Shooting the first video
Wednesday, June 27th, 2007OK, we’re video production guys by nature. This is what we do. (B.K.C. – Before kettle corn) Of course we’re gonna shoot commercials and other silly crap for Velma’s Kettle Corn. We can’t help it. Steve was mostly a sound guy, I did plenty of shooting in my early days and ended up an editor/graphics guy. (I created everything you see on this website.) We get paid plenty of money to do video production. Why are we now making kettle corn? I tend to blame it on a mid-life crisis.
Of course we pick a 95 degree day in Springfield to shoot this thing in. Some people needed a little prodding with a large bag “upgrade” to get them on camera. Some people just went for it. (We like the type who just go for it. Not that we’re losing any big money on upgrading to a large bag, just they tend to be more spontaneous.) Today reminded me of the OTHER 95 degree day we had last year. Not only is the kettle radiating blazing heat, but even the kettle corn is once you dump it in the sifter. I got heat stroke by the end of the day last year and couldn’t even help load the trailer. This was before we got these super duper blower fans that fire a torrent of air into your face. A couple of people asked me what are those for, I call them our “life support system.”
We should be shooting some more testimonials during the summer and will post all the new versions as we go along. I’m planning on doing some weird “story” things with kettle corn too. To see what we did for a video, just go to the buy some now page:
Buy some kettle corn online page
Note: yes, it is the ol’ “go to the BUY SOME KETTLE CORN page to see what we did” ploy. Feel free to ignore the BUY SOME button. 
