How to Video Record Your Dog's Life Story: Writing, Financing, & Producing Pet Documentaries, copyright by Anne Hart

In the book titled, How to Video Record Your Dog’s Life Story: Writing, Financing, & Producing Pet Documentaries, Drama, or News, by Anne Hart, published July 2007 by ASJA Press Imprint, iUniverse, Inc. 978-0-595-45798-4, you’ll see sample very low cost budgets for making an easy to understand, cost-effective dog documentary or video celebrating your dog’s life story. Browse this book at the publisher’s site at http://www.iuniverse.com.

Treat Your Dog Like an Athlete with a Celebration of Life Video because your dog deserves to be remembered in all stages of your dog's growing up and being on the job for you as part of your family keepsake album or time capsule video. You may even go for a even virtual reality recording. Or make your dog's life story into a video computer game. Or a digital scrap book or newsletter.

To simplify, all you may want to do is make a video of your dog at different times. But perhaps you also may want to create a salable DVD about dogs and their care, training, or fun. Nearly everybody uses a camcorder to make videos of the family dog or takes pictures and puts them in a scrapbook to remember a dog as part of a family. Put your videos on DVDs, Flash Drives, CDs, or save to your computer linked to your camcorder for editing.

From the time you first bring home a new puppy, a “this is your life” video podcast or disc of your dog’s memorable moments can become part of a family history video newsletter or keepsake heirloom album. Learn how to conserve, protect videos, diaries, scrapbooks, or photos in digital or acid-free paper scrap books.

Maybe you’ll put your dog video in a time capsule or gift box protected from light damage. Then you can keep actual preserved and conserved photos in a scrap book of favorite scenes from the video printed out on photo paper and laminated to keep from fading as quickly.

You’ll store it in a cool, dark place, away from water damage and air or breath moisture, perhaps your dog videos might end up as photos enlarged and put on a plaque or framed, or passed from DVD to other disc or chip-like devices where people can view your work on a computer or buy the DVDs from a catalogue, gift, or pet shop, of your dog in any stage of the pet’s life story.

Your dog video is a celebration of life. And just in case you want to take a step further and make the video available to others, you’ll find instruction here on how to write, finance, produce, distribute, publicize, launch, promote, and market dog documentaries on dog training, care, camp, running, walking, sitting, spa activities, knitting, sewing, building, housing, walking on leash, health, nutrition, travel or adventure videos on DVD or similar formats.

Use your personal computer and your camcorder linked together for editing your dog documentaries, features, learning materials, courses, or training videos. Write dog-related audio-visual scripts and turn them into reality-based documentaries for information, travel, or education. Use the Internet’s Web to syndicate and disseminate your content in text, audio, or video formats. Or save your videos to DVDs, flash drives, and other devices for viewing, either interactive or audience-feedback based.

Popular subjects for linking your personal computer to your camcorder can be anything from dog-related world or local travel, your lectures, or life issues. You can link your personal computer to the tapes in your camcorder and broadcast at home part time or whatever hours you desire. Feature travel with dogs or dog-sled adventures or how-to DVDs dealing with dogs.

Write, finance, and produce documentary or how-to DVDs showing new approaches to dog training based on dog behavior. Emphasize non-violent techniques to win the dog’s loyalty, love, and trust. Develop a DVD that shows the viewer how to develop enduring bonds of trust with a dog so that the dog cooperates.

Your DVD doesn’t have to show negative approaches or those images of doggy torture chambers from old days past training that focused solely on “leashes and collars or tethers” or cages that restricted dogs. The dog need not be put on a tether in some yard to show how a dog is trained.

Keep away from negative methods of the past. Instead create a learning environment in a how-to training video. You solve a problem in training by teaching the dog positive associations with the handler. Your DVD needs to compare negative associations a dog can figure out that might increase aggression in dominant dogs with positive associations and alternative gentle training methods.

Don’t control the dog by punishment. You don’t have to encourage aggression or dog resentment and mistrust. Instead, your dog training or care DVD can focus on gentle methods such as clicker conditioning and similar methods that emphasize creating wonderfully positive. Before you even start a plan for your dog DVD, talk to a few book authors that offer a variety of new and gentle approaches.

The book suggests a variety of creative ideas. For example, It's an unnatural role for a person to be the alpha pack leader of dogs. Make a dog video showing a different approach to clicker conditioning, emphasizing effective training techniques. Do your research homework. Interview dog experts.Then record your dog's life story for the future.

How to Video Record Your Dog's Life Story: Writing, Financing, & Producing Pet Documentaries, copyright by Anne Hart

How to Decide Whether to Publish Your Book Print on Demand or with a Brick and Mortar Publisher

How to Decide Whether to Publish Your Book Print on Demand or with a Brick and Mortar Publisher View the 35-minute Video on Google’s Web site.

I published 80+ paperback books with a print-on-demand publisher in the past six years, 11 books with a mainstream publisher in the last 30 years, and one book this summer with a popular mainstream publisher. And my preference for getting each book published in four to six weeks with my own art work on the cover is to go with a quality print-on-demand publisher. Some P.O.D. publishers have contracts with specific writers' associations to get you a discount on publishing.

Other P.O.D. publishers or printers let you upload your manuscript to their browsers and publish your book for free, whereas others charge a fee. Here's how to decide for yourself based on who is your intended or niche audience/market of readers. There are several alternatives--mainstream publisher accepting unsolicited manuscripts, mainstream, agent only publisher, small publisher, entertainment/intellectual property rights attorney auctioning your manuscript to the highest-bidding publishers and/or agents, and self-publishing or group and community publishing. Another alternative is to package your book with a manufacturer's products.

I prefer the better quality print-on-demand publisher.
Articles and excerpts are on my Web site at: http://annehart.tripod.com. You can be any age. You can be a student or teacher, or a freelance writer, or age-wise and publishing your memoirs or life story highlights, events, and turning points.

Whatever you want to publish--fiction, poetry, plays, how-to books, if you find an audience that needs the information to solve problems, make decisions, get measurable results, or follow step-by-step instructions, you have a potential book.
All you need to do is write one page a day for a year or a few months and edit your book for errors.

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