After the success of last year’s “The Volunteer Experience” video featuring Volunteer Center staff we decided to make a similar video featuring Bay Area volunteers. The participants all tell a great story about how volunteering can change lives (including their own!) and benefits the community. For the full effect be sure to watch the HD version at youtube.

I served as creative director, editor and as the lead of the motion graphics team. The video was shot on a Sony F23 and thanks to the hard work of  Thomas Tucker and Jim Rolin of VideoFax, it looks pretty sweet. Almost all of the screens are live – only a couple were composited and only because of licensing issues.

While I agree that Flash will soon be replaced as the dominant media player for video on the internet, I think it’s shortsighted of Apple to completely ignore it on the iPhone OS. Flash was the technology that stretched the boundaries of what was possible for the internet in the past and I think it’s the leading contender for that role in the future as well. As an example – how else would someone create something like Chat Roulette?

Personally I would like to have the choice – a well tended, walled garden or the unknown wilderness. There is beauty and wonder to be found in each.