We recently worked with Paul Emerson in the President's Office to record this year's "Welcome" message delivered by ASU President, Michael Crow. The Office of the President has been actively exploring the integration of new media into the university, and they are committed to practice what they preach. Along this line, Paul contacted us a few weeks ago inquiring about the requirements and available options for producing video blogs. This year's Welcome message seemed to be an excellent first foray into the new medium, and we were happy to help.

• Link: ASU’s Office of the President podcast for the week of August 21st 2006

This video will likely be available across a number of our digital distribution channels including the Office of the President Podcast page above, ASU@iTunesU, our standard web streaming channels, as well as other open and public channels that we are experimenting with including OurMedia and others.

Technical Notes - This video is about 6 1/2 minutes long (delivered in a single, nearly perfect take as is so often the case with President Crow). We shot this on miniDV using a Panasonic DVX100, filtered with both Neutral Density and Black Diffusion filters. President Crow was lit with two banks of Kino Flo fluorescent instruments that provide cool soft and directional light. We utilized existing shades on the windows in the background and also coated them with CO gel material. Finally, a single Lowel ViP instrument was used to accent additional background elements.