pictures and puts them in a scrapbook to remember a dog as part of a family.

    Put your videos on DVDs, Flash Drives, CDs, or save to your computer linked to your camcorder for editing. From the time you first bring home a new puppy, a "this is your life" video podcast or disc of your dog's memorable moments can become part of a family history video newsletter or keepsake heirloom album.

    Learn how to conserve, protect videos, diaries, scrapbooks, or photos in digital or acid-free paper scrap books. Produce a personal, family, or salable video starring you and your dog. If you want to make the video available to others, you'll find instruction here on how to write, finance, produce, distribute, publicize, launch, promote, and market salable dog documentaries that include intergenerational family video newsletters or videos that feature prominently dogs or any pet.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisheriUniverse
    Release dateJul 10, 2007
    ISBN9781532000409
    How to Video Record Your Dog's Life Story: Writing, Financing, & Producing Pet Documentaries, Drama, or News
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    Anne Hart

    Popular author, writing educator, creativity enhancement specialist, and journalist, Anne Hart has written 82 published books (22 of them novels) including short stories, plays, and lyrics. She holds a graduate degree and is a member of the American Society of Journalists and Authors and Mensa.

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      How to Video Record Your Dog's Life Story - Anne Hart

      How to Video Record Your Dog’s Life Story

      Writing, Financing, & Producing Pet Documentaries, Drama, or News

      Anne Hart, M.A.

      ASJA Press

      New York Lincoln Shanghai

      How to Video Record Your Dog’s Life Story Writing, Financing, & Producing Pet Documentaries, Drama, or News

      Copyright © 2007 by Anne Hart

      All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced by any means, graphic, electronic, or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, taping or by any information storage retrieval system without the written permission of the publisher except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews.

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      The views expressed in this work are solely those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of the publisher, and the publisher hereby disclaims any responsibility for them.

      ISBN: 978-1-5320-0040-9 (ebook)

      ISBN: 978-0-595-45798-4 (sc)

      Table of Contents

      Introduction

      Chapter 1: Budgets: How to Finance the Video Recording of Your Dogs Life Story or a Pet-Related Video/Documentary as a Celebration of Life

      Chapter 2: Writing a Dog-Related Video Script

      Chapter 3: Using Episodes to Create Dog-Training, Dog Camp, or Dog Day Care DVDs without Formal Scripts

      Chapter 4: The Genres of Dog-Related DVDs

      Chapter 5: Simplicity Sells Dog Videos or Pet Documentaries

      Chapter 6: How to Write a Dog’s Life Story-Based Documentary Video Script from a Novel

      Chapter 7: What Are Producers Buying in Dog-Related Documentary Video Scripts?

      Chapter 8: Your Step-by-Step Dog Documentary Should Emphasize Problem-Solving and Achieving Results

      Chapter 9: Producing Media Tours for Dogs and Their Handlers

      Chapter 10: What are the Hot Topics in Dog Video Production Circles?

      Resources—Appendix 1

      Resources—Appendix 2

      Resources—Appendix 3

      Resources —Appendix 4

      Resources —Appendix 5

      Resources—Appendix 6

      Introduction

      Your dog deserves a celebration of life video . This book is about how to video record your dog’s life story. Here’s how to video record your dog’s life story or make a movie, DVD, training documentary, or Time Capsule starring your dog included in your intergenerational family. You’ll also learn how to write a documentary script for narration, prepare a budget, and research financing, distribution, promotion and marketing resources.

      To simplify, all you may want to do is make a video of your dog at different times. But perhaps you also may want to create a salable DVD about dogs and their care, training, or fun.

      Nearly everybody uses a camcorder to make videos of the family dog or takes pictures and puts them in a scrapbook to remember a dog as part of a family. Put your videos on DVDs . Flash Drives, CDs, or save to your computer linked to your camcorder for editing.

      From the time you first bring home a new puppy. a this is your life video podcast or disc of your dog’s memorable moments can become part of a family history video newsletter or keepsake heirloom album.

      Learn how to conserve, protect videos, diaries, scrapbooks, or photos in digital or acid-free paper scrap books. Produce a personal, family, or salable video starring you and your dog. If you want to make the video available to others, you’ll find instruction here on how to write, finance, produce, distribute, publicize, launch, promote, and market dog documentaries that include intergenerational family video newsletters or videos that feature prominently dogs or any pet.

      You can save your video in your personal computer, or keep in on a DVD, flash drive, or even upload it to Google or UTube. Maybe you’ll put your dog video in a time capsule or gift box protected from light damage. Then you can keep actual preserved and conserved photos in a scrap book of favorite scenes from the video printed out on photo paper and laminated to keep from fading as quickly.

      You’ll store it in a cool, dark place, away from water damage and air or breath moisture, perhaps your dog videos might end up as photos enlarged and put on a plaque or framed, or passed from DVD to other disc or chip-like devices where people can view your work on a computer or buy the DVDs from a catalogue . gift, or pet shop, of your dog in any stage of the pet’s life story. Your dog video is a celebration of life.

      And just in case you want to take a step further and make the video available to others, you’ll find instruction here on how to write , finance , produce , distribute, publicize, launch, promote, and market dog documentaries on dog training, care, camp, running, walking, sitting, spa activities, knitting, sewing, building, housing, walking on leash, health, nutrition, travel or adventure videos on DVD or similar formats . Use your personal computer and your camcorder linked together for editing your dog documentaries, features, learning materials, courses, or training videos.

      Write dog-related audio-visual scripts and turn them into reality-based documentaries for information, travel, or education. Use the Internet’s Web to syndicate and disseminate your content in text, audio, or video formats. Or save your videos to DVDs, flash drives, and other devices for viewing, either interactive or audience-feedback based.

      Popular subjects for linking your personal computer to your camcorder can be anything from dog-related world or local travel, your lectures, or life issues. You can link your personal computer to the tapes in your camcorder and broadcast at home part time or whatever hours you desire. Feature travel with dogs or dog-sled adventures or how-to DVDs dealing with dogs.

      Write , finance , and produce documentary or how-to DVDs showing new approaches to dog training based on dog behavior. Emphasize non-violent techniques to win the dog’s loyalty, love, and trust.

      Develop a DVD that shows the viewer how to develop enduring bonds of trust with a dog so that the dog cooperates. Your DVD doesn’t have to show negative approaches or those images of doggy torture chambers from old days past training that focused solely on leashes and collars or tethers or cages that restricted dogs.

      The dog need not be put on a tether in some yard to show how a dog is trained. Keep away from negative methods of the past. Instead create a learning environment in a how-to training video. You solve a problem in training by teaching the dog positive associations with the handler. Your DVD needs to compare negative associations a dog can figure out that might increase aggression in dominant dogs with positive associations and alternative gentle training methods.

      You don’t have to control the dog by punishment. You don’t have to encourage aggression or dog resentment and mistrust. Instead, your dog training or care DVD can focus on gentle methods such as clicker conditioning and similar methods that emphasize creating wonderfully positive.

      Before you even start a plan for your dog DVD, talk to book authors that offer newer approaches. For example, the book titled, Let The Dog Decide: The Revolutionary 15-Minute-A-Day Program to Train Your Dog—Gently and Reliably, by pioneer dog trainer Dale Stavroff (http://www.precisiondogs.com) explains in depth information about the unnatural role for a person to be the alpha pack leader of dogs. Instead, the book uses a different approach to clicker conditioning, emphasizing effective training techniques.

      In your video, talk to people who have written dog-training or dog care books to see what new information and direction is available. This way, you won’t repeat the same material in your video, documentary, or how-to DVD that already has been done in most books. Interview people that train people to train dogs. Talk to veterinarians, dog behaviorists, consultants, book authors, and producers of animal training documentaries.

      Chapter 1

      Budgets: How to Finance the Video Recording of Your Dogs Life Story or a Pet-Related Video/Documentary as a Celebration of Life

      Each scene in your video is a celebration of your dog’s life as part of your family and/or your dog’s workday. It’s simple to video record your dog’s life story. You frame the picture so that the dog is in the center of the ‘shot.’ Make a video clip (or a movie) highlighting significant events in your dog’s life, and include it in your annual family video newsletter.

      You can video record any pet to include in a time capsule, digital scrap book, or gift box of memorabilia usually reserved for family history updates, reunions, or periodical newsletters. Save the stages of your pet’s life on disc or flash drive, and mail the event to your family, friends, or students. Look at the Web site on Special Interest Videotapes at: http://www.dot.state.il.us/blr/printfriendly.pdf.

      After you produce your video, you then edit the video to show the dog as the main focus. You hold the camcorder so that the sun is not in the lens, and you keep your finger away from the lens. Since you can’t interview your dog to ask for the highlights, turning points, and significant events of your pet’s life story. you can make a skit focusing on your dog’s life stages, play, performance, agility, tricks, or interaction and connection with members of your family or yourself.

      Then put the video in a time capsule so you will remember the happy and memorable times as a celebration of life of your dog’ Think of the video as an adoption event, the inclusion of the dog into your own family or household. Then treat your dog as an athlete. You can even make videos of dog massage techniques or focus on one area of your dog’s life story and interaction or connection with you and the dog as family.

      Video record your dog every few weeks from the time you bring the dog home as a puppy to the precious time you spend with your dog in the dog’s golden years. Video record your dog’s life story in the same way as you would record a relative’s life story and save the video to a DVD and other technology. Then upload the video to a Web site or save it in the hard drive of your computer.

      The best way to video record your dog is to use your camcorder for close-ups and pull-backs, zoom ‘ins’ and zoom ‘outs’ while the dog works with a trainer or handler—either yourself or a professional trainer. Record your dog at some dog shows, in the park, on vacation ‘ at home, eating, playing with other dogs ‘ performing agility work, doing tricks, retrieving, rounding up sheep, or doing what your dog breed does naturally.

      The proliferation of dog camps, training, and daycare are burgeoning genres for making DVD documentaries on working with dogs . You can make a wide variety of deals with videographers and others that train, record, photograph, care for, treat, entertain, or supply dogs—either for no fee or a very low fee, or for a percentage of profits.

      The main fact about the budgets is they get you started and you can decrease or increase the line items according to your own requirements. It is not expensive to produce your dog training, dog camp, dog daycare, or other dog-related DVD. Because dog training is so wide spread, if done right, you could make a healthy profit on this idea (think series of DVDs). But make sure you have a name trainer if you can get one or a name dog.

      In the book titled Film & Video Budgets, Deke Simon with Michael Wiese, 4th updated edition, Michael Wiese Productions, Studio City, CA (http://www.mwp.com/). 2006, you’ll find in the book the Web site address for several excellent downloadable free budgets in Excel format that you can customize as part of the book purchase. The appendices also contain a wide variety of film and video budgets .

      If you produce your dog-training DVDs using digital format, you should know that there is a

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