documenting your World Tai Chi & Qigong (Chi Kung) Day event by photo/videoing your event
Video Your WTCQD Event
Today, most SMART Phones have video capability. If you aren't
familiar with it, ask your group/students because you'll find
many people are, and are happy to help. It is best to shoot
short 2 or 3 minute video segments of your World Tai Chi &
Qigong Day event. You can shoot several, but short videos get
more views..
Scroll down to see some pretty spectacular video
coverage of WTCQD events. Today, many people (young people
especially) are into drones, those flying cameras. As you'll see
in some of the below videos drones can really add spectacle and
drama to your video documentation of your event.
Ask around in
your local group to see who knows video using SMART Phones, how
to upload video to Youtube, you may find people in your group
who know how to Edit Video, or who have drone cameras.
PEOPLE GET EXCITED ABOUT SHARING THEIR SKILLS ... IF you ask
them to.
UPLOAD YOUR VIDEOS TO YOUTUBE, and send us the
Youtube link to your video to
billdouglas@worldtaichiday.org, and we'll share them with
the world in our global newsletter. AGAIN, if this all sounds
strange to you, ask the younger people in your group, or their
kids or grand kids. They'll know :-)
SHOOT SHORT
INTERVIEWS: Of course vidoe of your entire group doing Tai
Chi or Qigong as part of the worldwide wave of WTCQD is wanted.
BUT, also shooting people up close, even just their faces and
eyes, or only upper torso, can be nice to give that personal
human feel to your event. ALSO, SHORT INTERVIEWS, asking
people things like "How does it feel doing Tai Chi with the
entire planet?" or "Do you enjoy being part of a worldwide
family of Tai Chi and Qigong on this special day?" ... or
whatever questions that you want to ask people.
If
you have someone in your group that can do video editing, merge
it all into a moving video to use year round to promote your
local classes.
Photo-ing Your WTCQD Event
We get all kinds of photos of World Tai Chi & Qigong Day
events, some small events, some massive events. But, the quality
of your photos does not depend on the size of your event.
A photographer taking care to frame their videos well, can bring
the fun, emotion, and moving drama of your event, playing Tai
Chi or Qigong with the whole planet, into the hearts of others.
For example, you can shoot a photo of a fairly large group
from far away, with lots of space around them ... and it will
make that fairly good sized group look like 3 or 4 people.
On the other hand, if you fill your camera space with people, a
small group can look like a huge crowd.
Also, do not try
to get everyone in every photo, take some close ups of people,
not just the person, but up closer, their face, their eyes, be
artistic. If there are children there doing Tai Chi or Qigong
get many shots of the children, close up, from a distance, their
eyes, their faces, etc. Let us see into the soul
experience your WTCQD attendees are having. If there are really
old people, get them. Get people dressed dramatically, get
different races, ethnicities, show us the rainbow of your
events. This isn't to exclude anyone, get photos of EVERYONE :-)
If you have a Facebook Page for your event, or you can make one
now, such as "World Tai Chi Day SEATTLE, WA USA" on Facebook,
you can upload your event photos there, and send us a link to
billdouglas@worldtaichiday.org with "WTCQD Event Photos on
FB" in subj. line and we'll share them with the world in our
global newsletter.
Describe Your WTCQD Event
Whether you are videoing your WTCQD event to upload to
Youtube, or photographing your event to upload your photos to
your Facebook Page ... take a few moments to DESCRIBE your
event. We've seen too many WTCQD event videos on Youtube,
for example, with no indication of what city, state, or country
that event was held in.
Youtube or Facebook allows you to
type descriptions of your events along with the video or photos
you upload. Feel free to add names, schools, websites, and also
share your heart, what did it mean to you and your group to
"play Tai Chi with the entire planet"? Don't be afraid to
open your heart. It is a powerful habit to do that. World
Tai Chi & Qigong Day's motto is "One World ... One Breath" ...
does this experience feel moving to you? We want to hear..
AGAIN, if all this sounds like it is beyond your technical
expertise .... REACH OUT to your group, their kids and grand
kids. They will know how to do all of this, and you'll
often find they will be EXCITED to show off their expertise by
helping you make some really spectacular documentation of your
WTCQD event, and then see us share their work with the world.
WTCQD is
always held on the "last Saturday of April" each year, 10 am local
time, worldwide
scroll down for spectactular video of past events
- Scroll down to see some of the more spectacular video projects involving WTCQD events worldwide:
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Get ideas on what you can do!
scroll down
for more ... but first ...
STUNNING video ... captures profound human art of world tai chi day
World Tai Chi
& Qigong Day
"One World... One Breath"
beautifully
artistic video productions ...
Tehran, Iran
Cairo, Egypt
Havana, Cuba
Kansas City, Birthplace of WTCQD
Porto, Portugal
Vilnius, Lithuania
Puerto Rico
Indonesia
Macedonia
(GORGEOUS
VIDEO LOCATION)
Hong Kong
Perth, Australia
(John Lennon's
"Imagine")