On a Singing After Supper Baha’i Song Karaoke Fireside Video: On par with anything a media conglomerate can create
By george wesley dannells on Aug 19, 2008 in All categories
What a blessing it would have been to be present in 
Sabby’s home in Adelaide for the musical fireside the other day! She reported 12 adult Baha’is and 3 Baha’i children
and 11 adult non-Baha’is and 2 children in attendance. “The house was just packed and crowded and we were all so happy and it was so exciting to feel this energy and the power of the Forces at work!!!” she wrote. Check out her blog (www.sabbynur.blogspot.com) or watch the video on her YouTube channel (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vFk5n9mLuqA.”
I love the high “production values” of her videos. There is such creativity in all her “computer-mediated communications,” to use some 90’s-era computer jargon! -gw
Production values – A term derived from television, film, etc. The æsthetics and quality of presentation of given information content. … A big-budget Hollywood motion picture is said to have high production values; an amateur home movie of baby’s first steps shot with a handheld camcorder is said to have low production values. Right now the Web is something of a levelling influence for CMC, because it is possible for a creative person with modest tools to build a Web page with production values on par with anything a wealthy media conglomerate can create.
CMC – Acronym for ‘computer-mediated communications.’ Any human communications in which digital hardware is used as a medium. Email, Usenet newsgroups and Web pages are all forms of CMC.
On Aug 19, 2008, Sabby said:
I’m blushing…. lol
Really “High Production Values”?
I didn’t ever think that my videos were that good, i think of them as still very amateurish!!
Thank you George for your wonderful encouragements and very nice compliments!!
Love,
Sabby
xoxox
On Aug 20, 2008, george wesley dannells said:
Sabby,
I don’t know what programs you used to produce the video, but they sure “worked.” I love the combination of still photos and recorded track at the beginning and end with the live singing in the middle. It all just flowed and seemed all very authentic. One has the sense of being in your home. The software that is out there is just making it that much easier to convey what is the reality of Baha’i community life.