Thursday, May 29, 2008

The "commercial" for Folk Dancing

I put together with Loui Tucker’s editorial help the “commercial” for International Folk Dancing. I put together the first cut on May 14, 2008 and emailed it to Loui for her commit. As of writing of this post, we are on cut 7a, by the time of the articles publication who knows.

The commercial is available for use in a number of different formats:

· The lower resolution email version that is suitable to email to your friends.
· The Brightcove and You Tube versions which are available for use on your web sites.

The latest commercial can be seen on this site . This site is also the current clearing house site for folk dance links.

Some of the earlier videos can be seen on my YouTube Site. http://www.youtube.com/user/royisdancing .

The commercial has some fun clips of folk dancing and a web site contact at the end. I have started a web site to suppoert the commercial and the Internationaal Folk Dance Video List. This site ifdvl.org is listed as the web contact.

The commercial is there for anyone to use to promote folk dancing. If you need help on how to post it to you web page contact me, Roy Butler.

Please do your part to promote folk dancing, download the email-able version of the commercial and send it with the link to this blog to all of your friends. Post the video on your dance related web sites. Check back to the blog once and a while as we will put together more commercials. Put together your own commercial for folk dancing and I will add it to the blog.

If you have video that you have the rights to and would like me to post to the video list contact me. If you want to post your own video to Brightcove or You Tube, you can also contact me and I will help you get started and add links on my video sites.

Roy

1 comment:

denismurf said...

I'm offering a recreational IFD class in the fall through Seattle Community College. Might this project eventually result in a selection of videos tailored to the specific types of classes being offered? In the past, my classes have been geared to nonpartner, noncostumed, mostly vigorous, uncomplicated dances that encourage a social scene. I would not want to direct prospective students to a commercial depicting stuff I would not be doing myself.

This is fantastic work you're doing. Would footage of the group I developed in St. Louis be helpful in the sense of displaying the type of scene I hope to create through my new class? In general, how do you put these things together?

-- Denis Murphy