Hi John,
The basic story of the Highland Clearances can be found at Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Highland_clearances). But I want to make the story more personal, focusing on maybe a handful of real families, seeing what they were like here, what it was like to be driven off their land, and what lives they made form themselves in the "New World". I like the idea of getting people in the U.S. to film the story on that side of The Pond, good call. Cheers, Gary From: videoblogging@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of johnleeke Sent: 02 February 2007 16:34 To: videoblogging@yahoogroups.com Subject: [videoblogging] Re: What Would you do? > Like mine, there's no way I could go across the Atlantic to tell the > story of the Highlanders across there on my own dime. I, for one, would very much like to hear this story. Why are the Atlantic and the travel dollars keeping you from telling it? Just start telling, with the resources you have in hand right now. You can always revise, update and add to the story. Make it a serialized story, everyone is already used to vlogging with repeated installments. Your first installment is the dream, where does this dream come from, who are the Highlanders, who are your Highlanders? Tell your story backwards, starting with you and your dream, working backward in time step-by-step, working geographically toward the Highland, eventually you'll get to making the travel installments. If you need material shot over there, make some friends over there (via the low-cost internet?) and have them shoot it for you (they have no camera? loan them yours. You have no camera? Ask for one, I bet there's more than one of us on this list who has an old retired cam that still works and is just collecting dust. convince us it's worth sending it to you, by starting a story that is so compelling we will do anything we can to hear the rest of the story.) So, what's the story? John (still hoping to get to Shropshire and dig up my own past) Leeke [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
