This all started with a camcorder, some editing software, and a job loss.  So what do you do when you're between jobs and were an amateur film maker in college?  Why, of course, you video tape your kid's high school band (The Marching Redhawks of Naperville Central High School) and make a cute home video out of it, complete with multi-camera fades (shot at different times with the same camera) and a neatly edited sound track. 

But, surprisingly enough, that just gets things started.  Add hundreds of dollars in computer equipment, software and a burning desire to get the image you want onto the screen and you get a successful fund raising idea, a lot of new knowledge and a fun way to capture memories.

Dad Films is lots of fun for me now.  Using my newly found Adobe Video Suite skills, I can now author a pretty professional looking DVD, restore old vinyl recordings to sound nearly perfect (I'm never satisfied), and create web videos for friends trying to make it in a very competitive world.

I hope it becomes lots of fun for the audience as they one day look on these videos as the best memories of a time long ago.  If not, who cares?  I'm only in it for the laughs.


          

SPECIAL NOTE ON LOGO:  Yes, I use two shots from "It's A Wonderful Life" as my logo and yes, it's legal.  "Wonderful Life" is no longer under copyright protection and is in the public domain.  Remember when it used to be shown on every TV station imaginable at Christmas?  They stopped doing that because the story and the some of the songs used in the soundtrack are still copyright protected.  Now it only shows on NBC each year. 

My use of the two shots does not imply any element of the storyline in any way and is shown silently, so that no copyright protected music or audio is heard.  Neat, eh?