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Reporting from Honduras continues even though the 8 team members are back in Middle Tennessee. The Belmont Vision Online features additional photos from our Honduras adventure and more artcles from Chansin Bird and Nathan Baker. I am double posting the 3 minute 'sneak preview video' here on CTDT because several of you played an important part with financial support for the trip. This is just another way that we as a team would like to say, Thank You!
A more polished video product will be completed and burned to DVD next month, but this rough version will give you a quick view of the soup kitchen and the painting project that were part of our Honduras experience.
I am more and more convinced that it will become easier and easier to deliver video to a blog or a web site from remote villages like Cane, Honduras. All of the capure, digitizing, and editing for this clip was produced on a Dell laptop using Windows Movie Maker, a software application that is packaged with Widows XP...it is not the best video editing system around and I would never presume that it would work for broadcast, but it does work. The greater challenge to working from the field is carving out an hour+ of editing time for each minute of finished video. Then, there is the matter of uploading large files via a satellite connection...it works, but during the upload it can be about as exciting as watching the grass grow. *smile*
There are still burning questions to explore...just how important or urgent is it to deliver video while a team is in the field? Is video THAT much more powerful than still images and written copy? Would readers react faster/more generously if the 'nearly live' video included a response mechanism to contribute? Can the time to produce video in the field be put to better use in a humanitarian effort? Is all of this technology a distraction or physical drain on the human resources available? Is there adequate editorial review time available to avoid cultural taboos or risk to the privacy rights of those whose images appear on tape? A little time-distance from the physical/emotional strain of a foreign mission assignment helps to answer some of those questions...if you have thoughts to add, I welcome your comments.