New life for the FV Dvd
Posted: July 21st, 2010, 12:29 pm
I talked with Paul Schiemer today and he has agreed to let me take over the promotional DVD project. After reading thru the several message threads in the Promote FV forum, I decided to give it a try myself. I own a Film production company and have done many projects like this including a WWII D-Day film, The Grassroots Motosports Challenge Video, many WWII Veteran History Films and others.
I have a vested interest in keeping FV alive and well (since I own 3 of them now) and want my sons to enjoy the sport long after I am gone. I have all the equipment to film, edit and produce the film and will work around my current projects to get this done. I will not ask for any money to do this. When it is finished, I will give it away to anyone who wants to make copies or for a small fee, I will make professional looking copies with color labels and color jacket inserts in DVD cases where we can also put printed material inside. I will do this at cost (2 or 3 dollars each) if anyone wants them. I will also make a u-tube version.
I will put together a script based on comments in this forum and will send it out for comments. I will also get approval from our local region of SCCA to do this. I already do photography at Daytona and Sebring so video should not be a problem especially if it is not going to be for profit and it will promote a class of SCCA Racing. I also want to include all other air-cooled VW classes as they support the FV community. FST, Solo, Vintage, car shows, hill climbs etc but the focus will be
on FV racing today in SCCA and other groups. I will include what it takes to start from scratch including some drivers school footage and vendors who build cars and support FV. Websites for FV vendors will be included. Several tracks will be in the film and in-car footage will be there to give a "feel" of what FV racing is all about.
My goal is to make the film appeal to young people as well as middle-age folks who always wanted to race and perhaps have this on their bucket list. I also want to focus on Father-son teams as there are many in the club. You see this a lot in Kart racing.
It's a start. Paul is going to send me what he has and I will begin making plans to be at Sebring, West Palm, Morosso, Miami, Roebling Road and Daytona when it opens again. I have a couple in-car video cameras that I can put on FV cars to get new footage but if anyone has video in AVI, MPEG or ISO format, please contact me. Everything used in the film will have proper film credits included and I will return anything to the owners.
I want to thank Kevin and Paul for getting this started. I have worked on many projects that turned out to be impossible to complete. Still, a lot of time and effort went into the project so a group THANK YOU to them. This will not be an overnight project and I will ask for help from the FV Family when I need it and appreciate any help I receive.
Thanks again,
I have a vested interest in keeping FV alive and well (since I own 3 of them now) and want my sons to enjoy the sport long after I am gone. I have all the equipment to film, edit and produce the film and will work around my current projects to get this done. I will not ask for any money to do this. When it is finished, I will give it away to anyone who wants to make copies or for a small fee, I will make professional looking copies with color labels and color jacket inserts in DVD cases where we can also put printed material inside. I will do this at cost (2 or 3 dollars each) if anyone wants them. I will also make a u-tube version.
I will put together a script based on comments in this forum and will send it out for comments. I will also get approval from our local region of SCCA to do this. I already do photography at Daytona and Sebring so video should not be a problem especially if it is not going to be for profit and it will promote a class of SCCA Racing. I also want to include all other air-cooled VW classes as they support the FV community. FST, Solo, Vintage, car shows, hill climbs etc but the focus will be
on FV racing today in SCCA and other groups. I will include what it takes to start from scratch including some drivers school footage and vendors who build cars and support FV. Websites for FV vendors will be included. Several tracks will be in the film and in-car footage will be there to give a "feel" of what FV racing is all about.
My goal is to make the film appeal to young people as well as middle-age folks who always wanted to race and perhaps have this on their bucket list. I also want to focus on Father-son teams as there are many in the club. You see this a lot in Kart racing.
It's a start. Paul is going to send me what he has and I will begin making plans to be at Sebring, West Palm, Morosso, Miami, Roebling Road and Daytona when it opens again. I have a couple in-car video cameras that I can put on FV cars to get new footage but if anyone has video in AVI, MPEG or ISO format, please contact me. Everything used in the film will have proper film credits included and I will return anything to the owners.
I want to thank Kevin and Paul for getting this started. I have worked on many projects that turned out to be impossible to complete. Still, a lot of time and effort went into the project so a group THANK YOU to them. This will not be an overnight project and I will ask for help from the FV Family when I need it and appreciate any help I receive.
Thanks again,