Hollywood Here I Come!

For three years now arts and culture organizations in Battle Creek have been taking turns producing a 25 minute video for the local station, Access Vision. The segment, Culture at the Creek, runs every week at 7 p.m. on channel 16. Kingman Museum’s month is July so as soon as March rolls around the staff begins to plan for our segment. As I stated before in previous postings, we are a small staff so each person is asked to perform duties that may or may not directly connect to their title. Since a volunteer films and edits the video, and I am the Volunteer Coordinator, I have the pleasure as acting as the video’s writer, director, and producer.

This year we used our video as a way to market our current temporary exhibit, “Where in the World is Edward Brigham?” Using information from archives that are loan from the Brigham Family, along with our records, Jon Kirkwood, the Archive Intern, wrote the script. Old pictures of Brigham’s travels, the various museum buildings, and Leila Arboretum help bring the story to life. One of our board members, Valerey Holmes, has been filming and editing our videos since we began producing them in 2007.

Valerey and I sat in a booth for two straight days editing the film and photos. You always think it won’t take long to produce a 25 minute video, but it does and you never seem to get it exactly how you want it to be. I don’t know how Hollywood producers do it on a regular basis! The end result is a nice piece about Edward Brigham and the museum’s history. It also talks about our current programs and what we have planned for the future. Thank you to Jon, Valerey and Bob Coward (our narrator) for helping to complete this project.

I also have to give a shout out to Paul because he asked me to. Thanks for keeping me sane this week.