You Be The Producer | Videomaker Magazine Tips

This article originally appeared in the Videomaker Magazine December, 2002 issue. Pages 71 - 73
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Tap into a child's vivid imagination for inspiration. It can lead to a unique storyboard, and ultimately, an outstanding digital movie.

Imagination is the stuff that videos are made of, and who has a greater supply of this essential ingredient than children? In their world, a couple of blankets draped over some chairs becomes a secret fort, a discarded refrigerator box transforms into a rocket ship and a sandbox gives rise to towering castles. There's no limit to what a child's mind can conjure up.

Here's a short video you can shoot in an afternoon that plays with this simple idea and takes the viewer inside the imagination of a small child.Who can forget their early fascination with cars, imagining where they would take you and yearning for the freedom and exhilaration of the open road?

For this video, all you'll need is two young actors and one adult, a couple of toy cars and one real one. That's it. The premise is simple: two small boys are playing in the yard with their model cars when one of them notices that the door to their parent's real car is unlocked. Overcome with curiosity, he pops open the door, climbs into the driver's seat and, after a moment's hesitation, grabs the wheel. Suddenly, he finds himself cruising down the highways of his imagination. Where it will take him is entirely up to you.

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