Special U.S. Deputy, Marshal Charles Meade

Dodge City Special U.S. Deputy, Marshal Charles Meade represented actor James Arness fictional Marshal Matt Dillon of Gunsmokein the Kansas Hall of Fame. Charles was the recipient in place of Arness to receive the award of induction in the Great Overland Station's Kansas Hall of Fame.  Hear Special U.S. Deputy, Marshal Charles Mead stories about Dodge City over the next few months as production has started for Celebrate Kansas Voices from Dodge City Kansas.
In this short digital story by Mike King, Oklahoma Digital Story Teller of Dodge City Kansas, gives a short preview of what is up and coming in his next film features . Digital stories about the early buffalo hunters, the trail drives to Dodge City and the characters of Doc Holliday, Wyatt Earp and Bat Masterson are all on the horizon as Marshall Meade will give a true reenactment of these early days of Kansas History. For information on how to create digital stories go to: http://digitalsandbox.weebly.com/art-of-digital-storytelling.html

How this Video was Created 

This video was shot with a Kodak HD Zi8 Flip Cam. The edits created in the introduction and end cuts were created in Animoto. Scrolling features in the end cuts were made in MovieMaker Live. Third rendering with overlays was created in Adobe Elements 9. Notice that the backdrop allows for a solid colored surface which is needed when creating graphic overlays during the post edits. Gunshot sound effects were downloaded from Findsounds.com and sequenced in the gun fight as a second sound track in Elements 9. Royalty free music was generated from sound layers in Sonicfire Pro 5.5 Scoring Edition. Finale render was compressed from 1.5GB to 32.5MB by using UTube downloader converter file function. If you are interested in learning more about production resources go to http://digitalsandbox.weebly.com/production-resources.html

To learn more about Celebrate Kansas Voices go to: http://celebratekansas.ning.com/

Three to See A Zoo

When we look at time, when we look at age, nothing compares to those years where new images played on fresh memories when we explored. We explored to see, hear, and experience worlds that were new to us.These are the imaginative years in life, that form our beginnings, to venture out in the world and remember. Remember the best we can of what it was to be three. To see a zoo, to explore the safari of names unfamiliar to us, as we labeled images of a Giraffe, a Rhino, a Kangaroo, or to see a turtle inch by. To pet a goat or feed a bird tells us that nature is to be respected as someday, someone else might be three to see a zoo.

Game Day

Game day is like the expressive pinnacle of an event waiting to occur in the unfamiliarity of an anticipated conclusion like the peak of a short story with lines that are written by each moment in time. As the gladiators accentuate into the stadium, the enormous crowds express the initial start  to an appointment in mindful calm for the claps of conflict to engage. To see the fanfare rising to a concert of performance as each combatant is riled with reverence and speculations from beginning to end. This is game day.

Mountains

In the late fall, the Wichita Mountains becomes a surreal place of calmness and solitude; a place where we can stand before it in the very presence of tranquility so incomparable as to make the senses reel with beauty and oneness with nature. Those who are inclined to listen to its surroundings will perceive the sound, deep within their soul, as a gentle voice replies to the essence of its nature: "This, and so much more, is with us to share."


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