Need a short video clip for National Parks Initiative

[Dan T]

Folks,

I'm in need of a short video clip for my National Parks Service presentation. The clip that I need should start with the hang gliding vehicle arriving at the parking area of a foot launched site, then removing the glider from the vehicle and carrying it to the launch site and "setting it up", followed by a launch, a small portion of the flight, landing, and finally "breakdown and carrying out" of the glider.

The purpose of the video is to illustrate the fact that our hang gliding community steps as lightly on the ground as the most environmentally conscientious day hikers. I think the best way to do this is to illustrate the fact that we "walk" our craft into our launch sites, assemble them there, then disassemble and out of our landing fields.

Ideally, the launch area will not appear overly developed. For our local sites Dickies, Woodstock and Daniels come to mind. A good representation of the "light footsteps" nature of our sport is more important than a perfect treeless undeveloped launch site.

A shot of the Shenandoah National Park visitors peeling their eyes away from the fall colors to admire the Dickey's Ridge pilots soaring lazily overhead would be icing on the cake.

The entire video needs to run in 90 seconds or less. This implies that the video will need to run in 'fast forward' for nearly its duration.

If you have or can produce such a video at a quality sufficient for projection onto a conference room screen, please let me know.

There are several members of the CHGPA whose videos demonstrate a high level of proficiency with multimedia presentations. This is a skill I do not possess. A dedicated volunteer to assist in putting this presentation would be very helpful. I know what I want to say and how, but I don't know how to construct it using tools more advanced that a relatively simple powerpoint presentation.

Thanks,
Dan Tomlinson
Co-Director Region 9