My good friend, JaCynthia Shepherd, recalls her experiences on the Public School Bus system. It seems she received much of her education while riding to and from school. This video was originally supposed to be included in last month’s Videoblogging week.
The beautiful song is “She Was a Girl, She Was in Love” by Matt Baldwin. You can purchase it on iTunes. You can check out a slideshow of some of the photos here.
You are at the playground for videobloggers. No peeing in the pool and no poking eyes out.
March 10th - Banana Bus wins Best North Carolina Short at the All American Film Festival.
December 5th - MacMost article about Ajit's love for the Mac and his start in filmmaking (& Squigglebooth).
Dave Slusher, after watching the film at ConvergSouth, says "I highly recommend it. I think it should have won the fiction, and I voted it as highly as I voted anything but alas, it did not win."
October 20th - Screening at ConvergeSouth Film Festival.
September 29th - SquiggleBooth Retrospective at Ava Gardner Film Festival.
August 24th - No Fat Clips on Dear Stranger: "I hope you'll love everything of this short as much as I did..."
August 24th - Sara Hemar calls Dear Stranger "splendid"
August 3rd - Transbuddha calls Dear Stranger "gorgeous"
May 19th, 2007 at 12:27 pm
Really outstanding job man, I really enjoyed it! JaCynthia did a great job as well!
May 20th, 2007 at 11:30 am
This is probably yur best. Yeah.
May 21st, 2007 at 12:06 am
Awesome!!! Now that I’ve watched it though… I’m not sure I want my kids riding the bus
I can only imagine how long this video took you to do! Amazing!!
May 21st, 2007 at 10:06 pm
I wonder what you did on that bus?
May 22nd, 2007 at 1:21 pm
thx. after a hard day’s work in television, tackeling ego’s, fighting budgets, creating idents, strugles with marketingguys (who doesn’t know shit), making promo’s and changing graphics, preparing powerpoints and changing strategies, it is really nice to see motion image (and storytelling) in its pure form again. Straight from the hart. Glad to be on your bus man.
May 23rd, 2007 at 3:36 pm
Great job man.. good to see this finished. Hey, I remember that little bus!
May 26th, 2007 at 4:25 pm
so good….it’s not often that you hear when and how kids really learn about the basics of life.
we’re going to play this at http://pixelodeonfest.com.
June 22nd, 2007 at 7:07 am
Great storytelling…wonderful visuals, I haven’t heard such a good story in a long time…I was thinking this American Life…however this was better.
November 5th, 2007 at 11:32 am
Wow. That was not what I was expecting. Much, much more impressive than what I was expecting. Thank you for posting. I enjoyed the heck out of it.
Out of curiousity, how did you shoot the sequence with the bus weaving through traffic on the sidewalk?
November 11th, 2007 at 1:41 am
Hi Chris,
I actually moved the tripod (and cars) for each still.