I created this video for Chuck and Janice Bookout as a favor for my mother, Jenni Bates. She is very involved in several Tulsa Square Dance groups. Chuck and Janice are the President Couple for the Oklahoma Square Dance Federation this year. Chuck appointed my mom to do the directory this year and after helping her with the cover I also volunteered to do this video.

Special thanks to George and Shirley Hazlett who were in charge of the video and made it such an enjoyable project! And to Chuck and Janice’s daughter who collected the pictures for the surprise video presentation. They set up the stage like a drive in movie theater and Chuck and Janice rode in a “convertible” (modified golf cart.) There were around 4,000 attendees and I hear the video was a hit!

Each slide was created in Photoshop with digiKits from Rhona Farrar, “Boys Will Be Boys”, her number 9 brush kit, Erica Hernandez’ “Matted Brush Set“, and Veronica Pounce’s ”Sketch Fettish“. Next I brought the slides into Adobe Premiere with music from the Back to the Future Trilogy. I had a lot of fun setting the slides to music. Unfortunately YouTube stripped the music.

My ”ad” lasts for about a minute at the end of the video, so when you see it you’ll know the show is over. I just didn’t have the heart to cut off the song’s finale!

If anyone is interested in using me for your next ”Pictures to Video” project feel free to contact me via my blog!

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